Ed’s Blog

I had a weird juxtaposition of posts flow through my Facebook feed this morning.

I was asked to speak at a Twitter event this week, the topic was #positionofstrength and female empowerment.

There’s a quote by venture capitalist Peter Thiel that I’ve been sharing a lot recently: “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.

The all-male-panel is so ubiquitous it has its own tumbler account, it’s own meme image, and a movement asking men to take the pledge that they won’t participate on an all male panel.

Larne Beachley is the most successful female surfer in history, having been named ASP World Champion seven times.

I’ve been doing more public speaking lately.

Another day, another horrific story about male violence against women and another article in the mainstream press humanising the perpetrators and diminishing the victims.

It’s quite surreal, this is Australia, where we have arts festivals and sport and flat screen TVs and make jokes about democracy sausages.

For his entire prime ministership, Tony Abbott struggled to win the women’s vote.

I’ve heard two different versions of “all the girls to the front” stories.

The trouble with expressing your right to have a voice online, particularly as a woman, is that it threatens longstanding, traditional notions of power.

Paul Keating is always going to draw a crowd.