On 5 June 2021, a Facebook update from Sally read, “this is … potentially the hardest [post] I’ve ever written – but I have decided to rescind my decision to stand for election to Lismore City Council.” After weeks of being followed in the street, having rocks thrown through her windows, and daily defamatory posts on social media, the emotional toll of being a young female voice in the community became too much. Sally was very vocal about the harassment and abuse toward her throughout the entirety of her campaign, but the extent of it was largely unexpected.
Tag: Sexism
Tales of a Sexless Second Year: Abstinence? A Good Thing?
The thing is, if I have sex with a guy and he doesn’t immediately fall in love with me, I’m annoyed. If I have sex with a guy and he does immediately fall in love with me, I’m annoyed. Tell me how I am meant to win here? I realised that this was because I craved the validation of guys telling me: “You’re the only one I can really open up to.” Until I registered the fact that I was only there to make them feel special and solve all their problems.
“I wonder if I’d get there quicker if I was a man”: Feminism, Girl Power and Pop Music
Music is universal; it can simultaneously bring people together and tear them apart. Recently in pop music, we have seen a rising emphasis on the importance of feminism, sisterhood, and girl power.
#MeToo, #KuToo, and #MiTu: What Does the Movement Mean in My Country?
The rampant abuse of power by men in executive positions that #MeToo revealed, opened a new conversation about the intersection of gender and power.
Father of Newborn Daughter Handed Get-Out-of-Sexism-Free Card
We all know that men seem to just have *the audacity*: a quality apparently inherent to the fabric of the straight-white-male biology.
Mountain Girls
“I thought that if you could leave and learn and see beyond your own back fence you were somehow no longer trapped like cattle in the run.”
Same Old Dirty Laundry: Scott Morrison’s Continued Let Down of Australian Women
The Liberal Party has never been interested in women. The last time it was, Menzies was in charge; but even then, it was only the stay-at-home wives who got a look in.
Marching 4 Justice
Neve Traynor reflects on Monday’s March4Justice in Canberra.
“This Is So Good You Wouldn’t Know It Was Done by a Woman”
“The names Gentileschi, Nelli, Hoch, Schendel, Hanworth and Frankenthaler remain unfamiliar to most — and googling ‘women artists in history’ presents results almost entirely about ‘the one’s history forgot’.”
(Wo)Man in the Moon
“In the tale of the Man in the Moon, we see evidence of the deeply-rooted prejudice held against women in the field of astronomy.”