Return visit planned for August At last, re-building our work post the 2020 losses, Daniel and I landed in WA April 19 for two weeks of engagements in Perth and Albany involving seven private schools and an independent school counsellor’s seminar. Fortunately, the snap lock down occurred over the Anzac Day long weekend, and, while […]
Following publication of my ABC piece ‘Consent education does not stand a chance against pornography’, I have been interviewed for a number of ABC programs and podcasts. ABC Religion and Ethics Report March 17 MTR talking sexual assault, harassment, coercion and the role of pornography as a contributing driver of violence against women with host Andrew […]
It will be wonderful to be able to return to Toowoomba, QLD, and Adelaide and Murray Bridge, S.A, to address students, teachers and parents in October and November. Toowoomba Parents, carers, teachers and guardians are invited to the event below this Monday, kindly hosted by The Glennie School, at which I have had the pleasure […]
What a year! Our team is tired…but elated. This year has seen us achieve some of our biggest wins in our 10-year history: and you helped us do it. Here are some of our wins and highlights from 2019: Following our campaign calling on 7-Eleven to withdraw unrestricted pornographic magazines that sexualise teen girls and […]
The shame is not with young women’s sexuality but with a culture that teaches them that is their only value Melinda Tankard Reist Everywhere girls turn they absorb messages which tell them their value and worth is in their sexual allure and their ability to attract sexual attention. Messages from media and popular culture tell […]
“You’re not going to have good, considerate, emotionally-literate boys when you present them with an idea that girls exist for their gratification and pleasure” I was very pleased to be invited to discuss my work addressing sexualisation, objectification and harms of pornography and porn culture with former deputy PM John Anderson, for his ‘Conversations’ podcast. […]
‘What do these words say about us, especially us men, and the culture we have created and the attitudes we have adopted?’ MTR and Daniel Principe at Macquarie College, Newcastle My friend and co-worker Daniel Principe posted this eloquent reflection on his experience joining me in engaging with students at Macquarie College Newcastle on Facebook […]
‘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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
‘The laser focused Melinda Tankard Reist offers the key to her unwavering purpose, so that we can unlock our own’ What a pleasure it was to be interviewed by dynamo Karen James, a former banking executive who turned her back on it all to help others find their purpose. Founder of the On Purpose Hub, […]
