When pornography is… normal, a whole population of men is primed to dehumanise women and to enjoy inflicting assault sexually……
WAAC meeting, 14 August: Reading and resouces
Pornography is the theory, and rape the practice. ― Robin Morgan, Theory and Practice: Pornography and rape, (1974) WEB…
Lessons in ventriloquism: Refocusing after the disruption at ASASE 2018
WAAC members were thrilled and excited on Saturday afternoon when real-live ‘sex worker activists’ disrupted the Australian Summit Against Sexual…
Rape culture: consciousness-raising materials
Here are the materials from our 3 July meeting on rape culture. They are in Word and PDF formats so…
Advertising and objectification: consciousness-raising materials
If you couldn’t make our 5 June meeting on advertising and objectification, here are the materials. Ad imagery Consciousness-raising notes:…
WAAC meeting, 3 July: Rape culture reading and resources
Not being assaulted is not a privilege to be earned through the judicious application of personal safety strategies. — Emily…
This is rape culture
Not sure what rape culture is? We live in a culture where rape is normalised, accepted, and legitimised based on…
Bras N Things find it “tough” to respond to scholarly evidence
Bras N Things find it “tough” to respond to scholarly evidence of the links between the sexualisation of women in…
‘Semester 2’ meetings schedule
Join us on the first Tuesday of every month for whichever session(s) you want: 6.30 pm. Help set up 6.45…
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We had many positive responses to the WAAC launch, with lots of women wanting to be ‘kept in the loop’.…
WAAC successfully launched!
We have liftoff! The Women’s Action Alliance Canberra (WAAC) is now officially A Thing, so the patriarchy is on notice.…
Shock report! Seears Workwear seemingly not so far from sexism as claimed!
Eleven-year-old Mollie told her mum, “I don’t want to go to Seears Workwear. It’s only for boys.” Simon from Seears…
Seears Workwear gets all emotional over short phone call from 11-year-old girl
Men are funny. They make us laff. Especially when they get all dramtic and emotional. When an 11-year-old girl phoned…
New challenge for Ad Standards
Will the amended advertising Code of Ethics make any real difference for women and girls? Recently, changes were made to…
Irrelevant, Bras N Things; Irrelevant Bras N Things
See what we did there with the vocative comma? A WAAC member recently wrote to Bras N Things to complain…
For the edification of womankind … NOT
Another sexist image sent to us by a WAAC member from again, you guessed it, Westfield Belconnen. As we’ve noted…
Women and helicopters: take the survey
Do you need to have a tertiary degree in semiotic analysis to spot sexism? We think not. Which is why…
New merchandise for 1 May meeting
Our Big Meeting is scheduled for 1 May — May Day, yay day! And to celebrate, we’ve got some new…
Plus ça change … Ad ‘standards’ no better after forty years
In a spooky specimen of ‘wot we sed’, WAAC has found a wretched example of how much things haven’t changed…
Sexist ad from BNT tells women to take it all off — and Westfield agrees
Here’s the text of a complaint lodged by a WAAC member in response to yet another sexist ad appearing in…
