Wine lover, General Manager and team motivator at ‘Proud Mary’ cafe. What are you enjoying doing at the moment? I’ve been getting into gardening. I’ve just moved out to Northcote and I’m really into becoming more sustainable and actually knowing…
Position Paper on International Student Access to Pregnancy-Related Care
Through the On Your Own research project we undertook in 2011 with international students in Melbourne, we found that the minimum requirements of the Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC) Deed pose significant obstacles to female international students who fall pregnant…
Continuing the Discussion about Feminism
3CR Community Radio has recently broadcast parts of our March seminar ‘Does feminism speak for all women?’ The national women’s current affairs program, Women on the Line, featured discussions from all three of our speakers: Durkhanai Ayubi, a Senior Policy…
The WRAP #10 : Ticking all the boxes, justice for women in prison and 60 seconds with Juliana Qian
May has been a month of mind expansion and making friends. The 7th Australian Women’s Health Network Conference was three days of empowering feminist discussion about why, at every level of health service delivery and decision making, gender matters. No…
Ticking all the boxes
Budi Sudarto, is gay, Asian and proud. And at the 8th National LGBTI Health in Difference conference a few weeks ago we heard him, a peer education coordinator from the Victorian AIDS Council, make the interesting observation that “we live…
Justice for women in prison
“Injustice anywhere,” Martin Luther King famously wrote in his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” “is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” We tend to think…
60 seconds with Juliana Qian
Shanghainese/Melburnian cultural critic, media maker and poet-provocateur If you were a super-heroine, what powers would you like to have? Precognition. But most likely it’d just make me really anxious. Maybe to have an endless appetite with no hunger. Good for…
Launch of the Bbkayi Report
Bbkayi means Baby plus two in Cantonese. It’s the title of a report which outlines the enablers and barriers for Chinese women in the City of Whitehorse to access antenatal, maternal and parent support. The study found that family and…
Invitation to Public Forum: 'Does Feminism Speak for All Women?'
Feminism is making a comeback. In Australia, feminism is increasingly becoming a part of pop culture, politics, and a dominant topic in the world of social media. Internationally, struggles by women all over the world are adding to the significance…
The WRAP: International Women’s Day Edition
International Women’s Day! March 8 is a special day for women all over the world. It’s a day to celebrate women in all their political, cultural, generational, spiritual, physical, and economic variety which is quite a lot of celebrating, so…