I’ve just published my first guest post at another blog! It’s very exciting. You can find it here at Hoyden About Town. Excerpts: Talking about asexuality in discussions of feminism (and all its intersectionalities) is not the easiest task. As a recent thread at the high-profile blog Feministe has once again shown, attempts at any … Continue reading »
Posted in February 2012 …
Check your privilege: The Student Services & Amenities Fee
Warning: unashamed ranting about class privilege and selfish people. Last year the government decided that it would allow universities to charge a student services and amenities fee, which came into action at the beginning of this year. Since the invoices were sent out, I’ve seen a number of posts on university-related Facebook groups I frequent … Continue reading »
On Activism and Being Involved
Recently I’ve been getting involved in a lot of groups and communities, mainly revolving around university and feminism. I’ve started going to meetings, planning events, organising lunches, attending training sessions. All this is nothing new to me, but at the moment I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed because everything is starting to happen at once. And … Continue reading »
“Why Didn’t You Just Punch Him?” Thinking about sexual harassment and women’s passivity
A few months ago I bought a copy of Helen Garner’s book The First Stone from a second hand bookshop. It recounts, in an incomplete and semi-autobiographical style, the Ormond College affair of the 1990s, where two female students went to the police after claiming to have been sexually harassed by their college dean. Throughout … Continue reading »
Multiculturalism, really?
Trigger warning for racism and verbal abuse. I have been in Melbourne this past weekend, mainly in order to attend the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular on Saturday. (It was truly spectacular. I was in raptures most of the time.) Melbourne is very pretty, with such a different vibe to Sydney, the other major city I’ve … Continue reading »
Being an Ace Feminist
I’ve been thinking about the way that my identity as a feminist and my identity as asexual intersect. Although I discovered feminism and asexuality around the same time, I’ve only started pondering their influence on each other over the last few weeks. One of the big, underlying feminist ideas (for me at least) is the … Continue reading »
