Why would I want to appear on Q&A following such an outrage against freethinking women? Australia’s first terror suspect, Zaky Mallah, was given a platform from ABC’s Q&A audience Monday night. While there has been significant attention given to his suspected terrorist activities, his conviction and jail term for threatening to kill an ASIO officer […]
‘What I’ve learned from Twitter is that it doesn’t matter what I do. It didn’t matter what I’ve done, what I’ve said, what I’ve written. My body of work doesn’t matter and my actual thoughts don’t matter. Not to those who have decided to hate me’ I’ve got a problem with Meghan Murphy and her […]
What’s the point of a National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women when we welcome artists who profit from promoting it?
US Rapper Tyler The Creator unleashes a torrent of hate on Sydney activist By Talitha Stone I’m a 23-year-old psychology student from Sydney and in June this year, I was subjected to a horrific torrent of abusive tweets from fans of touring American rapper Tyler Okonma. I challenged Okonma’s lyrics which encourage rape and violence […]
The price you pay for activism – but it won’t stop us [Warning: threatening, sexually violent language] Caitlin Roper, my fellow Collective Shout activist in the West, has put together this montage of some of the abusive and threatening tweets we receive on a regular basis. We want people to know just how bad this […]
Twitter: Add a Report Abuse Button to tweets My friend and fellow Collective Shout activist Talitha Stone has launched this petition calling on Twitter to add a report abuse button to tweets. Please support this brave and gutsy young woman. In June this year, I was subjected to an horrific torrent of abusive tweets from […]
US RAP artist Tyler the Creator sings songs advocating rape and extreme violence against women. His lyrics include themes of murder, genital mutilation, stuffing women into car boots, trapping them in his basement, raping their corpses and burying their bodies. In Tyler’s world, women are sluts, bitches and ‘‘hos’’ who invite criminal acts. They have […]
Rapper promotes rape and violence against women. We don’t want him here. As published on Collective Shout *TRIGGER WARNING* Graphic descriptions of rape and violence against women Collective Shout is urgently calling on the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Hon. Brendan O’Connor, to revoke the visa granted to Tyler the Creator. Rapper ‘Tyler the Creator’ […]
Your taxes at work: harassment and intimidation treated with indifference – why I went public There’s a feature piece in The Australian today by Chris Kenny. ‘The Unkindness of Strangers’, subtitled: ‘When an ugly post goes viral via social media, victims find there is very little they can do about it.’ Sexism, pornography, social media, […]
When will QUT take action against James Silverwood and Dominic Terry? A petition was recently launched to pressure Facebook to remove a page called ’12 year old slut memes.’ The page, used to bully, humiliate, expose and shame young girls had attracted over 200,000 ‘likers.’ Thousands of complaints have been submitted to Facebook via the […]
In a week in which I was described as everything from ugly, to jealous, to Hitler (I’m sure Nazi is just around the corner), and in which my fellow activists were also attacked for our campaign against the Lingerie Football League, some words of wisdom from the Women’s Media Center. Couldn’t have put it better […]
By Renate Klein and Susan Hawthorne Since the publication of Rachael Hills’s article “Who’s Afraid of Melinda Tankard Reist” (and see her reflections two weeks later) at least ten on-line and print media articles have joined in a public dissection and commentary along the lines of, “she’s a conservative religious fundamentalist” and “she’s pro-life and […]
