feminist news round-up 21.6.15
On Lip this week:
Edie-Louise Diemar on why the phrase ‘walk of shame’ has got to go
Google takes important step in tackling revenge porn
Miley Cyrus launches transgender awareness campaign
NSW woman’s breastfeeding ban overturned
Sophia Flo Dacy-Cole reviews ballet performance The Dream
Sunrise apologises for post victim blaming women affected by revenge porn
US to feature a woman on new $10 bill
#JustATampon: a new campaign to tackle the stigma surrounding periods
Employees with intellectual disabilities paid $0.99 per hour
In Real Life: Coco McGrath reviews Chris Killen’s latest novel
Shannon Clarke on who gets to be a jerk (and why do they want to)?
Elsewhere on the Interwebs:
Sunitha Krishnan, founder of anti-sex trafficking charity Prajwala, posts rape videos online
Social worker Charlotte Wilson claims that security guards at Nauru paid asylum seekers for sex and filmed it
Clementine Ford banned from Facebook account for 30 days after posting screenshots of abusive messages sent to her account
Government aims to introduce tougher restrictions on wind farms
Natalie Portman signs up to the Ruth Bader Ginsburg film on the condition that it has a female director
Homelessness Australia finds that an extra $68 million a year is needed to house domestic violence victims in crisis accommodation
Australian of the Year Rosie Batty calls on alcohol levy to be introduced in order to fund responses to family violence
Prominent abortion rights activist and founder of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, Anne Nicol Gaylor, dies at age 88
Bill proposed in Argentina that would criminalise verbal street harassment
