Page 28 – Melinda Tankard Reist

2GB, Australians Against Child Beauty Pageants, body image, Change.org, child beauty pageants, child development, child exploitation, child welfare, collective shout, essential kids, Federal Children’s Commissioner, Junkee, Sexualisation, Universal Royalty Pageants

14 Jul 2014

Pitting little girls against each other in a competition based on lookism: Keep US child beauty pageants out!

Did you even know Australia had a Federal Children’s Commissioner? We don’t hear that much from her – so thought...

adolescents, British Medical Journal, Edmonton Journal, exploitation, online pornography, P*rnography, pornification, prostitution, relationships, sex, sex industry, sexuality

10 Jul 2014

Pornography is a public health hazard

This year I’ve had the privilege of addressing a few thousand medical professionals at one-day seminars run by Health Ed...

body image, collective shout, education, objectification, P*rnography, porn harms, relationships, schools, sex, Sexting, sexual development, Sexualisation, sexuality, teens, W.A, W.A Parliament

6 Jul 2014

Wolfwhistling is not a compliment. Stop pressuring us for nude pics. Don’t joke about our bodies. What girls want boys to know: personal appeals from the heart

Profound experiences with W.A students on my last roadtrip. Last month I spoke 27 times in three and a half...

Black Throne Tattoo, Change.org, Counting Dead Women, Dunlop, misogyny, murder, rape, Ryan Parsons, sexism, sexual assault, status of women, tattoo artist, tattooing, violence against women, women in sport

4 Jul 2014

Naked murdered woman in wheelie bin tattoo, decapitated female golf tees: more exhibits from the war on women frontline

Inscribing Violence: murder and sexual abuse so banal it’s art WARNING. Graphic image/content The end of this week has left...

1 Jul 2014

If only girls would stay out of harm’s way they wouldn’t get hurt

Another take-no-prisoners piece from Collective Shout’s W.A director Caitlin Roper. This piece originally appeared at Everyday Victim Blaming....

collective shout, rap music, sexual harassment, Snoop Dogg, Talitha Stone. Change.org, Tyler the Creator, violence against women

25 Jun 2014

Young activist Talitha Stone inspiring other women to be brave.

An anti-violence activist who stood up to superstar rappers Tyler the Creator and Snoop Lion (aka Snoop Dogg) has revealed...

A Voice for Men, betty mclellan, Caitlin Roper, collective shout, Collective Shout Townsville, Men’s Rights Activists, MRA’s, online opinion, rape, sexual harassment, status of women, villification, violence against women

12 Jun 2014

‘Bash a bitch’: How Men’s Rights Activists Hate Women

A Voice for Men: harassing and abusing those who defend women Last week I published a piece on Online Opinion...

amnesty international, Change.org, exited women., human rights, indigenous women, prostitution, prostitution survivors, sex industry, trafficking, women

12 Jun 2014

How Amnesty International is harming prostitution survivors

The human rights organisation has forgotten the importance of procedural human rights Prostitution is not just an intellectual concept to...

facebook, Fresh Boost, Fresh One, objectification, sexism

6 Jun 2014

Fresh One under fire for pornographic coffee ads

Facebook users criticise coffee company for ‘outdated’ and ‘misogynistic’ advertising UPDATE! Coffee bean distributor roasted over porn-inspired ads takes down...

abuse, Caitlin Roper, collective shout, domestic violence, male violence, online opinion, rape, status of women, violence against women

6 Jun 2014

How male perpetrators of violence against women are made invisible: Caitlin Roper in On Line Opinion

Australia is in the midst of a public health crisis. Men’s violence against women and children has reached epidemic proportions....

amnesty international, Cambodia, child sexual abuse, child sexual exploitation, human rights, prostitution, Prostitution Research and Education, sex industry, sex trade, sex trafficking, Somaly Mam, status of women, trafficking

3 Jun 2014

The Somaly Mam revelations cannot be used to erase the horrors of the global sex trade

There is no excuse to deny or ignore the undeniable exploitation of countless human beings People have been asking me...

amnesty international, Change.org, exited women., human rights, indigenous women, prostitution, prostitution survivors, sex industry, trafficking, women

2 Jun 2014

An indigenous ex-prostituted woman appeals to Amnesty: don’t support prostitution

Indigenous women and girls will be more vulnerable to prostitution and trafficking if Amnesty’s draft policy is endorsed Petitioning International...