Recently I was invited to contribute to an anthology, edited by Melinda Tankard Reist, titled ‘Getting Real: Challenging the sexualisation of girls’ (Spinifex Press). This extremely important publication documents and explores the harms done to girls by a culture that tells them that being thin, hot and sexy is the most important thing they have [...]
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Challenging the sexualisation of girls
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