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Advertising, Amanda Rishworth, body image, children, Deb O’Neill, Eating Disorders, emma rush, Letting the children be children, marketing, media literacy, self-esteem, Sexualisation, UK

29 Feb 2012

MPs speak against the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood

Amanda Rishworth moves Notice of Motion in House of Representatives Earlier this month Federal Member for Kingston (S.A), Amanda Rishworth,...

anorexia nervosa, body image, BodyMatters Australisia, bulimia, dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Disorders Victoria, food, Harriet Brown, Huffington Post, pro ana websites, pro mia websites, thinspiration, weight loss

27 Feb 2012

How Thinspiration Sites Hurt Us: recovering eating disorder teen speaks out

As a young woman in recovery, seeing others succumb to such behaviours is triggering, distressing and saddening Rebekah McAlinden Three...

Change, city beach, collective shout, objectification, P*rnography, pornification, Sexualisation, switchfoot, TITS, violence against women, youth

23 Feb 2012

‘Talk Shit Get Hit’: Why is Switchfoot supporting a company that sells this?

‘Shine your light by taking a stand, not by taking part. It’s not too late’ US supergroup Switchfoot will be...

city beach, collective shout, switchfoot

21 Feb 2012

Collective Shout calls on Switchfoot to pull out of City Beach event

PRESS RELEASE Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation, a grassroots campaigning movement is calling on Switchfoot to...

animal liberation, animal rights, Change, misogyny, objectification, PETA, sexism, vegan, violence against women

20 Feb 2012

Change Petition: Tell PETA to stop eroticising violence against women

Sign here See also: PETA pimps its ethics, MTR, Weekly Times

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activism, Advertising, collective shout, culture jamming, Mossimo, objectification, sexism

17 Feb 2012

Vote against Mossimo’s Peep Show sexism

Vote for ‘Naughty Nicole’ and ‘Classy Casey’ and against sexist crap There are just so many things I love about...

adultification, body image, Caroline Norma, children, emma rush, fashion, national times, Sexualisation, Witchery

16 Feb 2012

Sexed up tween advertising shows fashion needs to grow up

‘Corporate paedophilia’ is a worrying global trend on the rise. For those who might have missed it, Witchery has just...

emma rush, P*rnography, relationships, sex education, sexuality, teenagers, The Age

8 Feb 2012

Teens have hearts, not just bodies

‘Encouraging teens to wait until they feel ready for sex is not to promote oppression. It is to promote empowerment’...

Channel 7 Morning Show, P*rnography, relationships, sex education, sexuality, teenagers, The Age

7 Feb 2012

Should teens read more porn?

Do young people need to read porn themed novels? That was the argument put by Age social affairs writer Michelle...

Austereo, kyle and jackie o, Kyle Sandilands

6 Feb 2012

100 sponsors withdraw from Jackie and Kyle Show

Sack Vile Kyle campaign grows in strength On 16th January 2012 Kyle Sandilands returned to his radio program, the Kyle...

Christabel Pankhurst, Emily Wilding Davison, Eva Cox, feminism, Helen Pringle, Laura Wilson, Mary Richardson, objectification, P*rnography, Sexualisation, Suffragettes

27 Jan 2012

Killjoys, Wowser and The P-rn Wars

I found this piece by Dr Helen Pringle, ‘Killjoys, Wowser and The P-rn Wars’ in New Matilda so inspiring. I...