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Act to prevent release of Kanye West’s monstrous women hating music video

Sign petition – say no to eroticised violence against women On December 10, I wrote an opinion piece titled ‘Who says female corpses aren’t sexy?’ for ABC The Drum...

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So decapitated women are fine with you Kanye West?

I’ll take mine dead, thanks. Horror porn is not ironic. [Trigger warning for victims of violence] When you look at this image, what do you see? An ambigious,...

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Monster video: a rape scenario set to a soundtrack

What’s entertaining about women in lingerie hanging by their necks on chains? What’s artful about images of drugged, unconscious women about to be sexually assaulted? Nothing. It’s misogyny,...

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Kan-ye be a fan of dead women? Kanye can.

Why won’t Kanye West repond to outrage against Monster video? Mass desensitisation to abuse and exploitation I’m not interested at all in going after Kanye West for the...

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MTR in The Punch: women aren’t playthings, slaves and bitches

  How convenient to caricature someone whose work you oppose by reducing them to a cartoon parody. Like I haven’t had enough Helen Lovejoy clichés to last a...

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I’ve got this other woman and the other woman is porn

Porn: the wrecking ball of authentic intimate relationships Came across this piece in the New York Magazine on the impact of pornography on male sexuality. It’s rare to see...

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Bitches get pregnant to get your money: why the Queen should cancel Kanye...

Dear Your Majesty, read this and re-consider I’m really not all that interested in Royal Weddings. I’m actually not all that interested in royal things in general (I...

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McFadden pledges profits to rape charity but sorry seems to be the hardest word

And another sexual assault survivor who isn’t laughing Late yesterday afternoon Brian McFadden sent these tweets: So, it seems he’s upset his song is “getting attention for the...

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MTV says no to Kanye West’s Monster video

Our campaign a success: thanks for speaking out against eroticised violence against women Time for some good news. This week my colleague Sharon Haywood of Adios Barbie received...

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90,000 signatures, 10,000 phone calls: Reebok drops rapper Rick Ross over...

‘We showed companies all over the world that rewarding rape is not just wrong, it’s a bad marketing strategy’ So happy to report some good news. U.S based...

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The issue is misogyny, not race

An article was published in The Guardian today about the campaign calling for Snoop Dogg’s visa to be revoked. Titled ‘White singers deserve the same scrutiny for sexism...

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