University of Queensland (UQ) Executive Dean of Arts Fred D鈥橝gostino said last month the gender studies major would be cut from the Bachelor of Arts program.
No student commencing next year would have the option of majoring in this area.
Gender studies has a 41-year history at the university. The program was won in the early 1970s by the powerful feminist movement of the time.
It was the first of its kind in Australia and one of the first in the world.
Rosa Louverture
This is an extract from a zine written by . You can pick up a copy from a Resistance stall on campus during Orientation week.
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Like any other day, a female student is on her way to campus. As she rides her bike down the main road, a head pops out a moving car window and yells out to her: 鈥淣ice legs!鈥 Later that day she receives a text from one of the men in her group assessment task who she barely knows: 鈥淗ey beautiful we should definitely have a beer sometime ;)鈥.
A by a leading member of the US International Socialist Organisation, Sharon Smith, represents an important contribution the discussions of socialists and activists on women鈥檚 liberation.
The struggle for socialism is a unifying struggle that encompasses many other movements to end all forms of oppression and exploitation. All progressive struggles are the business of socialists and socialist parties. At the same time, all struggles are strengthened by Marxist-educated, highly conscious activists.
The news of Jill Meagher's death has rightly distressed many Australians. However, much mainstream media and internet commentary have taken this as an opportunity to blame the victim for what happened to her in an effort to warn other women. This approach is both despicable and wrong.
Melbourne writer , "Can we please stop the victim blaming?"
About 80 activists and artists gathered outside the Queensland Government Executive Building on April 13 to voice their discontent over the axing of the Premier's Literary Awards.
The picket was called by Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of South Brisbane in the April 28 by-election, Liam Flenady, and Hannah Reardon-Smith, both of who are also artists.
鈥淪crapping the Premier鈥檚 Literary Awards in the name of budget savings makes no sense,鈥 Reardon-Smith said. 鈥淭he $244,000 saved amounts to a mere 0.00028% of what we鈥檙e told by Campbell Newman is our state鈥檚 $85 billion debt.
Hundreds of people donned as much green as they could find on March 10 and crammed into the Irish Murphy鈥檚 pub in Brisbane to start their celebrations for St. Patrick鈥檚 Day a week early. But on the opposite street corner, about 80 women and their supporters gathered in recognition of the many injustices still faced by women in Australia and around the world today.
Ana Borges from Women鈥檚 House opened the International Women's Day rally with a powerful statement that recognised the world of contradictions women live in, where their every move is subject to criticism by the status quo.
Self described Melinda Tankard Reist recently against blogger Jennifer Wilson for saying Reist is a Baptist. Wilson鈥檚 article, on her blog No Place for Sheep, .