Culture
Cheryl Strayed on the art of radical advice giving
Candice Chung "The reason most people don’t give good advice is they can’t separate their own judgement and opinion before telling us what we should do."
A collection of Adele Horin's work
Adele Horin's work often gave a voice to those otherwise unheard.
TV diversity
On the thrill of seeing first gen immigrant leads on TV
Neha Kale As writer Bim Adewunmi points out, race is not a Very Special Episode issue. It's a fact of life.
Twilight years
The value of spending time with our elders
Ruby Hamad It's callous to expect people to work their entire lives, only to be shunted away in old age. But there is another way.
Clementine Ford
A handy guide to the best feminist teaching tools online
Clementine Ford Clementine Ford shares some helpful go-to lessons for those moments when you need to explain gender inequality, consent or how privilege works.
'90s dance
The ten best/worst '90s dance tracks
Dom Knight Dom Knight takes us on a trip down objectively-horrible-but-miraculously-wonderful musical memory lane.
Growing up
Things I wish I'd known when I was 15
Clem Bastow Clem Bastow's advice to her younger self, inspired by a chance listening of Janet Jackson's 1997 classic, The Velvet Rope.
The fear of speaking up in the arts world
Koraly Dimitriadis "The arts industry is not built for people like me to succeed. It's built for the privileged."
Cup Day
Why you might want to rethink your Melbourne Cup themed Tinder profile photo
Clem Bastow Clem Bastow decodes the real message your race day picture sends out to a potential right-swiper.
The radical promise of TV's mentally ill women
Alyssa Rosenberg The anti-hero(ine) revolution in TV is finally turning around for women.
Amanda Keller: I've never had to play the girly role
Rosemarie Milsom How Amanda Keller has made it to the top of the radio game without being anyone's sidekick.
Gloria Steinem: 'We'll win. Because these bodies are ours'
Kirsten Tranter At 81, feminist legend Gloria Steinem has a new book, a full schedule, a sense of calm - and only the occasional urge to kill.
Feminism KPIs
Why feminism needs a new barometer for success
Ruby Hamad For Ruby Hamad, the freedom to eschew conservative, capitalist markers of 'success' is the true sign of empowerment.
Refugee crisis
I walked with migrants from Greece to Germany
Magdy Samaan Magdy Samaan encountered kindness and courage amid the many tales of misery.
In praise of feminist newsletters
Clementine Ford Why more women are gravitating towards writing in the newsletter format.
Sexist games
Why is the gaming industry still so accepting of sexual violence in games?
Tegan Jones "If the crude 'erotic' games of the '80s can inspire such disgust and vehemence, why don't modern games?", asks Tegan Jones.
Ridley Scott: Sexism is real, take it seriously
Maria Lewis When you look back at the almost 50-year career of iconic British filmmaker Ridley Scott, it’s not easy to discount his feminist vision.
Anti-femmo clickbait
If things said to female writers were clickbait headlines
Clem Bastow Clem Bastow: "I'm taking these dudes' hurtful, irritating or just plain stupid comments, emails and tweets, and turning them into something beautiful."
Deathbed regrets
We need to rewrite the 'deathbed regrets' list for women
Alice Williams "Most women I know have been socially-conditioned to already do these things on a daily basis, to our detriment," writes Alice Williams.
#WhyLoiter
Women in India are taking back male-dominated city streets at night with #WhyLoiter
Rob Moran "People will start looking at women not as possessions or property that need to be kept at home and preserved or safeguarded, but as fellow human beings that have equal right to public spaces as men do."
'Yelp for people': The app that lets everyone you know rate you
Caitlin Dewey Needless to say, it's inherently invasive, even when complimentary.
Bad Sex in Fiction Award
Why can't men write about sex?
Joel Snape With his widely panned first novel, Morrissey is the latest male author whose efforts to turn us on merely turn us off.
Clem Bastow
The one rom-com trope that's still affecting our love lives
Clem Bastow The movies tell us if your relationship doesn't start this way, you're probably not going to end up together. And somehow, we believe it.
#MedicatedAndMighty
Mum starts #MedicatedAndMighty selfie movement to help challenge mental health stigma
Rob Moran When Erin Jones shared a pic of herself holding her antidepressant prescriptions, others quickly followed.
Young adults
What our obsession with adult colouring books says about us
Neha Kale "While adult colouring might rekindle blissful childhood memories, it's also more insidious than it appears," writes Neha Kale.
Women writing war
Why more women need to tell war stories
Louise Williams Why Louise Williams - who's written about the legendary 'Great Escape' of WWII - hopes more women will take on military tales.
Photoshop Fix
Apple, Adobe criticised for digitally altering woman's face to smile more
Tim Biggs Many were left unimpressed after a demonstration of how the iPad Pro can transform into a woman's-face-improvenator device.
Q&A; recap: Laurie Penny makes salient point on casual sex and the hook-up culture
Andrew P Street Laurie Penny: "It's not sex that is bad for women, sexism is bad for women."
Cyberhate study
What I've learned from my study into gendered cyberhate
Dr Emma Jane Dr Emma Jane was a newspaper columnist in the late '90s when she first encountered misogynistic online harassment. Almost twenty years later, it's an epidemic.
Cultural appropriation
Why we shouldn't stop talking about cultural appropriation
Alyssa Rosenberg "Identifying cultural exchange and cultural appropriation should be the beginning of our conversations, not our final verdict," writes Alyssa Rosenberg.
