Bianca Fileborn

While encouraging women to go on a “sex strike” over reproductive rights is laudable, this approach is deeply problematic, writes Bianca Fileborn.

Have you ever intervened upon witnessing sexual harassment? Should you have and what can you actually do? Bianca Fileborn from the UNSW explores the issue in this piece republished from The Conversation.

Most Australian women (87%) have experienced some form of street harassment, whether it’s whistles, stares, unwanted comments or being followed by strangers in the street – often before the age of 18.

The release of the “Nauru files” last week revealed more than 2,000 incidents of sexual assault, child abuse and self-harm of asylum seekers, and documented the appalling living conditions for those held in offshore detention on Nauru.

You may not have heard the term “street harassment”, but if you’re a woman in Australia, you’ve probably experienced it: whistles, stares, unwanted comments, touching or being followed by strangers in the street.