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Full archive - 5 Years of the OWP Blog

February 2024

Barbie (2023) Review: Not An Intersectional Feminist’s Dreamhouse

To Wimbledon and Beyond! - The Story of Ruia Morrison

December 2023

Online Extremism: A Recurring Nightmare

November 2023

Is the K-pop Industry Toxic for Women? 

Call to action: Australian universities need to be held accountable for their failures on sexual violence

Is it queerbaiting or are you perpetuating heteronormativity?

October 2023

Women’s Experience of Online Harassment in the Gaming Community

The Voice - One Woman Project Position Statement

Examining Under-representation of CARM Women in Public Sector Leadership

September 2023

I watched (and debunked) Channel 7's transphobic propaganda piece so you don't have to

August 2023

Constructing Virginity: Morality and the Hymen

World Pride: a celebration of LGBTQ+ community or just performative allyship?

What did the 'Little Mermaid' remake teach us about society?

Race, Ethnicity, and Culture Within the Study of Islam

June 2023

Deepfakes: There is no such thing as consent

Oral contraceptives are not a one-size-fits-all

March 2023

How “Wife Guys” get what they want

He Is Still Just A Man -poem

November 2022

Gender Diverse People Don’t Owe You Androgyny

Illegible Rage

September 2022

Australia and pepper-spray: or, the “Good luck, ladies” approach to women’s self-defence

The serious issue with Incels

August 2022

The Overturning of Roe V Wade and Abortion Rights in the USA- What Does It Mean?

The Importance of Promoting First Nation Peoples’ Voices and Experiences

Clandestine Queerness in the Nineteenth Century: Romantic Friendships as Evidence of a Lesbian Culture

July 2022

How to Make Abortion Accessible in Post-Roe US

Rethinking Pelvic Pain

June 2022

Pride Month 2022: LGBTQIA+ Rights Wins in the Past Year

Caring During Times of Uncertainty: An Approach for Rebuilding

Reproductive Coercion

May 2022

Won’t somebody think of the children?

A Look at True Crime Content from a Feminist Fan

April 2022

On Open Letter to My Perpetrator

March 2022

Finding transgender ancestors, or ‘transcestors’, in early-modern Australia

February 2022

The Story Left Untold

October 2021

Talk Toxic: A Guide to Toxic Masculinity for Boys and Men

Why you should skip the “I’m not like other girls” phase

The Fetishisation of Male Aggression in Young Adult Media

Contemporary Media Recommendations That Actually Represent Youth

September 2021

Why do pronouns matter?

Elite Athleticism and the other endemic of sexual abuse: sex verification tests

August 2021

A farewell from our Founder

Institutionalised Misogyny in Texas: The Future of Roe vs Wade?

July 2021

Shame and Autism as a Feminist Issue: The Effects of Underdiagnosing Autism in Women/AFABs   

Anorexia -poem

Religion and Coercive Control

Seminar Series: Upskilling - an Underrated Pillar of Social Activism

June 2021

Lesbian Slang: A Not So Comprehensive Guide

Why criminalising coercive control in Australia poses danger for First Nations women

A Feminist Take on: Crimes against Women as Seen in Cinema

May 2021

Getting a grip on Pregnancy Anxiety

Breaking up with purity culture

April 2021

Why pornography isn’t to blame for the high rate of sexual assault in Australia

First Nations women, disabilities, and family violence: an intersectional approach 

Seminar Series Summary: Infertility and Pregnancy Loss As A Feminist Issue

March 2021

My Experience with Body Shaming and Microaggressions

Fitting In -poem

February 2021

A Day in the Life of our National Director

January 2021

I Was A White Feminist – Here's How I’m Learning to be an Intersectional Feminist, White Traitor and Abolitionist

How To Get (And Stay) Uncomfortable in 2021

Contradictions -poem


December 2020

Daily Feminist Acts - A Checklist

Dear Young and Future Feminists - Alex

November 2020

Calling out your friends is a feminist act

Dear Young and Future Feminists: Five Pivotal Readings to Replace

October 2020

Parents - We Need To Talk About Consent

State of the Nation: A Failure for Affirmative Consent

Dear Young and Future Feminists - Christy

Dear Young and Future Feminists: Three Pieces of Advice

From ‘Wifey’ to ‘Villain’: Reviewing the Bachelor Binary

Five Films About Girlhood to Stream Now

Seminar Series: Body Positivity

September 2020

Body Positivity and Neutrality on Film: Does It Exist?

