Grassroots campaigning movement Collective Shout has exposed online marketplace Amazon selling multiple books promoting rape and sexual torture of women and children. This comes days after the company was forced to remove pedophile-themed baby onesies with the slogans “Daddy’s little f**k toy” and “I just look illegal”. Campaigns manager Caitlin Roper said that the titles […]
And its because you bothered to speak out On Friday afternoon I took a photo of a Brisbane City Council bus with the words “Get off in Thailand” emblazoned across the entire side of the vehicle. The response was swift and condemning when I shared the image on Twitter and Collective Shout’s Facebook page shortly […]
Earlier this year news broke that festival promoter Adrian Buckley had made the executive decision to ban Wicked Camper vans from all future Wollombi music festival events. Adrian spoke to Collective Shout co-founder Melinda Tankard Reist and explained that Wicked Campers does not represent any of their festival values. They wanted to send a strong […]
‘Porn is presenting rough sex and anal sex as something normal, and teenage boys are learning from their screens that it often involves violence and humiliation’ – Nikki Gemmell How encouraging to read the concerns a number of us have been attempting to raise for close on a decade now, in our national broadsheet The […]
Collective Shout is pleased to be part of this joint statement released today. State governments must take urgent action to bring Wicked Campers into line. Queensland, Tasmania and the ACT have all taken legislative measures to force Wicked’s compliance – or risk de-registration. It’s now South Australia’s turn to ban mobile misogyny.
Urgent call to action! Tomorrow morning we are calling on all our South Australian supporters to join together in a ‘Collective Shout’ against Wicked Campers. There will be a gathering at 9:30am on the steps of Parliament House, right before a bill will be debated to deregister vans that breach the advertising code. Between now […]
‘As a parent, we worry most about sex offenders exploiting and abusing our children in private spaces…But it’s not individual strangers who are corrupting our boys…It’s a billion dollar industry, intent on finding the next generation of customers at increasingly younger ages’– Jas Rawlinson Brisbane-based freelance writer, mental health advocate and author of the recently […]
What happened to your body image and self-respect policies Girlfriend mag? In the year 2013, I wrote the ‘Girl Mag Watch’ reviews for Generation Next, which were published on the website of the youth mental health social enterprise and in its newsletters to thousands of subscribers. I reviewed Girlfriend and Dolly (an example of a review can be found here). […]
The heartbreaking realities of dealing with sexist treatment every day I’ve been documenting the experiences of girls everywhere I travel. I write down what they tell me (for example, as documented in this piece ‘Growing up in Pornland: Girls have had it with porn conditioned boys’ published by the ABC). Increasingly, with their permission, I’m […]
Youth advocate shares views on the sexualisation of our kids [UPDATE] OPEN INVITATION – Parents and Community Session Hosted by Coolum Beach Christian College This is a free event with child minding provided. Click here for more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/680485449009905 As published in the Sunshine Coast Daily SUNSHINE Coast parents and carers who wonder if their children are growing […]
Free from ‘toxic chemicals.’ Not free from toxic messages Last week, 15 girls aged 14-16, and involved with Fusion Mornington Peninsula’s Real Girls program, took on Australian make-up and skincare brand Frank Body over its lip and cheek ‘Send Nudes’ product. Fusion Mornington Peninsula June 7 at 5:50pm Dear Frank Body, I am speaking on […]
Guest post by Jessica Eaton via Collective Shout This blog contains a discussion of violent language to discuss sex, sexual violence and porn. It also contains the titles to real porn films that a lot of people may find disturbing. Please take care of yourself whilst reading this and seek support after reading if you need […]
