Articles
When Empowerment Becomes a Marketing Slogan for Lingerie BrandsWalk into any shopping centre in Sydney or Melbourne and the lingerie shop windows promise empowerment, confidence, feeling fierce. Brands have decided that…
Why the Not Like Other Girls Trope Keeps Haunting YA FictionThe heroine wrinkles her nose at the mean girls, refuses pink, and announces she prefers her dad's old band to whatever the popular kids listen to. The reader…
Canadian Film's Blind Eye on Indigenous Women Behind the CameraCanadian cinema routinely sweeps the international circuit with dramatic features, prairie vistas, and quiet character studies. Yet a stubborn pattern…
The double bind women directors navigate between art and commerceFor decades, women working behind the camera have been steered toward one of two narrow lanes: make something quiet, personal, and unmistakably…
What Hannah Montana Nostalgia Reveals About Millennial FemininityThe early 2000s have become a fertile ground for millennial women revisiting the cultural touchstones of their girlhoods, and few artefacts loom larger than…
How Sturgeon's law silences women in internet comment sectionsTheodore Sturgeon's claim that "ninety percent of everything is crud" has aged into something sharper in the era of user-generated content. Applied to internet…
The Politics of Women's Sportswear: From Corsets to Compression ShortsFor most of recorded fashion history, what women have worn while moving has been decided by someone else. Whether cinched into whalebone, bound in elastic, or…
Why the pick me girl trope harms solidarity among womenThe “pick me girl” is presented as a woman who seeks male approval by distancing herself from other women. She may insist she is “not like other girls”,…
The Crown and the quiet erasure of feminist historyThe Crown arrives on Australian screens as a prestige drama that insists the Windsors deserve our empathy and our long Sunday afternoons. For viewers in…
When the Algorithm Draws Her: AI Art and the Women It Leaves BehindFor years, female illustrators have built careers on craft and a willingness to keep showing up when the pay was rubbish. Generative tools promise efficiency…