Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

How bullying sets the stage for the development of sexual harassment - My research shows that fifth and sixth graders in the U.S. who bully students often use homophobic name-calling such as “gay” or “fag,” especially ...

Donald Trump Hijacked My Holidays - Since my earliest memories, this time of year has always inspired the warm fuzzies in me. Not so this year. My feelings of joy have been subsumed by contravening feelings of fear, anxiety, and despair.  Last week, First Lady Michelle Obama gave voice to what I was having trouble putting into words: "We are feeling what not having hope feels like," she told Oprah Winfrey on CBS This Morning . The remarks were so simple and straight-forward, and yet they resonated with me so profoundly. 

The right-wing press are now mourning the death of a gay icon they vilified for so long - legacy of social rebellion and non-conformism in an age of restrictive respectability politics perpetuated by a virulently homophobic right-wing press.

Anyone who remembers George Michael solely for his music is missing the real importance of him - Public attitudes became much more homophobic . Gay-bashings and murders rocketed. It was a fearful period to be gay, let alone a gay public figure.

Immigrant fiction about Indians moves to Australia , and about time, too - Old and new Indians in Australia “clash” again in another complex and ... They encounter Indigenous Australia only when they help their kids with ...

SA, a state of homophobia and gay bashings. Wait, what? -  Violence towards LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people ... In 1975, South Australia was the first state in the nation to decriminalise ...

The man walking across Australia for Indigenous communities - Mr Pryor has walked across Western Australia , through the outback, the ... Mr Pryor said he had witnessed the poverty that existed in Australia , and ...

Time for co-ordination on Indigenous youth mental health - Yet the staggeringly high rate of Indigenous youth suicide in Canada is sadly not unique. Around the world, be it in Australia , New Zealand, Norway or ...