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Holding activism lightly in the face of violence.

Holding activism lightly in the face of violence. Australian women face one of the greatest struggles for basic human rights they’ve ever faced.We have the vote, we have some semblance (lipservice) to equal pay, we can mostly put our children … Continue reading

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Why be an autonomous consumer of the healthcare system?

In recent years as midwife-assisted homebirth has become more topical in the mainstream press, so too freebirth* or family birth, has also become more widely known. Our culture of control over women means that the shock value of women birthing … Continue reading

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