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what fit looks like: part two

Last week I wrote about Lorna Jane and how, in my opinion, they reinforce the notion of a woman’s looks being her number one priority, despite being a fitness-based organisation. I had some great,...

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the female football reporter versus facebook: defending caroline wilson

  Racism in football has been thrust into the spotlight again as of last week, and Andrew Demetriou has moved to reassure people that racism will not be tolerated. Almost simultaneously, a book by...

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body policing: to bra or not to bra

Women’s bodies get policed a lot. The term “policing” in this case is pretty self-explanatory – it describes the super fun activity whereby other people feel they have the right to comment on how women...

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the everyday frustration of fighting rape culture

I’m sure you’ll know what I’m talking about when I say that some days I’m just so fed up with the state of the world, all I can do to get through the day is throw my hands up, get into my onesie, lie...

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david morrison and how he restored our faith in humanity

The last couple of weeks have been absolutely shitful ones. First we saw our Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, the woman who holds the highest office in the goddamn country, humiliated by a vile menu that...

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feminism and sweating the small stuff

Back in May, Twitter was host to a disagreement regarding, in its essence, a contention of what is the Right Kind of Feminism. We had Helen Razer making sarcastic comments about feminism ‘sweating the...

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men are from earth (and so are women)

From early on in our life, we’re gradually exposed to different relationships between people. For the most part, these relationships will be of the romantic kind between a man and a woman. Of course,...

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from the moment i wake up, before i put on my make up…

Earlier this year, well-known Australian beauty expert, Zoe Foster, released an app as a companion to her book on makeup, hair and skincare tips, ‘Amazing Face’. Having read the book myself, I have to...

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waitress thanks breastfeeding mum by buying her a pizza

There’s a special kind of hysteria reserved for those who feel strongly about women using their chest bags to keep their children fed/content/alive in public. Turns out people get pretty upset about...

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why everyone should care about the crisis in russia

I told myself a while ago that I wouldn’t waste my precious time and energy bothering to refute things that people* like Rush Limbaugh say in a public forum, in what are increasingly desperate attempts...

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in brief: chris brown, todd akin, the acl and beautiful lengths

Chris Brown has yet again managed to cause a controversy in regards to his history of abuse towards his girlfriend at the time, Rihanna by getting a tattoo on his neck that bears a disconcerting...

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feminist news round-up 30.09.12

jill meagher’s body found; suspect charged with her rape and murder Jill Meagher, the Irish woman who disappeared without a trace from Sydney Rd, Brunswick in Melbourne in the early hours of Sunday...

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plan to reduce violence against women committed to by federal and state...

With the recent disappearance and subsequent murder of Irish woman Jill Meagher in Melbourne, never has the issue of violence committed against women been more important. Meagher was last seen on CCTV...

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news: gillard moves further ahead in polls; abbott with more snide remarks

In what is some sweet, sweet vindication and a firm ‘fuck you’ to every Australian media journalist who labelled Prime Minister Gillard’s ‘I will not be lectured by this man’ speech as nothing more...

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sexual assault reporting app developed post-jill meagher

In the days after Jill Meagher’s body was found, police were inundated with calls from women who reported having been the victims of sexual harassment on Sydney Road, not far from where Meagher was...

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