This afternoon (Sunday, October 16) All About My Sisters, a deeply personal take on the psychological aftermath of China’s One Child Policy is screening in Canberra. It screens again later this...
Category: Relationships
Violence against First Nations women, children during COVID-19
This article was inspired by a talk given by Dr Chay Brown for ANU's Centre for Aboriginal and Economic Policy Research, where she is a fellow. At the start of the pandemic, I was returning home...
Torres Strait Islander women, turtle hunting and spirituality
This is an edited extract from Masked Histories, Turtle Shell Masks and Torres Strait Islander People by Leah Lui-Chivizhe. It's published here with full permission. The first turtle to be caught...
The impossible load that just keeps growing
As we approach the next ACT public school pupil free day, I have been reflecting on the demands we are placing on our working parents - and more specifically mums around the country. For my part,...
Paid parental leave: women left holding the baby
Thinking of parenthood in the 1950s conjures a picture of a perfectly coiffed wife, cherubic baby in arms, cheerily waving goodbye to her husband - the gallant breadwinner - as he heads off to work....
LateBloomerLesbians: Body through #hashtags
Some of us are married to men, some of us are dating them, and some of us are chronically single. But we all have one thing in common: we are late to the coming out game. So reads the introduction...
Stealthing: Most people don’t know it’s rape
When it happens to you, it can be devastating. Violating. Traumatising. But did you know it’s also rape? I’m talking about stealthing – the non-consensual removal of a condom during sex. Elena, who...
Confronting domestic abuse in the South Asian community
Manjula Datta O’Connor's book, Daughters of Durga, is an incisive investigation of domestic violence in South Asian communities, and the resilience of women in the face of adversity. Here she talks...
Census shows women are doing more housework. Again.
The Australian Census numbers have been released, showing women typically do many more hours of unpaid housework per week compared to men. It’s not a new development. In 2016, the “typical”...