Witchery: recruiting children as adult-like models

Fashion company ignores experts – again Witchery just doesn’t get it. Or chooses not to. Last year a number of child development experts expressed concern about a Witchery campaign which presented adultified images of children modelling its fashions. Emma Rush, lecturer in ethics at Charles Sturt University and lead author of two significant reports on […]

‘The writing project gave me a voice’: support women writers in Afghanistan

Do something good for Christmas. Support Sharni Montgomery’s campaign for Afghani women Australian woman Sharni Montgomery is giving her all to help women writers in Afghanistan, through a fund-raising run next month to raise money for the Afghan Women’s Writing Project. Sharni , who describes herself  as living with a cowboy and her son in […]

Children are not miniature adults or fashion accessories: Emma Rush

Nothing about the Witchery images recognises that children are anything other than miniaturised adults. The images invite you to ‘read’ the children as adults It’s always a pleasure to publish the work of Dr Emma Rush. A lecturer in ethics at Charles Sturt University, Emma is lead author of two significant reports on the sexualisation […]