What characterizes women as a group is our colonized status. To be colonized is not to think for oneself, to think on behalf of the other, to put o...

What do you do when you fall in love with your next-door neighbour? You peer at each other through a hole in the fence and eventually climb over. S...

But what did teenage girls in country towns want with Latin and French and art? What use would it be to them? The literary longings of a studious g...

An oriole sings to a dying father. A bleeding-heart dove saves the day. A crow wakes a woman's resolve. Owls help a boy endure isolation. Cockatoos...

Faith and Evelyn are close friends, neighbours, and single mothers of Luke and of Mitch – and both bear the scars of the trauma of colonisation and...

The backlash against feminism has been documented powerfully by Naomi Wolf and Susan Faludi: within the lesbian community too, there has been a par...

During the pandemic, Melbourne became the most locked down city in the world, restricting five million people largely to the confines of their home...

‘You ask too many questions, Matilda. It’s not becoming in a girl.’ But Matilda is full of questions. It’s the late 1800s in rural New South Wales ...

Muses have been sacked' their role in the pantheon, sold up for some new, real estate venture. When the Muses are sacked, what are we to do? The Mu...

The wooden stair was just as she had imagined it, even down to the creak in its second-to-bottom step. But the tower room was lovely beyond anythin...

The sun is our closest star just average a middle-aged dwarf past its prime but still a few billion years to go and fierce is its heat Its domains:...

The history of Coogee’s McIver’s Ladies Baths – Australia’s only ocean pool reserved for women – is eloquently told in these stories from women who...

It began with the Battle of Çanakkale. It was hand-to-hand killing, the physical closeness of its soldiers unmasking the depersonalisation of the p...

Angelica's twelve -- and no angel, as she says herself. But does she deserve this crazy situation? Why? Why? Why? She punches on the keys of the co...

In this one-of-a-kind anthology, lesbian sisters from several countries explore their relationships with one another. Through their words and photo...

"You can never be too thin or too rich", said Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor. But Francesca Miles, independent feminist detective, disagrees. W...

"Surrogacy is not liberty. It is a crime. Women will not settle for junk liberty. We want real freedom – the substance, not just the appearance. We...

They call them ‘women of love', but the lyrical beauty of the term has a hidden dark side: a workforce of very young girls tasked with feeding thei...

Transgenderism in the twenty-first century is patriarchy emblazoned in imperial form. At a time when supposedly enlightened attitudes are champione...

In this thought-provoking collection of articles drawn from her blog, The 11th Hour, Jennifer Bilek delves into the intricate relationship between ...

In this ground-breaking book, Judy Atkinson skilfully and sensitively takes readers into the depths of sadness and despair and, at the same time, r...

'Travelling Alone Together': It is 1993 and a group of elderly women are travelling the same route as the explorer Edward John Eyre on his 1840-41 ...

Trigger Warning: My Lesbian Feminist Life is both an engaging autobiography and a fascinating account of feminist history. From the heady days of t...

Feminists speak about important political issues because the lives of women are complex. Recognising how power works and in whose favour underlies ...