The impossible goal of pursuing perfection: Dolly September review

20 Sep 2013

Gen Next

‘The ultimate guide to being yourself’ is about self-acceptance. It offers girls three lessons in how to be themselves: Fall...

‘I often wonder if men and boys ever consider the damage their unwanted hand on the unwilling bodies and souls of girls does to us’ – child abuse survivor

15 Sep 2013

News

…and one of the bravest women I have ever met Last month I posted a piece by a woman named...

Women degraded and used as commodities: the terrible impacts of the objectification of women

12 Sep 2013

News

‘In a society where media is the most persuasive force shaping cultural norms, the collective message that our young women...

Girl Achieving: Girlfriend Magazine September

10 Sep 2013

Gen Next

As always, when I review teen girls’ magazines I look for the girls who are taking up their rightful place...

Sexualisation is all in a day’s twerk for some pop stars

8 Sep 2013

Fairfax

In the pornified music world populated by churned-out female pop stars pumping and grinding to a sexualised script, cavorting semi-naked...

All these women might still be alive if their killers had not been paroled

25 Aug 2013

Fairfax

Parole board failures a matter of life and death When murderer John Coombes was convicted for a second murder, what...