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Deepfakes and Cheap Fakes – Issues with Terminology and the Incorrect Labelling of Deepfakes

Deepfakes and Cheap Fakes – Issues with Terminology and the Incorrect Labelling of Deepfakes

In 2017, Motherboard journalist, Samantha Cole, was first to report on deepfakes in her article ‘AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We’re All Fucked’.…

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Take Up Space Unapologetically: Tackling Online Abuse

Take Up Space Unapologetically: Tackling Online Abuse

Learning about the tools and ways we can manage our privacy online is incredibly important in the digital age. We should all be equipped…

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Whoopi victim blaming Bella Thorne on intimate images is dangerous and harmful

Whoopi victim blaming Bella Thorne on intimate images is dangerous and harmful

Whoopi Goldberg is making headlines for victim blaming actress Bella Thorne for taking intimate images of herself. Thorne recently took to Twitter after being…

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Sexual predators edited my photos into porn – how I fought back

Sexual predators edited my photos into porn – how I fought back

TW: Image-based sexual abuse/sextortion   I am LITERALLY SHAKING with emotion as I share my TEDxPerth talk about my experiences of image-based abuse. It’s…

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Senate Passes Civil Penalty Regime to Combat Image-Based Abuse

Senate Passes Civil Penalty Regime to Combat Image-Based Abuse

Today the Senate passed the Enhancing Online Safety (Non-consensual Sharing of Intimate Images) Bill 2017 with some surprising, significant amendments. This Bill is part…

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Proposed Commonwealth Civil Penalties for Image-Based Abuse

Proposed Commonwealth Civil Penalties for Image-Based Abuse

The Commonwealth Government has introduced a bill, the Enhancing Online Safety (Non-consensual Sharing of Intimate Images) Bill 2017, aimed at prohibiting and deterring persons and…

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Image-Based Abuse: The Phenomenon of Digitally Manipulated Images

Image-Based Abuse: The Phenomenon of Digitally Manipulated Images

Image-based abuse, colloquially referred to as ‘revenge porn’ (‘revenge porn’ is a misnomer) is an umbrella term. It refers to the non-consensual sharing of intimate…

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Wibbly Wobbly Girly Whirly: Sci-Fi and Girl Power

Wibbly Wobbly Girly Whirly: Sci-Fi and Girl Power

Words: Jessica Sheridan Whovians are all astir this week following the BBC’s casting announcement for the next Doctor. It’s typically an exciting time for…

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11 Reasons Why Amber Rose’s SlutWalk Image is Transformative & Changes Social Discourse

11 Reasons Why Amber Rose’s SlutWalk Image is Transformative & Changes Social Discourse

Amber Rose is a feminist icon, trailblazer and champion of body positivity and women’s empowerment. She created the Amber Rose SlutWalk which is about to embark…

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Trading Pleasure for Consent

Trading Pleasure for Consent

Let’s get one thing straight: stealthing is sexual assault. You could be forgiven for not knowing what stealthing is, except that is part of…

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Poem of the Week: 13 Reasons Why Not

Poem of the Week: 13 Reasons Why Not

13 Reasons Why Not One If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it I know it feels it But you aren’t broken I promise Two…

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Is Body Neutrality the New Body Positivity?

Is Body Neutrality the New Body Positivity?

The body positivity movement encourages women, of all different sizes, shapes and colours to love their bodies. The movement inspires women to practice self-love – undeterred by…

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Mental Health Police: Thirteen Reasons Why You Should Stop

Mental Health Police: Thirteen Reasons Why You Should Stop

CW: The following article deals with themes portrayed in Thirteen Reasons Why including mental health, suicide and sexual assault. Please read on at your…

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The Price Women Pay for Embracing their Sexuality

The Price Women Pay for Embracing their Sexuality

I was just 10 years old when I hit puberty and I physically matured into a young woman very quickly.  I had C cups by…

