Jessica Pin is a US advocate with the goal of comprehensive and equitable coverage of the clitoral anatomy in Obstetrics & Gynaecology (OB/GYN) textbooks. She's regularly interviewed by the...
Category: Gender
Research wrap: In the shadows of war
BroadAgenda Research Wrap is your monthly window into academia. We scour the journals so you don’t have to. This is not the Research Wrap I wanted to write. I wanted to write something...
A Summer of Hope: Amani’s story
After two long years of the global COVID-19 pandemic, so many of us find ourselves tired and lacking energy for even basic tasks. Facing a new year does not fill us with the joy of possibility as it...
Placing family violence survivors at the centre
In a brand new podcast called "There’s No Place Like Home", produced by Future Women, survivors are placed at the centre of the story. Ten brave Australians speak candidly about abuse they’ve...
Banishing body shame: ‘Ladies, We Need To Talk’
'Ladies, We Need To Talk' (the book) breaks the stigma around everything women are thinking but not saying. Author and presenter Yumi Stynes and health reporter and digital editor Claudine Ryan...
COVID-19: Economic insecurity and domestic abuse
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted significant concerns about the “shadow pandemic” of violence against women, and in particular intimate partner violence. A new study published by ANROWS...
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...
An inspiration: Professor Stuart Macintyre (1947 – 2021)
In 1993, as a freshly minted Harvard graduate and thrilled by my appointment to teach constitutional and administrative law at Melbourne University, I had an idea of academia as seen through a...
Our storytelling around fatherhood must change
Over summer, BroadAgenda is republishing some of its most popular articles. This compelling piece was first posted earlier this year. I groan at the screen when I see my kids watching one of the...