Concept: Body Neutrality

A Feminist Critique of The Bachelor

Seminar Series: Mental Health

August 2020

Questions For A Young Activist: Mia Chisholm

We Need to Talk About Bella Thorne

Bachelor in Paradise Breakdown: On Bro Codes, Ring Tosses and Why Women Were the Stars of the Show

Grieving for Our Planet

The Importance of Setting Boundaries

July 2020

On Becoming A Feminist Activist and Fighting Imposter Syndrome

Rebuilding A Feminist Reality Part 5: Dismantling White Supremacy

What Ki At Age 13 Has Taught Me

Three Generations: A Conversation on Emigration With My Mum and Grandmother

Artivism: Australian Artists Engaging in Creative Activism

Now Streaming: 10 Amazing Documentaries about Feminist Activism

The Intersectionality of Burnout

June 2020

Performative Activism is Not Enough

Protest Information

Intersectional Feminism, Racism and Trains

Silence is Violence

Breaking Down Racism: We Must Start with Ourselves

‘To Make Stories About Ourselves’: 13 Films and TV Series made by Indigenous Creatives Now Streaming in Australia

Fantastic Books to Understand Race

May 2020

Rebuilding a Feminist Reality, Part 4: Feminist Parenting

Allyship: A Guide

The Time Gap

Identity, Agency, and Autonomy: An Intersectional Feminist View

On All That Is Normative

Navigating Emotional Processing: A His and Hers Personal Reflection

1 Billion Voices Project

LGBTQIA+ and Representation in the Media

Bisexuality - Life As A Unicorn

Navigating Emotional Processing: A His and Hers Personal Reflection

Part 2: Taking a Break from our Self-Care Routines

Part 1: Taking a Break from our Self-Care Routines

April 2020

Concept: The Patriarchy

The Caveats of Call-Out Culture

Rebuilding a Feminist Reality, Part 3: A World Without Men

Rebuilding a Feminist Reality, Part 2: Taking Justice Into Our Own Hands

After the Pandemic: Rebuilding A Feminist Reality, Part 1

Rosie's Story

Women in Health: A Series About the Complicated History Between Women and Medicine

5 Questions for a Feminist: Madeline

How Beauty Standards Have Reshaped Feminism

Women Writing about Women: Six Books to Read in Isolation

March 2020

'White Girls Really Can't Say Woke'

Concept: Toxic Masculinity

Our Word Against Theirs

The Hidden Dangers of COVID-19

Macro-Economics: Feminist Edition

5 Questions for a Feminist: Frances

5 Questions for a Feminist: Kristin

Mexico's 'Dirty Laundry' Exposed in Nationwide Protest against Femicide: An Interview with Ligia Ponce

5 Questions for a Feminist: Nina

The Toxicity of Simp Culture (Simp Shaming)

Where Are All the Women? Music Festival Edition

Love in the Time of COVID-19

February 2020

The Battle for Equal Pay for Women in Sport

Reforming Under-Trials at Asia's Biggest Jail Through A Life-Skills Curriculum

5 Questions for a Feminist: Kesharni

January 2020

Resources to navigate 2020 crises

Concept: Intersectionality

December 2019

Taking Up Space

How To: Self-Care During the Holidays

November 2019

Not just ‘good for a girl’

Low libido? Check your birth control pill!

‘Mind the abyss!?’ – Australian women and the superannuation gap

The second chance that would never be given to a woman

September 2019

"Ecofeminism" - what's in a name?

August 2019

Independence and Feminism: Alternatives to the Social Model of Disability

July 2019

Indigenous women you should be following online

No Justice for First Nations Women

Is the Social Model still relevant to the needs and experiences of disabled people?

