Eighty-nine-year-old Doreen Wendt-Weir is well accustomed to strangers approaching her to enquire about her love life. The popularity of her self-published book, which saw Doreen adopt the nom de plume of Evangeline to interview over active seniors as a means of destigmatising the sex lives of older people, means she is now the goto authority on the sexual appetites of Septuagenarians, Octogenarians and Nonagenarians. She also makes regular appearances across all forms of print, online and broadcast media. But while the dawn of the internet and more relaxed attitudes to sexuality are resulting in changing sexual behaviours among this age group. The issue remains largely a taboo subject.
As , 'Dolly Doctor' has allowed Melissa Kang to play a part all the rage changing the discourse around sexuality designed for girls and young women. Melissa after that her daughter, Research Assistant Georgia Carr, are working together to develop an elective subject called Adolescent Sexual after that Reproductive Health. When I think a propos it in retrospect, my whole aim, from the very beginning, in defective to take on Dolly Doctor came from a very feminist perspective. Designed for girls and young women, even all the rage a country like Australia, sexuality is highly taboo and highly stigmatised; we constantly ram negativity down their throats.
After everyone else last year, as a way of participating in a campaign of activism, Elizabeth Broderick decided that for 16 days she would start all her speeches, regardless of their subject, along with a discussion of gender-based violence. She did it at a financial culture conference, surprising a few of the financiers in the room, and she does it again when I amble into her airy office, high beyond the CBD. Credit: Gary Heery. She's an excellent speaker, intensely personable, after that she launches straight into a account about a woman she met a moment ago at a refuge in Queensland. All the rage a charcoal-grey skirt suit with pale pink lipstick and her hair raked into a ponytail, she looks akin to someone who was head girl by her high school - which, of course, she was, at Meriden Anglican school for girls in Strathfield. Ahead of she took this job, she wasn't screaming down the patriarchy or burying herself in feminist texts. She was a partner and head of above-board technology at a law firm, Blake Dawson Waldron.
