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Coming Event: Behind The Looking Glass Screening in Sydney
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Coming Event: Behind The Looking Glass Screening in Sydney

Emma PeelMarch 1, 2025March 1, 2025
EXCLUSIVE SCREENING of Behind The Looking Glass, a film about the lives of women whose partners have or want to ‘transition’. https://respectoursex.org/lookingglass/
Josh Szeps on the Newsroom Capture at the ABC
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Josh Szeps on the Newsroom Capture at the ABC

Emma PeelFebruary 27, 2025February 27, 2025
We've spoken about Josh Szeps before. Back in 2022, his broadcast on Radio National was one of several fractures that Women's Cooee saw developing at the ABC. Since then Josh...
KID-TRANSING REVIEWS: Who Pats Didn’t Talk to, and What She Didn’t Tell Us 
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KID-TRANSING REVIEWS: Who Pats Didn’t Talk to, and What She Didn’t Tell Us 

Vera FignerFebruary 17, 2025February 18, 2025
The last week of January saw big action in Australian kid-transing. On Tuesday 28th, the Queensland government announced it was going to conduct an independent review into puberty blockers, and...
IS CHAS STILL A TRANSPHOBE? The PRISM Correctness Collective investigates
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IS CHAS STILL A TRANSPHOBE? The PRISM Correctness Collective investigates

Emma PeelJanuary 30, 2025January 30, 2025
The following report was found on a USB stick in a briefcase abandoned at Tullamarine airport. (Secret TERFs are everywhere.) We are unable to vouch for the document’s authenticity but...
Somebody – apart from us – has finally said it
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Somebody – apart from us – has finally said it

Vera FignerDecember 17, 2024December 17, 2024
(Not in words though …) Over the last couple of weeks there’s been a new rush of experts telling the ABC what it ought to do to get its audience...
They’re a downer
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They’re a downer

Vera FignerNovember 9, 2024December 17, 2024
‘They’ as a singular pronoun for an identified person? Aunty, it’s not going to happen; and trying to make it happen just makes your journos look incompetent – and exasperates...
The Vocabulary of Misogyny 
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The Vocabulary of Misogyny 

Vera FignerOctober 27, 2024December 17, 2024
The NSW Parliament crumbled to the trans lobby on 17 October and passed Alex Greenwich’s ghastly ‘Equality’ bill.  Jeremy Fernandez, trans-lobby moonlighter, heralded the imminence of this triumph for misogyny...
Go Hard Girl! gets a whole new meaning …
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Go Hard Girl! gets a whole new meaning …

Vera FignerOctober 15, 2024October 16, 2024
Go Hard Girls podcast Other Side of the Pitch is nothing but an obsequious celebration of a man in women’s soccer in the Philippines. And ‘our’ ABC is behind it. ...
AND THE WINNER IS … 
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AND THE WINNER IS … 

Melissus28September 16, 2024September 16, 2024
’Twas a hotly contested competition, as Vera’s and Emma’s goggleboxing demonstrates, but in the end it’s sports journo Samantha Lewis (‘she/they’) who takes gold for Worst ABC Piece on the...
Paris Goggleboxing: Speculations and Misconceptions on TV News NSW 7pm
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Paris Goggleboxing: Speculations and Misconceptions on TV News NSW 7pm

Melissus28September 9, 2024September 11, 2024
Vera Figner and Emma Peel react to the ABC TV coverage of the boxing scandal at the Paris Olympics Saturday 10th August ABC TV News NSW 7 pm Nakari Thorpe,...

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  • The Good Fight
  • Shout-Out to Linton Besser
  • Poore Marks For Hugh
  • More women’s sport, more woeful ABC reportage 
  • ANOTHER ABC FIB ABOUT KIRRALIE SMITH!
  • Twisting in the Wind on Telfer
  • ABC SCHTUM ON STRUM 
  • ABC EnCompassed 
  • Tell the ABC: What issue matters to you this federal election?
  • Coming Event: Behind The Looking Glass Screening in Sydney
  • Josh Szeps on the Newsroom Capture at the ABC
  • KID-TRANSING REVIEWS: Who Pats Didn’t Talk to, and What She Didn’t Tell Us 
  • IS CHAS STILL A TRANSPHOBE? The PRISM Correctness Collective investigates
  • Somebody – apart from us – has finally said it
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