Mia Freedman, founder of Australia’s most popular women’s site Mamamia, has a solid following of both lovers and haters on the web. Since her days at Cosmopolitan, to ‘feminist’ writer for Australian women, Freedman has been at the forefront of heavy controversy. Most recently, she was criticised across the media for not paying her Mamamia…
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Artist who designed the American Apparel ‘period power’ t shirt gets her Instagram account deleted. Petra Collins, the artist who designed the now infamous American Apparel ‘period power’ t shirt that we were all talking about a few weeks ago, has had her Instagram account deleted because body regulation. In classic social media anti-woman-censorship, Collins’…
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Monday night’s episode of Q&A featured a panel comprised entirely of women. Brooke Magnanti, Germaine Greer, Mia Freedman, Deborah Cheetham and Janet Albrechtsen answered questions put to them by Toni Jones and the audience. I was really looking forward to the show—I expected rigorous debate (and, in particular, for Germaine Greer to intellectually body-slam the…
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