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General Pants Co and Ksubi: Selling objectification of women

Don’t support the marketing of female inequality Clothing retailers General Pants Co and Ksubi got together and made this: This image of a woman, her top half naked...

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Pornography: Who’s sleeping with whom? Challenging stereotypes about porn’s...

‘The central issue about pornography for a woman on the left like me is sexual subordination and how to end it’ Opponents of pornography are prudes, moralisers, hung...

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Selling women hatred as freedom: why porn is not liberating

Big Porn Inc contributors continue to get a significant run in the media. In the lead up to our Brisbane launch tonight, here are recent pieces by Dr...

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Remembering Puangthong Simaplee: a life prostituted and ended at 27

What passing bells for those who die as cattle? By Dr Helen Pringle Ten years ago, Puangthong Simaplee died at the age of 27. She had been picked...

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The Pornification of Julia Gillard

Framing Gillard in pornographic terms is part of a concerted backlash against women in power, argues Dr Helen Pringle This is an edited extract from an essay by...

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How Wicked Campers intimidate, threaten and demean women

Wicked assigns women and girls to a place of inferiority: Dr Helen Pringle …Wicked Campers is a serial offender at the Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB), which has formally considered dozens...

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A Wicked Victory

People power forces Wicked Campers to withdraw misogynistic marketing Wicked Campers withdraws sexist slogans from vans after 110,000-strong change.org petition; petition starter Paula Orbea says it’s...

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Disempowered men, lynch mobs and breast binding advice for girls

Two of my favourite women writers were published in ABC Religion and Ethics on the same day this week. Dr Helen Pringle (long time collaborator and contributor to...

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