Book reviews – Page 15 – Melinda Tankard Reist

children, collective shout, corporate social responsibility, CSR, discrimination against women, families, Maccas, McDonalds, music videos, objectification, Sexualisation, status of women

4 Jul 2016

Calling Out Maccas on sexualized vids: like some soft porn with your fries kid?

Sign our petition! Maccas wants to be seen as a family-friendly restaurant and claims to care about the communities in...

ABCTV, Chaser, Chaser Election Desk, collective shout, Liberal Democrats, misogyny, Senator David Leyonhjelm, sexism, Twitter, Wicked Campers, Wicked Pickets

1 Jul 2016

Free speech defender Sen David Leyonhjelm tells MTR to ‘Shut the F…k Up’ following Chaser prank

Attempt to silence critics fails: trends on twitter So there I was relaxing on the couch under two blankets wearing...

brothels, France, human rights, Nordic model, objectification, prostitution, Prostitution Narratives, sex industry, status of women, Sweden

26 Jun 2016

Criminalising sex buyers, reducing demand, trafficking and violence: Swedish human rights experts in Australia advocating for The Nordic Model

Why Australia should adopt the Nordic Model International lawyers, Ruth Nordstrom and Rebecca Ahlstrand, are globally recognized legal experts on...

children, collective shout, explicit imagery, It’s Time We talked, Maree Crabbe, P*rnography, relationships, sex, sex industry, sexuality, teens, The Porn Factor, young people

15 Jun 2016

A quick, easy and anonymous sexual charge: New film shows how porn has become the default sexuality educator for young people

An interview with Porn Factor director Maree Crabbe Maree, there’s lots of things you could make films about. What led...

child sexual abuse, cyber bullying, cybercrime, cyberhate, indigenous women, paedophilia, vilification

12 Jun 2016

The brave indigenous women who exposed child sexual abuse in their community: and the shocking backlash

We stand beside our indigenous sisters I heard this ABC Background Briefing Program while driving this morning. I arrived at...

‘Prostitution Narratives exposes the suffering, torture and degradation of women in ways most don’t want to think about’

ANZ lit blog interview with Caroline Norma and MTR I was a bit taken aback by the publicity email about...

collective shout, election, Politics

1 Jun 2016

How to influence your candidate this election

The Federal election is scheduled for July 2. Now is the perfect time to let your local candidate know how...

collective shout, domestic violence, gender inequality, submissions

1 Jun 2016

How objectification of women drives violence against them: Collective Shout submission

Recommendations from Collective Shout in this submission include: The objectification of women be made central to government policy makers in...

ABC 4 Corners, babies, baby making, egg harvesting, embryos, fertility, infertility, infertility industry, IVF, reproductive health, Women's Bioethics Alliance, women's health

1 Jun 2016

‘The Baby Business’: 4 Corners exposes baby making commercialisation

MTR comments on fertility industry’s exploitation of women Click on image below to go to the video on the ABC...

Hope, Not Death: Euthanasia is No Response to Sexual Abuse

By Melinda Tankard Reist Genevieve, 33, was sexually abused by men when she was between the ages of 2 and...

What are we teaching boys about women when soccer clubs fundraise like this?

The Para Hills West Soccer Club in Adelaide seems to have missed the memo. By Coralie Alison With a new...

‘I think a bullet might hurt a little bit less than this loneliness’: The Instagram fad normalising suicidal yearnings as fashionable

‘The glamorising and approval of teen girl audiences of the captioned desire to depart from life is surely one of...