Intifar Chowdhury is a Lecturer in Government, Flinders University. This article first appeared in The Conversation.
- Intifar Chowdhury
For as long as I can remember, I’ve always found the idea of a trans-exclusionary radical feminist (colloquially referred to as a TERF or more recently as self-described ‘gender-critical feminists’) as incredibly ironic, if not entirely counterintuitive to the worthwhile cause of feminism as a whole.
- Elle Burnard
"On the World Day of Social Justice, let’s talk about kinship incarceration and the ignored ripple effect of imprisonment through extended family networks," writes Maia Onyenachi.
- Maia Onyenachi
With the fall of the Assad regime, Syrian women are increasingly speaking out against the imposition of the hijab and expressing their concerns about the country’s shift toward more stringent Islamic rule – Batoul Yazbeck reports.
- Batoul Yazbeck
"As a proud asexual woman, this information is not surprising to me in the slightest. While I am not shocked, I am really mad," writes Allie Daisy King.
- Allie Daisy King
Job-sharing political candidates Lucy Bradlow and Bronwen Bock have announced that they have submitted an application to the Federal Court of Australia, seeking to prevent the Australian Electoral Commission from rejecting their nomination to run for a Victorian Senate seat in the upcoming federal election.
- Missing Perspectives
In June last year, the West Bengal government conducted eviction drives across the city of Kolkata to do away with ‘encroachments’. The impacts on women and children are still felt today, reports Ritwika Mitra.
- Ritwika Mitra
Minister Gallagher, Minister Butler, and Assistant Minister Kearney today unveiled a $573.3 million women’s health package, which includes the PBS listing of the first new contraceptive pills in over three decades.
- Missing Perspectives
"The lack of empathy towards people trapped in a crisis that they cannot out-save, out-earn or out-hustle is setting us back significantly. While some are wrapped up in the concept of worthiness, we stray further and further away from reaching a critical part of the discussion: it does not have to be like this," writes Emily Readman.
- Emily Readman
In November last year, I was in Canberra supporting a workshop with high school-aged students. An annual workshop, it focused on building the political literacy of young people, positioning them as people with solutions, and encouraging them to bring their solutions to life.
- Ashleigh Streeter-Jones