This one weird old fat joke will make you disappear completely
Sex and the City, Shallow Hal and Kim Kardashian have more in common than you think. For one, they all tacitly profit off fat jokes.
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Talking Away the Taboo
Sohaila 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
Janelle 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)
Read 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.
Ace&jig brings human rights and sustainability into fashion
ace&jig are changing fashion by putting sustainability and human rights at the heart of everything they do.
The Good Ugly, The Bad Ugly, and the Ugly Ugly
How come no one wants to talk about how annoying depression is?
Who will lead the way? Fashion is a human rights issue
I recently found myself, an avid lover of fashion, remarking to a colleague: ‘Really, all aspects of the fashion chain are terrible. The more I think about it, the more I feel like we shouldn’t wear clothing at all – we should all just be nude’. She laughed, but I was kind of serious. It […]
Misogyny, patriarchy and toxic masculinity: A review of Boys Will Be Boys
Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship By Clementine Ford Allen & Unwin Clementine Ford has delivered a fantastic piece of work written with a delicious language that is a well-crafted blend of passion, anger and humour. Boys Will Be Boys takes the reader through the very concerning series of […]
Rape culture IS that bad: A Review of “Not That Bad”
“Not That Bad” is a varied and harrowing insight into rape culture, and all the realities associated with it.
The dimensionality of experience: a review of “The Hijab Files”
Maryam Azam explores the modern, and personal experience of wearing a hijab in her debut poetry book, “The Hijab Files”.
Where do (surrogate) babies come from? Surrogacy as human rights violation
Surrogacy violates the basic human rights of women and children. Dr Renate Klein explains why the practice should be banned in Australia to protect the most vulnerable.
Queensland’s decriminalisation of abortion is a landmark decision – now we need enforcement
Kaushi Kogar suggests that the enforcement of abortion laws is no easy task; we need to do more to ensure that termination services are accessible and affordable to all women.