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 […]
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 […]
Today I head to the US to speak in LA, Washington and Philadelphia. In LA I’ll be addressing a gathering of abolitionists connected with the Salvos. Then to Washington to address the Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Global Summit, April 4-7, run by my friends at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. From there to […]
Meet Ethan. He’s 15 and a student at Knox Grammar School, Sydney. Ethan did something no 15-year-old boys have ever done, in my years as a speaker. He heard me speak at the Justice Conference in Melbourne late last year and decided his fellow classmates needed to hear my message. So what did he do? […]
An open letter to Weight Watchers International By Sarah McMahon I discovered today that Weight Watchers International is offering free membership for teenagers aged 13 to 17 under the guise of “helping the development of healthy habits at a critical life stage”. This was announced this week, simultaneously with their three year “2020 goal”, which […]
Porn images are robbing children of their innocence, says Kerryn Baird, wife of Premier CLARISSA BYE, Social Affairs Reporter, The Daily Telegraph CHILDHOOD innocence is being swamped by a tidal wave of pornographic imagery, with NSW’s First Lady Kerryn Baird fearing we have “lost the argument” over sexually explicit material. Kerryn Baird has a new […]
‘The proliferation and globalisation of hypersexualised imagery and pornographic themes has led to destructive ideas about sex and makes healthy sexual exploration almost impossible…the weight of evidence about the trends in online consumption of pornography by children and young people, and the harms associated with online consumption of pornography, point to the urgent need to […]
I’m quoted in this article by Kasey Edwards in Daily Life today: …This is symptomatic of a broader attitude where sex is regarded as solely about male pleasure and male desires. The man decides and the woman provides. Women having sex for their own pleasure is rarely portrayed in popular culture, porn or even sex […]
How online porn is warping the behaviour of boys with girls When Big Porn Inc: Exposing the harms of the global pornography industry first came out, people would tell me they would read a chapter, then take a break, then read another chapter. Others would say they were too shocked to finish it. It was too […]
The Reddit question no one should ignore Kasey Edwards Thousands of women have shared stories of the first time they were targeted sexually by men, with some saying they were as young as eight years old. The women were responding to a question posted on the popular social networking and news site Reddit which asked ‘Women […]
‘The ultimate guide to being yourself’ is about self-acceptance. It offers girls three lessons in how to be themselves: Fall in love with you; Quit Faking It and Get inspired, not obsessed. The first encourages girls to recognise and love themselves for their unique traits. This is well and good. But I don’t think we […]
The two most important articles in this issue are on anxiety and the importance of sleep. Anxiety appears to be a plague on our girls right now. ‘Feeling anxious? How to deal when your worries take over your life’ looks at the symptoms of anxiety and how to recognise when it is impacting on your […]