Recipe for Social Change

The Power of having more Girls in Engineering

The Australian Government’s handling of Climate Change is Indicative of Its Racism

June 2019

From Sri Lanka to Australia - Life as a Working Mum

You don't have to be a political extremist to be homophobic

Why a whole school approach to mental health support is vital for young refugees

Domination redeployed: the entanglement of race and gender in the Australian Refugee and Asylum Seeker regime

May 2019

The Global Aspirations of Disenfranchised Women

The Meaning of Homelessness for LGBTQIA+ people

Queerness, Daphne, and Me

LGBTQIA+ in South Africa: The Legacy of Colonialism and Apartheid

The Antelope, The F*ckboy and The Closet

The intimate sanctity of Ramadan

April 2019

SLACKTIVISM – should we feel disparaged by the current state of social media activism?

Why does the female political identity still revolve around motherhood?

Leading while female: What does 'Gender Equality' mean across the political spectrum?

A Fashionable Rethink of Women's Empowerment

"What you project is what you believe": The Politics of Women's Fashion

March 2019

The Story of a Hustler

40+ innovations by under-privileged students

Coloured Experience

Global Feminism: the distortion of the White, Western Lens - Part 2

Global Feminism: the distortion of the White, Western Lens - Part 1

Leadership initiatives need to do more for Women of Colour

February 2019

Body Positivity, Part 2: Can BoPo Save Us From Diet Culture?

Body Positivity, Part 1: A Crash Course in Diet Culture

A History of Women in the Barkley Marathons

Brains, Part 3: The Link Between Autism and Gender Dysphoria

Brains, Part 2: The Gender Bias

Brains, Part 1: Brain Agender

Endometriosis: a lasting frontier for menstrual taboos

The Invisible Woman

From Delhi to Dubai: One Woman's Journey

The Gender Disparity in Suicidality is a Myth

Caring for Caregivers

January 2019

Breaking the Taboo with Comic books

What Feminism Has Taught Me About the Need For Emotional Literacy

Caring for Caregivers

December 2018

Reflections on an Evening With Malala

Why Don't Boys Like To Wear Pink? Eliminating Stereotypes at an Early Age

100+ disadvantaged girls learn to code

September 2018

The Capitalism of Self-Care

August 2018

Director's Cut: 5 things you can do to positively impact upon gender equality

Director's Cut: Sometimes the most feminist thing you can do is to simply exist

Director's Cut: One of the biggest challenges to feminism

Director's Cut: We do not need to 'empower' girls, we need to upskill them

Director's Cut: Five documentaries to inspire your activism

'It Takes Strength': A recap of the discussion on domestic violence in Queensland

Untold Stories: Sheetal Jain

A Conversation with Kristin Perissinotto, Powerlifter

A Conversation with Nicole Bray, Print Me Happy

A Conversation with Morgan Koegel, One Girl

A Conversation with Hayley Dunne, Little Delish

July 2018

A Conversation with Celia Boyd, SHE Investments

A Conversation with Tanzila Khan, Creative Alley

A Conversation with Renee Wootton, Qantas

A Conversation with Kate Marchesi, Young Queenslanders for the Right to Choose

A Conversation with Tamara Richardson, Pace48

A Conversation with Siân Tooker, Children by Choice

June 2018

A Conversation with Aimee Hourigan, TheStoryBoxes

A Conversation with Kate Marsh, Children by Choice

A Conversation with Amanda Bradley, Children by Choice

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The One Woman Project would like to acknowledge the owners of the land upon which our team members live and work. This land includes Meanjin (Yuggera and Turrbal people), Naarm (Wurundjeri people), Bundjalung (Yugambeh people), and Ngunnawal country.

All of our writers and contributors acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded, and that this ongoing colonisation has resulted in inter-generational trauma, violence, and erasure. We pay our respects to all Elders, past, present and emerging, and in particular, acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and non-binary folk, who have constantly led, and continue to lead, the feminist fight for justice.

To find out more about the land upon which you reside, please visit https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/map-indigenous-australia, or download the app here.


The OWP team values inclusivity, intersectionality and diversity, especially through the language we use. We actively aim to represent and include the voices of those who have been marginalised within non-intersectional, cis-gendered, white, heterosexual 'women's movements' in the past. This includes Black/Blak, Indigenous and Women of Colour, members of the neurodivergent or disabled communities, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, non-binary people, and all other intersectionalities whom experience violence under the white, colonial, and patriarchal society we live in.

As the feminist movement continues to progress, so too does our learning and individual education. If you have suggestions on how OWP can further improve the language we use, please email us at blog@onewomanproject.org.

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