Press Coverage

Believable evidence in the #MeToo era

May 2024

Baker, A.  (2024, May 1). “Believable evidence in the #MeToo era: Another day of struggle for victim-survivors”. Monash Lens.

Four months into 2024, 33 women in Australia have been murdered, largely by a man they knew. The data comes from Australia’s Femicide Watch, a site run by journalist and researcher Sherele Moody. The legacy press equates those figures to roughly one woman every four days….

Thousands of people marched in Melbourne on the last weekend in April, at the ‘No more: national rally against violence’. Photo: Andrea Baker

It’s me, hi!: The visibility of women in music

March 2024

Baker, A.  & Davies, R. (2024, March 26 ). “It’s me, hi, The visibility of women in music“, Monash Lens. 

In the wake of the major award season wrapping up, 2024 is becoming the year for women in music. By women, we mean cis-women, trans-women, and intersex women. At the Academy Awards in the US, 22-year-old Billie Eilish became the youngest person to win two Oscars for best original song. This year the award was for the mega-hit What Was I Made For?, from the Barbie film, co-written with her brother, Finneas O’Connell. The song also won a Grammy and Golden Globe. In 2021, the siblings won an Oscar for No Time to Die, the title track from the James Bond film….

Taylor Swift performing on her “Eras” tour in Inglewood, California. Photo: Paolo Villanueva/Wikimedia Commons

Unifying media approaches to address the violence against women crisis

September 2023

Baker, A.  (2023, September 5). “Unifying media approaches to address the violence against women crisis”, Monash Lens.

Violence against women is a universal problem, yet its media reportage and the academic research in the #MeToo era is centred on the Global North. Two in three women in the Global South experience physical or sexual violence, mostly from an intimate partner, which is a higher ratio than the Global North.

Groping and sexual harassment rife in Melbourne’s live music venues, study finds

July 2023

Adeshola, O. (2023, 5 July). “Groping and sexual harassment rife in Melbourne’s live music venues, study finds”, The Guardian.