The Hunt family murder-suicide. This is what needs to be said. Nina Funnell perfectly echoes my own thoughts on the murder of a mother and three children by their husband and father. By NINA FUNNELL Trigger warning: This post deals with violence against women and children, suicide and other distressing topics. It may be triggering […]
Inscribing Violence: murder and sexual abuse so banal it’s art WARNING. Graphic image/content The end of this week has left me reeling. How to even describe the latest violence against women horror exhibits? How to name the casual everyday way these mementos from the frontline of the war on women have become normalised in our […]
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 […]
Sign petition – say no to eroticised violence against women On December 10, I wrote an opinion piece titled ‘Who says female corpses aren’t sexy?’ for ABC The Drum Unleashed, reprinted here the same day. The piece has so far received 1086 comments (many helpfully informing me I am mentally ill and hung up about sex). Here’s an […]