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Australia: Criminalise ‘Image-Based Sexual Abuse’

Australia: Criminalise ‘Image-Based Sexual Abuse’

Australia needs to criminalise ‘image-based sexual abuse’. This includes: revenge porn – the non-consensual sharing of intimate images; morphed porn – the non-consensual doctoring of…

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Indians in Hollywood: The Diversity Dilemma

Indians in Hollywood: The Diversity Dilemma

Now more than ever before, the West is seeing the rise of Indians and people of Indian heritage in Hollywood, and it’s glorious. Lately, the likes of Priyanka…

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‘Not Your Honey’ – When Sexual Empowerment Disempowers

‘Not Your Honey’ – When Sexual Empowerment Disempowers

Words: Jessica Sheridan One of the difficult daily conundrums for women is the pressure to be sexy, but not too sexy. We are encouraged…

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Poem of the Week: ‘Shadow Truths’ by Carolyn Chorley

Poem of the Week: ‘Shadow Truths’ by Carolyn Chorley

Shadow Truths   The surface hides what is really true With a veil of smoke too thick to see through Some think they see…

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I Wear My War Paint For Me

I Wear My War Paint For Me

Words: Jessica Sheridan I’m going to discuss something very important to me: make-up. I can already hear you sighing. I can see you rolling…

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Pornographic Cybercrimes: Does the Law Protect Your Personal Privacy?

Pornographic Cybercrimes: Does the Law Protect Your Personal Privacy?

It seems like every other day we are hearing stories in the news of young girls taking their lives because their nude photos were…

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Poem: ‘Together’ by Carolyn Chorley

Poem: ‘Together’ by Carolyn Chorley

 A touch so gentle and tender With a sigh your heart must surrender And the delicate threads of your lonely soul Are gathered to…

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The Morning After Pill: A Breakdown

The Morning After Pill: A Breakdown

Babies and children aren’t for everyone. Sure, some are great. I mean, we all have that favourite younger family member who is cute, (mostly)…

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Yeah the Boys Meet Up, Third Wave Feminism Turns Up

Yeah the Boys Meet Up, Third Wave Feminism Turns Up

How many more times this year will I have to hear the same old excuse of locker room talk?

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Poem: ‘Winter’s Dance’ by Carolyn Chorley

Poem: ‘Winter’s Dance’ by Carolyn Chorley

Nature dances in her winter dress To a melody only she can hear And with an icy touch she does express What to her,…

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Being ‘Triggered’ is not a Joking Matter. STOP

Being ‘Triggered’ is not a Joking Matter. STOP

The use of the word or meme ‘triggered’ has become popular on social media. It is typically used as an insult or as a joke…

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Poem of the Week: ‘A Melding’ by Carolyn Chorley

Poem of the Week: ‘A Melding’ by Carolyn Chorley

A sigh, so delicate and tender That causes my soul to surrender A moan, so primal, so intense I swoon as it overcomes all…

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An Open Letter to the United States

An Open Letter to the United States

Dear United States, Hi, how are you? Been better? Sounds about right. My question for you today is very simple: how? How could you…

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How to not be insensitive this Halloween

How to not be insensitive this Halloween

Halloween is just around the corner! And because I love dressing up and getting candy free of charge, I am very excited. Even though…

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Poem of the Week: ‘Enticement’ by Carolyn Chorley

Poem of the Week: ‘Enticement’ by Carolyn Chorley

I stand alone on a blanket of bleached white My skin on fire from frozen angel tears My eyes blinking against citreous light As…

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Poem of the Week: ‘Black Spell’ by Carolyn Chorley

Poem of the Week: ‘Black Spell’ by Carolyn Chorley

A sudden pain, the dagger thrust a blow from behind, to kill all trust So deep the wound, as to not recover was this…

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Poem: ‘To lay in a stranger’s bed’ by Noelle Martin

