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What’s Your Flower?
SALIHA REHANAZ | CREATIVES Sunflowers, Lavenders, Pansies and Onions. “Not a red rose or a satin heart, I give you an onion. It is a moon...
Nov 30, 2021


The Campus Lowdown
WOMEN ENTERING BUSINESS | NEWS Behind every successful woman is a tribe of other successful women who have her back. Women Entering...
Nov 27, 2021

NEWSFLASHES: JoJo Siwa’s Same-Sex Partner on Dancing with the Stars
NIKITA BYRNES | NEWS Joelle Joanie “JoJo” Siwa made headlines in America in late August 2021 with her announcement that she would be the...
Nov 27, 2021
Red Rising: A series by Pierce Brown
ELEANOR TAYLOR | REPEAT OFFENDERS Hey besties, we need to talk about Pierce Brown. Pierce Brown has written one series of books; the Red...
Nov 27, 2021
Horoscopes
GRACE PHAM | REPEAT OFFENDERS LEO: This is your season lions! Don’t just let anyone pull your tail and call you kitty! ARIES: I know, I...
Nov 27, 2021

Review: Invisible Women
ELEANOR TAYLOR | REPEAT OFFENDERS Invisible Women was written by Caroline Criado Perez and released in 2018 and explores the lack of data...
Nov 27, 2021

Feminist Resources 2021
JENNIFER LE | GRACE PHAM | REPEAT OFFENDERS BOOKS Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall This book is honestly a must for everybody, especially...
Nov 27, 2021

Black Widow (2021): Villainy and fear through the female gaze.
MUSKAN KHADKA | REPEAT OFFENDERS Marvel’s Black Widow starring Scarlett Johanson was never not going to be a success. The long awaited...
Nov 27, 2021

All the ways to heat your wax strips so the wax actually sticks to your hairs
BRUNA GOMES | CREATIVES Put them in the microwave. Wrap them in a wheat bag that you’ve microwaved. Fold the strips into a towel and...
Nov 27, 2021

Cousin, for you
ASHLEY DUCK | CREATIVES you are gone and past and yet passing tones on warm breath say never forgotten to me, you are the tide sweeping,...
Nov 27, 2021

I’m in love with the shape of you
OLIVIA CHAN | CREATIVES It was overplayed at one point, Blending into our social fabric Like small talk he made at a pit stop On the way...
Nov 27, 2021

The Broken Column
SWAGATALAKSHMI ROYCHOWDHURY | CREATIVES An adaptation of Robert Frost’s poem ‘A Passing Glimpse.’ Trigger warning: Mentions sexual...
Nov 27, 2021

Monash University Student App to Connect Students During the Pandemic
NIKITA BYRNES | NEWS Monash University student Richard Osakwe was tired of having to constantly re-adjust to uni life when Victoria was...
Nov 26, 2021

Book Review: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
MADI SCOTT | REPEAT OFFENDERS Poor Ernie Diaz. Goddamn Don Adler. Gullible Mick Riva. Clever Rex North. Brilliant, Kind hearted, Tortured...
Nov 24, 2021


Is It Time?
CREATIVES|KAVERI TALUKDER White rain Against a dark black sky. Muddy dirt Clings to my Worn-out shoes. In I walk To a mirrored hallway,...
Nov 24, 2021


The Rise and Fall of the Sukeban Girls
FEATURES|TIFFANY FONG In the 1960s, Japan saw an increase in all-female street gangs, mostly made up of teenage girls. These gangs are...
Nov 24, 2021


Frida Feminist Club
FEATURES|BRUNA GOMES For feminists, Frida is a symbol. Her paintings and ethics are a stronghold for third-wave feminism, intersectional...
Nov 24, 2021


YesOut of Myself
REGULARS|LOUISE REID Old(er) people aren’t too old for study! I’d been 49 when we moved to Australia in 2005. For me, that certainly...
Nov 15, 2021


You Are Here: Macquarie in Lockdown
REGULARS|SALIHA REHANAZ It’s a Monday morning. I wake up to the blaring sound of my alarm and internally scream at myself for the...
Nov 15, 2021


Legally Blonde: What, like being a feminist is hard?
REGULARS|NIKITA BYRNES It is September 2021. New South Wales is still in lockdown, and I am looking for ways to procrastinate some very...
Nov 15, 2021


I Don't Get It: Coercive Control
REGULARS|ELEANOR TAYLOR Domestic Violence isn’t always physical and it’s time we talked honestly about it. What is Coercive Control?...
Nov 15, 2021


Illustrated: Female Identifying Icons
REGULARS|JAIME HENDRIE In the nature of the Illustrated section of Grapeshot, I have compiled an incredibly biased list of...
Nov 15, 2021
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