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…
Westfield are powerless to use their power to make change in Australia
Ah, Breastfield. Everyone’s favourite sex mall. You can go there for your dildos, now. Recently, a WAAC member made complaints…
At the shelter
A heartbreaking image by Geoffroy van der Hasselt.
Is Ad Standards gaslighting women?
It will come as no shock to learn that the notion that the advertising industry could possibly regulate itself is…
Bras N Things say women “should” embrace wearing lingerie
Not even retailers believe their own bullshit ‘choice’ rhetoric when they try to silence criticism of the objectifying representations of…
Why are you a feminist?
Grumpy Princess and Mary Daly deconstruct patriarchal narratives
Myths and fairytales are particularly vulnerable to feminist analysis, as they so transparently buttress male privilege, reinforce gender stereotypes, and…