Poem: ‘To lay in a stranger’s bed’ by Noelle Martin

To lay in a stranger’s bed In the earliest hours of the morning when darkness paints the city and all you can hear are…

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Critiquing the Criticisms of the ‘Regressive Left’

Critiquing the Criticisms of the ‘Regressive Left’

Lefties are often criticised for being regressive. I’m going to address the most common criticisms against us so-called ‘regressive lefties’: (1) that lefties are…

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Poem of the Week: ‘The Greatest Wars in History’ by Noelle Martin

Poem of the Week: ‘The Greatest Wars in History’ by Noelle Martin

The greatest wars in history are seldom told for they exist in the minds of every living soul that has ever wandered the Earth…

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Buying Love with Naked Currency: The Phenomenon of Sending Nudes

Buying Love with Naked Currency: The Phenomenon of Sending Nudes

Words: Jessica Sheridan Whenever I have broken up with a guy, I work through a standard check list of things to do: I need…

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Poem of the Week: ‘Fourteen’ by Jessica Sheridan

Poem of the Week: ‘Fourteen’ by Jessica Sheridan

When you’re fourteen you’re not ready Barely steady, barely standing Giddy for something A beautiful anything To fill in the blanks. There are sketches…

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Madonna Shuts Down Sexist Social Expectations on Women

Madonna Shuts Down Sexist Social Expectations on Women

Society says that once a woman becomes a wife, has kids or reaches a certain age then they are no longer allowed to express…

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A Cautionary Tale of Sexual Cybercrime: The Fight to Reclaim my Name

A Cautionary Tale of Sexual Cybercrime: The Fight to Reclaim my Name

This is a cautionary tale of my experiences as a victim of sexual cybercrime. I’m filled with fear, hesitancy and an overwhelming sense of…

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Eastern Women in the West: Culture or Sexual Liberation?

Eastern Women in the West: Culture or Sexual Liberation?

For most of my life I thought the talk about ‘the birds and the bees’ was just a thing of movies, where the parents…

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Skinny is Not a Prerequisite to Happiness

Skinny is Not a Prerequisite to Happiness

Words: Jessica Sheridan When I was 18 I was fat. Not as fat as I am right now, but still generically fat. I had…

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Stop Protecting Rapists

Stop Protecting Rapists

Words: Jessica Sheridan This morning I woke up to find yet another headline that has become all too familiar over the past few months:…

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The Silhouette of Slut Shaming

The Silhouette of Slut Shaming

She doesn’t fuck around, she’s a good girl. Ever heard that before? How about ‘look at what she’s wearing, has she no self-respect.’ What…

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The Nightclub Scene: The Place of Normalised Sexual Violence

The Nightclub Scene: The Place of Normalised Sexual Violence

I’m literally sick and tired of being groped every time I go out to the clubs. I went to the club this weekend with…

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Slaves to Validation

Slaves to Validation

To seek validation is to seek approval from others or to feel the need to be of value to others. Nobody is immune from…

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Do we need a Men’s Rights Movement?

Do we need a Men’s Rights Movement?

I arrived at the question of a men’s rights movement as a sceptical, self-proclaimed feminist.  After extensive research, I’ve remained a self-proclaimed feminist, still…

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The Unknowing Victims: Revenge Porn, Parasite Porn and Morphed Porn

The Unknowing Victims: Revenge Porn, Parasite Porn and Morphed Porn

It was 2am on a Saturday night and unlike my typical weekend of wild partying, I was enjoying a quiet night in. Little did…

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The Anatomy of a Bitch

The Anatomy of a Bitch

Have you ever been called a bitch? Have you ever called someone a bitch? Have you ever thought someone was a bitch? Let’s be…

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Kim Kardashian West: A Modern Day Heroine?

Kim Kardashian West: A Modern Day Heroine?

Kim Kardashian West is a modern day heroine. There, I said it. This may come as an affront to the work of eminent heroines…

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