“Welcome to the Club”: a review of Choice Words
By Zhenya BourovaChoice words is a collection of timely writing highlighting and unmasking abortion and it’s stigma, because sometimes choice doesn’t really mean choice.
Women
It’s Not About the Burqa: a review
By Caitlin CassidyIt’s Not About the Burqa Ed. Mariam Khan Pan Macmillan The burqa has been the centrepiece of polarising debates surrounding Islamophobia in the last two decades. In Australia, Pauline Hanson shocked the nation in 2017 by entering the Senate donned in a black burqa in a call to make the garment illegal. In Britain, Boris […]
Encountering modern slavery in Lebanon
By Anika BasetAnika Baset writes about confronting evidence of racial violence, modern slavery, and domestic servitude in Lebanon.
We are Aisha, Katherine, Elizabeth, Rachel and Lili (poem)
By Amirah Al WassifIn Amirah Al Wassif’s poem, she captures the cadence of many women’s voices and unites them all with a sense of resilience and hope.
On Violence: a review
By Samaya BoromOn Violence creates a conversation about violence as a national emergency and what needs to be done to prevent it.
Surviving: a review of Shout
By Gabrielle EverallLaurie Halse Anderson’s autobiographical collection of poetry is a story of survival more than it is a story about rape.
Eurydice on Wangetti Beach (poem)
By Claire HansenClaire Hansen’s poem ‘Eurydice on Wangetti Beach’ considers the intersections of Greek mythology and contemporary sexual violence, as they play out on a Queensland beach.
This one weird old fat joke will make you disappear completely
By Eloise GrillsSex and the City, Shallow Hal and Kim Kardashian have more in common than you think. For one, they all tacitly profit off fat jokes.
Talking Away the Taboo
By Surya MatondkarSohaila Abdulali’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape challenges the conversations surrounding rape culture and acts as a rallying call to all.
Crime fiction, and human rights? An interview with Kate Jessica Raphael
Kate Jessica Raphael in conversation with Janelle KohJanelle Koh sits down with Kate Jessica Raphael, award-winning crime fiction author for a chat about her work, and the interrelations that exist between crime fiction and human rights.
Checkpoint at the Green Line (excerpt from Murder Under the Bridge)
By Kate Jessica RaphaelRead an excerpt of Kate Jessica Raphael’s crime fiction novel ‘Murder Under the Bridge’, which is drawn directly from the author’s experiences in Palestine.