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.
Women – Page 2
When You Need to Start Again
By Natalie D-NapoleonNatalie 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
By Maria GriffinThrough 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
By Caitlin CassidyEqual 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
By Caitlin CassidyBased 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
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.
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
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
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.