Female gaze
Are we entering the golden age of the female gaze?
Neha Kale Something powerful happens when women become their own subjects, writes Neha Kale.
Celebrating abortion
We need more pop songs about abortion
Sarah Oakes Washington DC band 'Jack on Fire' think talking about the issue in a flip, cheery manner is important, so they're using music to normalise the conversation.
Internet amnesia
Can we make the internet forget mistakes we made as teens?
Caitlin Dewey Lately, more and more Internet-users are catching on to the slippery attraction of an 'eraser button'. But is it the silver bullet we're looking for?
Is TV leading a renaissance in onscreen romance?
Alyssa Rosenberg What happens to a romantic comedy after the main characters get together, decide to stay together and even have a baby? TV shows are exploring the answer.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks
Is YA becoming more diverse?
Neha Kale "Is it such a stretch for a medium capable of dreaming up boy wizards and dystopian netherworlds to extend its imaginative possibilities to the human experience?"
Five films about female sexuality we're looking forward to this year
Clementine Ford To say that female sexuality is every bit as complicated and desire driven as male sexuality is to state the obvious.
Win a copy of Wind/Pinball : Two Novels by Haruki Murakami
We're giving away 20 copies of Haruki Murakami's earliest novels published back-to-back as a beautiful reversible hardback.
Disapproval Matrix
How to handle too much feedback
Rex Huppke We're bombarded with feedback. Try running yours through Ann Friedman's Disapproval Matrix. It will help.
Dom Knight
Nine brilliant new ideas for cooking shows
Dom Knight We'd rather watch all of these than Restaurant Revolution, The Hotplate or another MasterChef.
Daily Life/ Penguin Random House Australia competition Ts and Cs
Win one of 20 books by Haruki Murakami.
Face-blind fails
The perils of being bad with faces
Nicole Elphick Do you fall into the 'face-blind' or 'face-genius' camp?
The best 80s 'movie night' films worth revisiting
Clementine Ford Remember Blockbuster and Video Ezy? Ah the eighties. We hardly knew ye.
Girls on film
Are teen girl films having a moment?
Nicole Elphick A few new movies are giving the teenage girl her rightful place on the silver screen, big heart and bad choices intact, writes Nicole Elphick.
Problematic pop songs
Four classic pop songs with problematic lyrics
Ruby Hamad "When even singers known for their activism can adopt language that unintentionally denigrates another, it proves how susceptible we all are to the unconscious biases that underpin our society," writes Ruby Hamad.
Harper Lee's new novel is as big as 'Harry Potter' in Amazon pre-orders
"Go Set a Watchman," the much-anticipated second novel by "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee, is the most pre-ordered print title on Amazon.com since Harry Potter.
Peak programming
They don't make tween shows like they used to
Clem Bastow A nostalgic love letter to the pre-adolescent programming of the '80s and '90s.
Sexist symbols
Facebook 'friends' icon gets a feminist tweak
It's so subtle you'd barely notice. But the symbolism is important.
Clem Bastow
When will male characters be used as props on TV?
Clem Bastow Remember Jerry's 66 girlfriends on Seinfeld? Yeah, exactly.
Is it time to rethink Kim Kardashian West?
Natalie Reilly From reality star to spokeswoman on the objectification of women in the media. Is it time to rethink KKW?
Online dating
The five covert sexists you meet while online dating
Suzannah Weiss Best to be informed, because trying to give some douchebag a feminist makeover is an ineffective use of your time, writes Suzannah Weiss.
Respectful jokes
Comedians you can laugh at without being repulsed
Clem Bastow Next time an old white comedian says something stupid, here are some reliable alternatives to turn to.
Jessica Hopper: An insider's guide to being a female rock critic
Neha Kale The author of the first female rock anthology opens up about women in music and sexism in the industry.
Dom Knight
Ten things that should have an undo function
Dom Knight Gmail just introduced 'Undo Send'. If only we had an 'undo' for these other things too, writes Dom Knight.
The legacy of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill and other feminist rockers of the '90s
Ruby Hamad In many ways, the album embodied the political, independent and angry spirit of the decade.
Antonia Hayes: Turning personal trauma into fiction
Benjamin Law For Antonia Hayes, the dark cloud of her son being diagnosed with shaken baby syndrome has a silver lining.
Lisa Wilkinson: TV hasn't always been kind to older women
Samantha Selinger-Morris How the Today show co-host fought inequality on air and at work -- and won.
Hillsong Church under pressure for inviting controversial pastor to Australian conference
Kate Aubusson Hillsong Church cops an almighty backlash for welcoming a shamed US pastor who railed against "penis-envying burned feministed single mothers", ABC's Lateline reports.
Entourage
'Entourage' is basically the film version of a pair of long khaki cargo shorts
Eleanor Robertson Every time you think it can't get any worse, it unrolls and drops another steaming turd in your lap, writes Eleanor Robertson.
Telling Tales
Reviving the lost art of spoken-word storytelling
Paul Chai All we have is our stories and if we tell them and share them, nothing can take them away, writes Paul Chai.
Married At First Sight
Ten reality TV ideas even better than Married At First Sight
Dom Knight How can the industry possibly top/sink beneath the latest reality TV hit? Dom Knight has some ideas.
