Fueling sexist attitudes which contribute to violence against women Last month I responded to a piece by Brendan O’Neill, in The Australian, critical of our campaign against Tyler the Creator and Zoo magazine. It appeared in the on-line version at News.com (paywall means only subscribers would see it). Following this, my colleague Caitlin Roper took […]
Inciting Violence Against Women Isn’t ‘Art’, and Tyler the Creator Shouldn’t Be Granted Entry By Caitlin Roper “It’s just irony” seems to be the go-to defence for misogyny these days. As a female activist for grassroots organisation Collective Shout, I hear it all the time. After the global backlash to Kanye West’s sexually violent […]
Self confessed pimp Snoop Dogg to tour Australia in 2014 As published on Collective Shout A petition has been launched on Change.org calling for the Minister for Immigration Scott Morrison to revoke the visa of US rapper and self-confessed pimp Snoop Dogg aka Snoop Lion aka Calvin Broadus. Snoop Dogg’s lyrics glorify violence against women. […]
MTR in Sunday Herald Sun FOR a long time it was said the ‘‘jury was out’’ on the impact of media violence. Not any more. A special commission set up by the International Society for Research on Aggression comprising 12 international authors and endorsed by 250 of the world’s leading researchers has concluded that exposure […]
Why won’t Kanye West repond to outrage against Monster video? Mass desensitisation to abuse and exploitation I’m not interested at all in going after Kanye West for the sake of it. That would be very boring. It specifically relates to the carnival of carnage he has created, the ‘rape scenario set to a soundtrack’, the […]
What’s entertaining about women in lingerie hanging by their necks on chains? What’s artful about images of drugged, unconscious women about to be sexually assaulted? Nothing. It’s misogyny, graphic and simple. Instead of artistic expression, political and social commentator Zerlina Maxwell described Kanye West’s music video for Monster as “a rape scenario set to a […]
I’ll take mine dead, thanks. Horror porn is not ironic. [Trigger warning for victims of violence] When you look at this image, what do you see? An ambigious, complicated narrative? A post-modern analysis of culture? A man who loves his mothers and sistas? And what about this one? Do you see poetic form? Linear narrative […]
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 […]
Who says female corpses aren’t sexy? Two dead women in lingerie swing back and forth from the ceiling from a chain around their necks. Two young women are slumped on a silk-sheeted bed, like corseted lifeless mannequins. A man advances on them. His intentions are clear. Another woman in fetishized clothing lies spread-eagled on […]
