So… I’m a Mrs.
Yes, I’m 21 and recently married. It seems that more and more couples are holding out on their wedding vows these days, taking their time in these life steps and focusing on other parts of their life in the meantime. So I guess I can say that I am one of the few young people [...]
It’s complicated: female circumcision
Female circumcision or female genital cutting (FGC) seems to be quite a grisly business. It’s often categorised alongside the many different acts of violence against women, made all the worse by the fact that, in some cultures, it’s ritualised. It is the unnecessary cutting or removal of female genitalia that is medically unnecessary – done [...]
Sexual Education and its Shortfallings
Whenever I talk to someone from the US education system, or hear about it on TV, I feel lucky to have gone through the Australian system. While we were taught about STDs and how to say ‘no’ to sex, we also learned about many different types of contraception, and the stupidity of the rhythm method [...]
dvd review: the post-grad survival guide
Melissa Wellham reviews ‘The Post-Grad Survival Guide’ – out now on DVD.
interview with belinda chayko
Courtney Dawson interviews writer/director Belinda Chayko, in anticipation of her new film ‘Lou’ – hitting cinemas soon.
Parental Leave
Recently, the Rudd government has posed the following parental leave scheme: Working mothers will receive the minimum wage ($544 per week) when they take maternity leave. ‘Working mothers’ are those who work at least one day a week in ten of the thirteen months before birth. There are no provisions for paid paternity leave. Of [...]
Wedding weight
A very good friend of mine is getting married this year. Another very good friend of mine got married a couple of years ago. What both these very good friends have in common? They’re fat. One more inbetweenie than the other, but still identifies as fat. What else they have in common? Both have been/were [...]
Creative communities – there’s no such thing as three’s a crowd!
There is a joke in my family that I was born telling stories; I apparently came into the world mid-sentence. When I was two years old, I began inventing words. At four I dictated stories to my parents in lieu of being able to write them myself. My father built my first writing desk when [...]
sex sells
Melissa Wellham looks at what ‘Sex and The City’ is selling women – and it’s more than shoes.
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