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As debate continues around how Australia should approach its welfare payments the big business party is finding itself cracking under the pressure.
James Ardouin makes the case for decriminalising Abortion in NSW
Alexi Barnstone on why he feels the Democratic Debates were so disappointing.
Dominic Todd on wage theft and exploitation in the Sydney hospitality industry.
Feel nourished, creative and ready to take on semester 2!
Jocelin Chan with her take on the protests in Hong Kong and what the country stands to lose.
The Body Positivity movement has been hurtling toward this moment since Dove’s Real Beauty campaign.
Ranuka Tandan thinks you should drop the avocado snobbery
Alexi Barnstone on how claims of anti-Semitism can often stifle the discourse around human rights in Palestine.
Do hospitality awards have a misogyny problem?
I strongly believe the lock-out laws need to end, pill testing needs to be introduced and the crackdown on festivals needs to be stopped. However, I also believe that the ecological disaster facing the Murray-Darling needs to be addressed, the mistreatment of Indigenous peoples in prisons, schools, and any other public system needs to be addressed, and that the selling off of our roads and hospitals needs to be addressed, as does the funding cuts facing public educational institutions. KSO is only going to address one of these issues at the expense of all others, and quite frankly that’s not where our priorities should be.
Alexi Barnstone explains why he believes the rise of right-wing populism and alt-right violence is no coincidence.
So, this International Women’s Day, I encourage everyone, but especially gay men, to reflect on their behaviour and attitudes and seriously consider what they can do to be better. I encourage people to stop playing their oppression as a ‘get-out-of-jail-free-card’ and start LISTENING to the people around us. I encourage everyone to call others out when they’re sexist and to think a little more broadly. Intersectionality? Let’s get to know her.
Alexi Barnstone explores how wealth begets power. A horrible lesson he learned from some horrible people.
The immediate results of FOSTA-SESTA means that sex workers have been forced off the internet and onto the streets. US sex worker organisations have reported that the removal of these safety systems have led to reports of sex workers disappearing. The most heavily impacted have been the most marginalised (e.g. people of colour, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities and low-income people), as the targets of FOSTA-SESTA so far have mostly been free and low-cost platforms.
A “progressive” political movement that does not centre Indigenous rights and activism in its own work can never truly call itself progressive.
Tobias Lewis gives us his opinion on why there is so much power in nostalgia, especially in the political sphere.
“I want for you to talk about your illness and I want for you to feel validated when you do. I will not however continue to sit by as my experience and the experiences of countless other fat folk get pushed to the side by your need to explain why your illness makes your voice as important as ours in conversations about fatness despite your thin privilege.”
