18 Jul 2013

News

Dark undercurrents of teenage girls’ selfies

Pouty self portraits have turned boy-girl relations into a cut-throat sexual rat race. If social media only caused narcissism, it...

17 Jul 2013

News

Willow Smith has a great voice. But should she be singing about a ‘summer fling’ at 12?

Is this Willow expressing herself? Or the coming-of-age fantasy invented for her by adults? Willow Smith is 12. In her...

16 Jul 2013

News

Surfer Cori Schumacher: Who is losing when sex is sold?

‘Roxy and the “sex sells” agenda of surf corporations a la Big Surfing are completely disconnected from what we know...

15 Jul 2013

Fairfax, MTR in the Media

The ugly truth is rules are different for girls in sport

My first column with Fairfax As a teenage girl growing up in country Victoria, I was an avid reader of...

12 Jul 2013

News

The best defence of breastfeeding in public ever

Hollie McNish rejects public shaming for breastfeeding her daughter I have breastfed four babies. I’m a big fan. I know...

11 Jul 2013

News

The publicly visible spread of casual porn

Perhaps we should decide, as a society, whether we are happy to allow two groups – media moguls and the...

25 Jun 2013

MTR

Jackson Katz: Violence against women—it’s a men’s issue

We need more men like this For the past few weeks I’ve been addressing female and male students around the...

23 Jun 2013

MTR

I’m telling your mum: How one young woman dobbed in an online harasser – to his mum!

21 Jun 2013

Gen Next

Dolly June: Skip straight to the second half of the mag for anything of substance

Readers wanting something of substance from Dolly’s June issue would do best to skip the first half and go straight...

16 Jun 2013

Gen Next, MTR

Real life stories that bring you to tears: Girlfriend June

“Why are you crying mum?” “Because I’m reading Girlfriend”. An unexpected response, perhaps, from an (allegedly) grown woman. But a...

14 Jun 2013

MTR in the Media

Tax office admits it gave ‘unacceptable’ response to MTR complaint re sexist tweet

Apologies for the way I was treated and undertakings to improve It wasn’t easy doing this. But now the Australian...

9 Jun 2013

News, Take Action

“You f—ing whore”: What happened when a young activist took on a US rapper

Abused, threatened, but Talitha Stone won’t be stopped One of the great rewards of this work is seeing a growing...