‘Pornland’ author Gail Dines in Sydney

On 24th May, Collective Shout is co-hosting an event, giving you the chance to hear from a world expert on porn and it’s affect on society as it becomes absorbing into pop culture. Come and meet Gail and hear what she has to say. See the P*rnland Invitation for details. RSVP to Collective Shout 

It’s really all about topless girls

I spotted this Supre ad on a bus tonight Here’s a closer look (from their website)  You probably can’t see it but in the ad on the bus, on the bottom left it says ‘It’s all about jeggings”. Let’s leave aside that jeggings are possibly the worst thing to happen to fashion ever, why isn’t [...]

The Right to Childhood Conference

Examining the Convergence of Sex, Violence, the Media, Commerce & Popular Culture, Its Impact on Our Children and What We Can Do About It Details here.    

City Beach sells R rated toys with kids toys

From Collective Shout This product was found in City Beach at Indooroopilly shopping centre in Qld. ‘Grow your own big tits’ – an adult novelty toy with a cartoon picture of a topless woman, a prominent R rating and warning label on the pack that this is not for children. Other text includes ‘Wow! knockout [...]

Lynx Stynx!

CollectiveShout have had some great wins this week with campaigns that have resulted in action from Bonds, Gold Coast Turf Club and now Woolies, who have withdrawn from a Lynx promotion. But the Lynx brand needs to hear more from women AND men who oppose its sexist and objectifying advertising. So CollectiveShout have launched the [...]

A win for our girls

Yesterday CollectiveShout published this post about Bonds range of ‘bralettes’ which start at size 6. Size 6, of course is for 6 year olds. Hopefully I don’t need to explain the problem there. Today they have reported this media release from Bonds, in response to yesterdays concerns voiced by CollectiveShout and their members Media Statement [...]

Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation

Collective Shout is a new grassroots campaigns movement mobilising and equipping individuals and groups to target corporations, advertisers, marketers and media which objectify women and sexualise girls to sell products and services. Who should get involved? Collective Shout is for anyone concerned about the increasing pornification of culture and the way its messages have become [...]

My letter to Lovable

Melinda Tankard Reist has written an article this week about Lovable’s new ad campaign. Please read these and consider spending a few minutes writing to Lovable about them. CollectiveShout has some tips on what you might like to include in your message. You can read Melinda’s letter here. And here is mine. I writing to [...]