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 […]
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 […]
Sign the petition – together we can end Wicked Campers’ mobile misogyny once and for all Wicked Campers are notorious for their sexually explicit slogans and imagery, even advocating rape and murder. Ad Standards has upheld complaints against Wicked Campers’ slogans and imagery more than 80 times; but with no power to enforce rulings and […]
Collective Shout welcomes new laws: calls for other states for follow QLD lead We at Collective Shout have been protesting Wicked Camper’s misogynist, sexist, violent and rapey car slogans for almost nine years. At a time when we are ‘Counting Dead Women’ here and globally, the boys at Wicked come up with slogans like this: […]
QLD and TAS say Wicked in breach of anti-discrimination laws My colleagues and I have been speaking out against Wicked Campers for around eight years. It’s taken a long time to build momentum. But now, at least, we are getting some traction at state level with the Queensland Government condemning the camper van company, and […]
Attempt to silence critics fails: trends on twitter So there I was relaxing on the couch under two blankets wearing two pairs of socks and my puffy jacket, with a block of chocolate and LSD* beside me, unwinding to the Chaser’s Election Desk on ABC TV Wednesday night. Suddenly, I see what looks like classic […]
Governments and regulatory bodies continue to ignore the culture drivers fueling sexist attitudes and behaviours This week we’ve had big name global clothing companies General Pants, Calvin Klein and Queensland fast food eatery, Burger Urge, in our sights. GP and CK are repeat offenders. It’s the first time this slimy burger chain has come to […]
As published at Collective Shout Collective Shout’s Coralie Alison and Sydney activist and educator Paula Orbea asked Lonely Planet to stop promoting misogynist camper van hire company. Lonely Planet responded: “thanks for flagging this important matter, Coralie. Listing was removed from our Australian 18 guide (produced last year; hitting shelves in Nov)…the listing still on […]
People power forces Wicked Campers to withdraw misogynistic marketing Wicked Campers withdraws sexist slogans from vans after 110,000-strong change.org petition; petition starter Paula Orbea says it’s a “people powered win against sexism” The campervan company at the centre of a people-powered revolt over sexist van slogans has today issued an apology and committed to reviewing […]
Wicked assigns women and girls to a place of inferiority: Dr Helen Pringle …Wicked Campers is a serial offender at the Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB), which has formally considered dozens of complaints against the company since 2008. What is most striking over that time is that the ASB has completely failed to counter the campaign of derision […]
Thousands support Sydney mother’s petition against misogynistic Wicked Campers. Wicked Campers are known for their campervans emblazoned with sexist and demeaning slogans.We’ve written about them before. One of our supporters, blogger and activist Paula Orbea, decided she had had enough after her young daughter was exposed to a certain van while out with her grandparents. She […]
