A few weeks ago I decided to conduct a spot of impromptu social research (albeit badly thought-out and implemented research). I had been thinking about how for a while, I was feeling a lot of pressure to dress attractively and sexily, so that people would perhaps be interested in me. However, since identifying as asexual, … Continue reading »
Posted in March 2012 …
Off the Radar
This is a short story I wrote for next week’s upcoming issue of wom*news, the UQ Women’s Collective’s Zine. The theme for the issue is “sex! through a feminist lens” and I chose to look at an asexual perspective (one of many). Obviously I’ve put some personal experiences into writing this, but I’ve also made … Continue reading »
Sexist Jokes Are Not OK
It’s always disappointing when someone makes a sexist comment and then completely does not accept your explanation of why that comment was not ok. It’s even more frustrating when that person is someone you know very well; a friend you hang out with, a housemate, someone you assumed was a pretty decent person. The other … Continue reading »
On History, Culture and Change
It’s a few weeks into the new Uni semester, and I’m loving it. In particular I’ve found some very interesting issues being raised in my Roman Art and Australasian Archaeology lectures, about ideas of complex cultures and culture change. In particular, the way that these ideas are shaped by discourses of invasion and colonisation. As … Continue reading »
Looking to the Past
This past week UQ has been celebrating 40 years of Women’s Studies as a field of study. There was a lovely seminar on Thursday featuring women who had set up, taught and studies women’s studies there, from the very beginning as well as very recently. It was lovely to see so many people together who … Continue reading »
International Women’s Day Linkspamming
Happy International Women’s Day to all my lovely readers out there! I hope you all had a wonderful, empowering day. Personally, I’m also celebrating having hit 5,000 views of this blog a few days ago. It makes me feel very happy and privileged that people out there find this blog worth their time. In honour … Continue reading »
Three Steps Backwards
Before I started university, I had this idea that it was going to be this amazing, progressive place. Sadly, now that I’m getting more involved with things at uni, I’m realising just how hostile UQ’s student union can be to anyone who doesn’t fit it’s conservative ideals. Every orientation week UQ has what’s called a … Continue reading »
Period Shaming
I was browsing some other blogs yesterday when I came across a post by the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research. The writer was talking about an incident (though it hardly merits being called an incident) in a public toilet which illustrated the embarrassment surrounding changing a pad while out and about. The post also linked … Continue reading »
