We Demand Amnesty International Listen to Survivors and Reject the Proposal to Decriminalize All Aspects of Prostitution Petition by Jennifer Kim – Vancouver, Canada This leaked Amnesty International proposal advocating for the full decriminalization of all aspects of prostitution violates the basic human rights and dignities of prostituted individuals. The proposal denies the inextricable link between prostitution […]
Framing Gillard in pornographic terms is part of a concerted backlash against women in power, argues Dr Helen Pringle This is an edited extract from an essay by Dr Helen Pringle in Bewitched and Bedevilled: Women Write the Gillard Years, a collection of essays published by Hardie Grant and edited by Samantha Trenoweth. This book, write the […]
Why I want to stop Snoop Dog from visiting Australia I am a 24 year old activist with grassroots organisation Collective Shout. You may know me from my anti-violence campaign against US rapper, Tyler the Creator who verbally abused me at his all ages Sydney show last year. Just before Christmas I learned that Snoop […]
Another example of the abuse women receive for speaking out By Caitlin Roper Last week, The Australian newspaper reported that Channel Seven’s 7mate would be broadcasting the Lingerie Football. To all those who are unfamiliar with this spectacle, yes, it is exactly what it sounds like. While many accomplished women’s sporting leagues in Australia are […]
Parole board failures a matter of life and death When murderer John Coombes was convicted for a second murder, what did the Adult Parole Board do? Let him out of prison in 2007 to murder his friend, foster mother Raechel Betts, and throw her body parts into the sea. When violent offender William Watkins was […]
‘I hadn’t anticipated the massive backlash from the boys’ … I started to notice how much the girls at my school suffer because of the pressures associated with our gender. Many of the girls have eating disorders, some have had peers heavily pressure them into sexual acts, others suffer in emotionally abusive relationships where they are […]
Apologies for the way I was treated and undertakings to improve It wasn’t easy doing this. But now the Australian Public Service Commission and the Australian Tax Office is on the record on oath saying that policy and practice will change for the better. This is how the ABC reported it: The head of the […]
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’ […]
A gutsy victory for all women So encouraged to see what can happen when women rise up and declare they’ve had enough. I hope these accounts inspire further action to stop online violence against women and girls. “This is the story of a feminist takeover,” wrote the author of Feminist at Sea, a WordPress blog. […]
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, […]
More misogyny from Zoo as Ad Standards Board ruling ignored We’ve helped bring down Zoo weekly’s ‘hottest asylum seeker’ competition, made complaints to the Ad Standards Board about its sexist ads on Facebook and called on Coles and Woolworths supermarkets to stop selling the sexist mag. But Zoo refuses to change, ignoring a recent ruling […]
