Arts + Culture

The Spirit of Womanism

When Winnie Dunn thinks of the women who have shaped her, she thinks of one woman in particular: her grandmother.

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Becoming Shelf Aware

Literature is something I have always loved. By the time I reached university, I could quote Fitzgerald lines about mysterious green light or the elusive American Dream but the only women in my favourite books were objects of desire or disdain. I was a strident feminist, posters on my wall, proud attendee of Slut Walk and yet, my reading didn’t match. I was stuck reading books I was told were ‘classics’ or ‘essential reading’ without realising none of them contained any women like me.  During an English Literature class in my third...

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A message for every woman

Learn about the history behind these iconic feminist artworks by Carol Porter and the contemporary counterparts by Michelle Pereira.

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Resilience is Strength

"I am a daughter of the grey stone and white sand, of the arid, windswept coast, of the salty, black, closed-mouthed estuaries. My grandmother’s country is stoic, strong I know it will be there forever; waiting for me to return. The bones of my ancestors are in that place, the water is in our veins, the sky is our roof."

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