The University of Sydney Philosophy Department has listed Holly Lawford-Smith, Associate Professor in Political Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, as one of its speakers in its Semester 2 seminar series.
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My first year art history subject, ARHT1001 Style and Substance: Introducing Art History, discussed “women artists’ as a ‘theme’ in…
People talk about feeling a pull from the ocean: its call, their response, and a splendid union. I can’t say I’ve felt the same. My pull comes from within, it is manic and obsessive. Every other thought is suffocated by my desperation for submersion. Returning to the water is a compulsion.
In our current era, choice feminism and postfeminism collide inside an online algorithm which favours therapy-speak and is designed specifically to dissuade nuance and maximise profit margins, creating a toxic narrative: the widespread and mindless glorification of values and behaviours that uphold patriarchy, using the language of ‘feminism’.
If we leave animals out of our liberation struggles, then we are taking the playbook of our oppressors, and using it to subjugate others.
Porn is not consumed in a vacuum — it is a small piece of a broader picture, and it is not solely responsible for its own failure to expand our sexual imagination.
Uncovering the sexism in semantic change.
Feminist hero Alex Cooper delivers what generations of women have fought for: women telling each other that they’re “just a hole”.
The implementation of this ban will have a chilling effect on Texan women.
During the talk, which called abortion a “net negative” for women, protestors’ cries of “our bodies, our choice!” from outside reverberated within the lecture theatre and the Law Annex building.