It is starting to feel like each and every day there is a new example of people behaving badly. In the past fortnight, we have been (re)exposed to a toxic culture permeating the NRL involving the non-…
Mariam Veiszadeh on arriving in Australia at age 7 & not ‘belonging’ anywhere
Mariam Veiszadeh was seven when she arrived in Australia in 1991 and she didn’t speak a word of English. Three years earlier, in 1988, when Mariam was just four, her family had fled Afghanistan, their…
Laurie Penny on feminism, freedom & how to avoid burning out
Laurie Penny is a British journalist, activist, author and feminist. She began writing about feminism online at 19 and, a little over a decade later, has become a leading voice in discussions around g…
The terrifying truth about trolls: there is nothing virtual about the toll they take.
In 2013 Ginger Gorman and her family became the targets of an orchestrated online hate campaign. They were subject to a torrent of hate-filled messages via social media. A photo of Gorman, her husband…
