MTR and Julie Gale at Getting Real launch Melbourne Sept 16, 2009 – Pic: Melbourne Weekly Almost 10 years ago one of the most remarkable women I have ever had the privilege to meet came into my life. I don’t recall exactly where we were when we met. But I do recall a number of […]
The fourth and final launch of Big Porn Inc: Exposing the harms of the global porn industry took place in the Jubilee Room, Parliament House, Sydney, last Thursday. One hundred people attended and heard seven contributors speak about their chapters in the book: myself, co-editor Dr Abigail Bray, Spinifex Press publishers Dr Susan Hawthorne and […]
War of Words Christine Jackman, The Weekend Australian, June 04, 2011 THIS much Nina Funnell knows about the man who held a box-cutter blade to her throat on an autumn’s evening in May 2007. She knows he had an olive complexion. She knows he had bushy eyebrows and a five o’clock shadow. She knows – […]
Nina Funnell writes that girls are learning to read their value as a person in terms of how their physical appearance is received by others. “Destiny enjoys singing, dancing and, of course, pageantry” announces the beauty pageant’s MC as a made-up blonde in a white gown sashays across the stage. Did I mention that Destiny […]
Media Release Objecting to objectification: Collective Shout celebrates a year of wins Collective Shout, a dynamic grassroots campaigning movement against the objectification of women and sexualisation of girls, celebrates its first birthday in Brisbane this weekend. Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation, was founded to target corporations, advertisers, marketers and media which objectify […]
