What it’s like to be a young woman at COP29 this week
Kupa is part of Plan International Australia’s Youth Activist Series for 2024. She is an award-winning human rights activist, social entrepreneur and intersectional feminist. She attended COP29 this week.
Kic co-founder Laura Henshaw on what it takes to build a generational health and fitness company
Ten years into business, Laura Henshaw and her co-founder Steph Miller (née Steph Claire Smith) have survived the initial years of startup life. Now, she’s ready to set the company up for success well into the future. In life – and startups – there’s a little heuristic called the “Lindy effect” documented by Nassim Taleb […]
Meet Jane Marx, the founder behind the Brunswick florist providing an economic future for women from refugee backgrounds
Tucked away in Brunswick East is a bustling studio filled to the brim with flowers. Inside this unique florist, a team of women heal their souls and build their economic futures one beautiful bunch at a time. It’s a Thursday morning in a Melbourne thinking about spring. I’m savouring the rare sunlight as I wander […]
Sunroom Co-Founder Michelle Battersby on knowing your strengths and the power of intuition
It takes a lot of inner confidence and a little bit of chutzpah to break the corporate career mould and carve your own path. Here, Michelle Battersby breaks down her journey from marketing at Citibank to now co-running her own founder-led business.
Missing Perspectives launches High Agency Women partnership with Blackbird
This week, our team at Missing Perspectives is proud to level up our business-reporting as part of a new partnership with leading Australian venture capital firm, Blackbird. We’ve partnered with Blackbird to speak with high agency female founders across ANZ about what they’re building, how they’re building it, and their unique approaches to commerce and […]
My ancestors did not die for my right to vote. They died for my right to life. And I intend to live.
Taylor Crumpton is a music, pop culture and politics writer from Dallas. Her experience organizing for Black students, in addition to her advocating for abortion rights and reproductive justice, were critical stepping stones to informing her editorial approach.
I am a young woman in Afghanistan, and nothing shocks me anymore
We currently live in a world where we see a lot of things that don’t make sense. It has nothing to do with the logic. But it’s still happening. After all, the world that we live in is not a heaven. Or maybe it’s not the world – maybe the world is not a cruel […]
In México City, Casa Frida provides a haven for LGBTQIA+ migrants
Casa Frida provides tools for those fleeing their home countries due to persecution — including attacks for just being who they are.
Meet pioneering cliff diver Rhiannan Iffland, who has jumped out of a hot air balloon
We caught up with the world’s most decorated Cliff Diver Rhiannan Iffland ahead of the Red Bull Cliff Diving final taking place in Sydney Harbour on 10th November.
I never really noticed my body, until I started attending fashion week
I was, yet again, the largest person at most of these shows. And while this might make some people feel self conscious, for me frankly it made me mad as I should not be the largest person at a show.
