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…
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…
The WRAP #6 : FGM/C, Housing Hope and 60 seconds with Azam Naghavi
Happy New Year If you’re already struggling to stick to your new year’s resolutions as the first month of 2013 draws to a close: the good news is there are another eleven months to keep on trying. There’s always a…
What we can achieve in one generation
This 6th February marks a decade since the then First Lady of Nigeria, Mrs Stella Obasanjo officially declared the date as the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C). Five years later in 2008, the UN Population…
When a house is a home
All the talk of the gender salary gap and whether or not you can you live on $32 a day as a sole-parent could be enough to make you despair (who would have thought there would be gender-gap deniers, and…
60 seconds with Azam Naghavi
PhD Scholar and international student If you could have any job in the world, what would it be? Being a teacher. I was a teacher and a counsellor and when I go back to Iran, I’ll be teaching at university.…
The WRAP #4, November: Still birth, international students & 60 seconds with Maria Hach
Welcome to the WRAP number 4. As many of you would have already gathered from our chats here on the WRAP, we are pretty keen on statistics. When we can find them, that is. But, no matter how compelling or shocking…
Ethnicity plays a role in the stillbirth story
Australia was recently ranked 7th among 165 countries around the world for best places to be a mother. This is a truly fine achievement – an acknowledgement of the relative privilege many women in Australia enjoy. But before we start…