News & Views The emotional labour of Christmas makes the festive season exhausting Women are fastidiously working behind the scenes to make Christmas-time special for their loved ones, often at the cost of their own sanity.
News & Views Yummy Mummies: the reality TV show we really don’t need? Now into its second season, Yummy Mummies pedals some particularly damaging tropes about woman- and motherhood that ought to make any viewer visibly recoil.
News & Views The politics of women’s clothing From victim-blaming to criticism, slut-shaming, harassment and even punishment, the subject of women’s clothing remains political and fraught.
News & Views Kavanaugh confirms we’re ‘himpathisers’ & the prognosis isn’t good Kavanaugh is unlikely to be impeached because of our cultural tendency to sympathise with ‘the male point of view’, known as ‘himpathy’, writes Alix Lee.
News & Views A football stadium is the main frontier for women’s rights in Iran today Sahar Khodayari was arrested while entering Azadi Stadium to watch a game of football after her gender is revealed to stadium security guards.
News & Views How nationalism is fuelling xenophobia and white supremacy A correlation between Trump’s divisive anti-immigrant rhetoric and a groundswell of white supremacist incidents is starting to emerge.
News & Views The futility of ‘International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict’ June 19 was the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. The world’s media remained largely silent about the anniversary.
News & Views #MeToo: Naming and shaming men in power who abuse female athletes This list of men have all been credibly accused of sexually abusing women and girl athletes, many of whom were underage at the time they were targeted.
News & Views Why the AFP media raids are a slippery slope we cannot ignore ABC Chair, Ita Buttrose, released a statement condemning the AFP media raids. A free press is a cornerstone of any functioning democracy.
News & Views Nusrat Jahan Rafi was burned to death for reporting a sexual assault Nusrat Jahan Rafi was set on fire for refusing to withdraw a sexual assault claim against her principal at the Islamic seminary where she studied.
News & Views Why millennials are flirting with the concept of non-democracy The 2019 Deloitte Millennial survey found that Generation X & Z are among the most disaffected youth we’ve ever seen: pessimistic & distrusting.
News & Views Our silencing of women politicians should have prepared us for Alabama’s backflip on abortion laws Last week in the US, a group of 25 white, male Republican senators voted to pass anti-abortion laws in Alabama restricting abortion in all cases.