Catch up on all the feminist news from all around the world this week on Lip! Here’s how to help the effort to find the missing Nigerian schoolgirls. Seriously, a judge actually thought it would be a good idea to send this rapist to do community service at a rape crisis centre! Read about…
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In the ever-present and isolating world of social media, we sometimes get caught up in our own headspaces. Don’t deny doing the typical thing, that I have often done, when receiving a Facebook event or seeing a Tweet about a not-for-profit cause or someone’s theatre show that they need you to help fund with Pozible,…
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Catch up on all the feminist news from all around the world this week on Lip! Did you observe ANZAC day yesterday? Well, don’t forget to remember women in war and women affected by war. Check out this blog post for some thought-provoking stories. Watch Jon Stewart from The Daily Show bag out persistent sexism…
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**Trigger warning: discussion of rape and rape culture** This just makes me incredibly angry. In an open, anonymous letter to Harvard, a student has shared her story of sexual abuse by a fellow schoolmate that has, at this stage, been ignored by the school itself. The student, who has been diagnosed with depression and has…
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This sort of thing may not be surprising anymore, but it’s still worth mentioning that yet again, women have disowned feminism. This time, it was at a panel presentation set up by The Heritage Foundation of America entitled ‘Women’s History Month: Evaluating Feminism, Its Failures, and Its Future,’ in which conservative women stepped up to…
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The Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, announced on Thursday that the Senate will attempt to vote on equal pay legislation, the Paycheck Fairness Act, as soon as next week. This vote will hopefully take place on Equal Pay Day, which is ‘the day up to which a woman must work in the current year to…
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Australian university student, Lewis Merryweather stated that he often encounters negative reactions at university when he declares himself a feminist – especially when he’s tried to get his male friends to go to feminism talks with him. He gets this response: ‘Why would you go to a talk on feminism? You’re a guy!’ He doesn’t…
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With the fourth season of Girls on the horizon for airing in 2015, I’m sure many of you out there are super psyched to see just want Lena Dunham has concocted next for her band of ladies. I am, however, not looking forward to the next season – I find the show barely relatable and…
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Do you remember a few years back when the vaccination, Gardasil, was released? You probably do remember because (hopefully) you got the three free injections from your doctor as part of the Medicare scheme. I was slightly unlucky. I had my first two shots in America, and upon arriving in Australia, I did not yet…
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Another day, another story about asylum seekers that are not receiving humane treatment in Australian offshore detention centres. If you haven’t already heard the latest – here’s a round up: On Monday, 17th February, a riot broke out on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island detention centre, which has resulted in 62 injured asylum seekers and…
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Just as we thought things with the newly appointed Abbott government couldn’t get any worse. News has broke that the government’s initiative to bring ‘to bring indigenous policy under the PM’s control,’ by employing ‘260 Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander bureaucrats’ into the Department of the Prime Minster and Cabinet, is going to be paying…
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Are you awaiting a candlelit dinner, a bouquet of luscious red roses, diamond jewellery and heart-shaped chocolates this Friday the 14 February? Well if you are, you are apparently like most girls who think such things are very romantic. Me, well, I’m not like most girls. I’m a florist. And the last thing I want…
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Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg started a nonprofit organisation, LeanIn.org, to educate, inspire and support women who feel pressured by the media to be skinnier, sexier and prettier. On 9 February, she announced that the organisation would be partnering with Getty Images to create a ‘collection of images that it says represent women and families in…
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The latest trend that’s been heating up Twitter, blogs and online articles alike is something called ‘free bleeding.’ It’s a ‘disturbing new trend … in which a woman who is menstruating chooses to use feminine products no longer, in exchange for allowing her blood to flow “freely” out of her body, staining her clothing and…
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