Arab, Australian, Other: a review
This collection explores the varied experiences of living in the Arab diaspora in Australia, countering the portrayal of the Australian media, which ranges from homogenisation to racism.
Women – Page 2
The Senate inquiry into family violence has closed, missing an important opportunity
Australia has yet to grapple in a co-ordinated and meaningful way with the pervasiveness and severity of coercive control in the lives of abused Australian women.
When You Need to Start Again
Natalie D-Napoleon’s poem is from a body of work that explores motherhood, from both a political and personal perspective, and the silencing of women’s voices.
You Daughters of Freedom: a review
Through the eyes of five remarkable women, Clare Wright explores the battle for women’s votes. Wright reestablishes these forgotten suffragettes and ensures that history will remember their inspiring example.
The Witches Are Coming: a review
Equal parts funny, empowering and moving, Lindy West’s book of essays The Witches Are Coming focuses on feminism and protest, asking us not to despair, but to be empowered and to act.
Women, Men & the Whole Damn Thing: a review
Based on his original article, David Leser investigates the origins, perpetuation and consequences of male violence in his insightful and powerful new book.
“Welcome to the Club”: a review of Choice Words
Choice words is a collection of timely writing highlighting and unmasking abortion and it’s stigma, because sometimes choice doesn’t really mean choice.
It’s Not About the Burqa: a review
It’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
Anika Baset writes about confronting evidence of racial violence, modern slavery, and domestic servitude in Lebanon.
We are Aisha, Katherine, Elizabeth, Rachel and Lili
In 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
On Violence creates a conversation about violence as a national emergency and what needs to be done to prevent it.
Surviving: a review of Shout
Laurie Halse Anderson’s autobiographical collection of poetry is a story of survival more than it is a story about rape.