“Injustice anywhere,” Martin Luther King famously wrote in his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” “is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” We tend to think…
60 seconds with Juliana Qian
Shanghainese/Melburnian cultural critic, media maker and poet-provocateur If you were a super-heroine, what powers would you like to have? Precognition. But most likely it’d just make me really anxious. Maybe to have an endless appetite with no hunger. Good for…
Launch of the Bbkayi Report
Bbkayi means Baby plus two in Cantonese. It’s the title of a report which outlines the enablers and barriers for Chinese women in the City of Whitehorse to access antenatal, maternal and parent support. The study found that family and…
Invitation to Public Forum: 'Does Feminism Speak for All Women?'
Feminism is making a comeback. In Australia, feminism is increasingly becoming a part of pop culture, politics, and a dominant topic in the world of social media. Internationally, struggles by women all over the world are adding to the significance…
The WRAP: International Women’s Day Edition
International Women’s Day! March 8 is a special day for women all over the world. It’s a day to celebrate women in all their political, cultural, generational, spiritual, physical, and economic variety which is quite a lot of celebrating, so…
Position Paper on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
February 6 is the International Day of Zero Tolerance to FGM/C, and an important opportunity for us all to affirm our commitment to improving the rights, safety and health of women and girls around the globe. To mark the day,…
The WRAP #6 : FGM/C, Housing Hope and 60 seconds with Azam Naghavi
Happy New Year If you’re already struggling to stick to your new year’s resolutions as the first month of 2013 draws to a close: the good news is there are another eleven months to keep on trying. There’s always a…
What we can achieve in one generation
This 6th February marks a decade since the then First Lady of Nigeria, Mrs Stella Obasanjo officially declared the date as the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C). Five years later in 2008, the UN Population…
When a house is a home
All the talk of the gender salary gap and whether or not you can you live on $32 a day as a sole-parent could be enough to make you despair (who would have thought there would be gender-gap deniers, and…
60 seconds with Azam Naghavi
PhD Scholar and international student If you could have any job in the world, what would it be? Being a teacher. I was a teacher and a counsellor and when I go back to Iran, I’ll be teaching at university.…