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Why Aren’t We Seeing More Child-Free Women On-Screen?

Why Aren’t We Seeing More Child-Free Women On-Screen?

by cjharris | Sep 26, 2020 | equality, feminism, film, popular culture, women

When I think about how women are portrayed on-screen, the final image in the 1999 romantic comedy Notting Hill comes to mind. In a montage laden with sentimentality, we are whisked through Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts’ romantic life — culminating in a scene on a park...
I Don’t Want to Have Kids Because of Climate Change – Stop Telling Me This Is Stupid

I Don’t Want to Have Kids Because of Climate Change – Stop Telling Me This Is Stupid

by cjharris | Jan 19, 2020 | current affairs, environment, equality, feminism, women

– These days, every time I open the news, there is reporting of yet another way in which the world is headed towards catastrophe. In the last week alone, we’ve seen bushfires in Australia, floods in Indonesia, record-breaking high temperatures, and accelerated...
Can We All Finally Acknowledge How Ridiculous the Monarchy Is?

Can We All Finally Acknowledge How Ridiculous the Monarchy Is?

by cjharris | Nov 22, 2019 | current affairs, equality, feminism, history

What is the actual point of the monarchy? I’m not British so I can’t pretend to understand the feeling of stability that having the same ruler for almost 70 years brings — but she is the Queen of Australia too so you’d think we would have figured out why by now. The...
Performing Virginity Checks on Women Is Nothing Short of Abuse

Performing Virginity Checks on Women Is Nothing Short of Abuse

by cjharris | Nov 10, 2019 | current affairs, equality, feminism, women

Full disclosure: until two days ago, I had never heard of a person (rapper?) called T.I. And now, thanks to Twitter, I know just one thing about him — that for the past few years, he has taken his 18 year old daughter to the doctor every birthday to check that her...
Every Time a Woman Is Murdered, I Wonder If It Could Have Been Me

Every Time a Woman Is Murdered, I Wonder If It Could Have Been Me

by cjharris | Jun 1, 2019 | current affairs, feminism, justice, women

A week ago, the body of Courtney Herron was found in a park down the road from where I live in Melbourne. She was not far from another park where Eurydice Dixon was murdered in June last year. In between those deaths, two other women were killed in a public space in...

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