This year’s International Women’s Day theme of #BreakTheBias invited us all to imagine a world that’s free of inequality, bias and discrimination. While advocacy work has highlighted the deep-rooted...
We will not be invisible: photographing older women
Women over the age of 40 often say they are suddenly become invisible in public life. Well, not to photographer Yasmin Idriss. Two years ago she embarked on a project to photograph the fabulousness...
Why ‘And Just Like That’ fails older women
If you’re after escapist TV this summer you won’t find it in the Sex and the City reboot …And Just Like That. Each week I tune in hoping for a glamourous date with Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte but...
Systemic pressures keep Joey ‘dirt poor’ and homeless
Joey King, a community services professional and student living with mental illness, details the systemic pressures that keep her ‘dirt poor’ and homeless. I googled the term “dirt poor”. I know it...
Let’s hear from women in aged care residences
In her recent best seller, The Invisible Woman, Caroline Craido Perez claims that ‘most of recorded history is one big gender gap’. When it comes to the lives of the ‘other half’ of humanity she...