Since 2000, NSW’s youngest mother was just 11 and fewer than six 12-year-olds have given birth, according to the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
In the papers today we read about one such 12-year-old girl who, allowed to live with her 15-year-old boyfriend despite her father’s pleas to the Department of Community Services, is [...]
The University of Sydney is currently conducting a study looking at the effects of genital image and body image on the sexual functioning of women. Within the study they’ll be looking at how physical perception of oneself can impact on one’s sexual self-esteem and whether genital image concerns influence comfort during sexual activity.
The ultimate goal [...]
A new government initiative - the Body Image National Advisory Board - met for the first time this week and will be working towards combating the prevalence of negative body image amongst girls, and recognising how the media and fashion industries play a huge part in this.
Over the next five months the group will [...]
I would like to open a discussion about pole dancing, in light of the article in the current issue. Pole dancing may be a cliched, trite and easy imagining with which to simplisticly infuse post and radical feminist dichotomies, but as a feminist leaning towards the radical, and wary of the significance and acceptance of [...]
Yesterday President Barack Obama signed a new law which will make it easier for women to sue their employers for pay discrimination.
The new bill is named after Lilly Ledbetter who, after decades of work in an Alabama tyre plant, discovered she had been paid less than her male colleagues.
“It is fitting that with the very [...]
The following is copied directly from an email I received from GetUp. It is an extremely important issue for all Australians, so please take the time to read about it and give your support.
With Telstra’s refusal to participate in filter trials leaving the Government’s internet censorship plan “in shreds”,1 there’s never been a more important [...]
I really don’t like the word slut, but I seem to have been hearing it everywhere lately.
It started when a friend got a bit tipsy and very flirtatious with an ex of hers during a night out. He was flirting back, too. Then his girlfriend showed up. My friend later danced with another guy [...]
This past Tuesday (Nov 4th) history was made. Senator. Barack Obama was chosen by the nation as the new democratic president-elect. He won by a landslide, receiving 364 electoral votes (far exceeding the 270 to win), while his rival John McCain only received 173 electoral votes. Obama, the prior senator for Illinois grew up in Hawaii and [...]
Here at lip, we’re all in favour of giving creative types the chance to share their talent with the world. Two Flat Whites is an Australian website with a similar goal. It describes itself as a “network for Fashion, Design, Music, Film, Food, Lifestyle, Community, Writing and Small Business.” The site showcases the talents of [...]
New research shows that some of the music by celebrated composer Johann Sebastian Bach may actually have been written by his wife.
Professor Martin Jarvis from Charles Darwin University this week presented the theory at the International Symposium on Forensic Sciences in Melbourne that Bach’s Cello Suites are likely to have been written by his [...]
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