Along with The Wood Foundation, the Victorian Women's Benevolent Trust proudly provided funding to help She Listens produce Giving Voice to Menopause—a short documentary that listens deeply to experiences of menopause, and redefines how we talk about it. Here, director Libby Chow talks about the experience of making this crucial film.
1st March, 22 Read more
Catch up on 'Empowering Women', a Zoom panel talk including authors Susie Allanson and Lizzie O’Shea, Hugh de Kretser (CEO, Human Rights Law Centre) and moderator Santilla Chingaipe.
17th September, 21 Read more
Mel Hoffman, author of Full Credit to the Boys, calls on all of us to broaden our definition of what it means to be an 'elite' athlete, and start valuing what happens off the field as much as what happens on it.
13th August, 21 Read more
Caitlin McGrane is the Project Lead—Enhancing Online Safety for Women at Gender Equity Victoria. Here, she tells us about CyberSmart Women, a guide commissioned by the Victorian Women’s Trust and produced by Gender Equity Victoria to inform women of their legal options in response to online harassment.
15th July, 21 Read more
"I’ve been writing about the erasure of men’s violence against women in the media for over a decade now. I’ve written articles, started the FixedIt social media campaign, studied it university and written a book about it. So, I guess by now you could almost call it an obsession."
8th April, 21 Read more
Megan Rosato reflects on 'Love, Power and Control' webinar series, featuring experts from the UK and Australia discussing the implications of criminalising coercive control.
7th April, 21 Read more
Love, Power and Control was a two part webinar series on coercive control, hosted by the Victorian Women’s Trust and moderated by Jess Hill.
24th February, 21 Read more
Love, Power and Control was a two part webinar series on coercive control, hosted by the Victorian Women’s Trust. Read the transcript from part one.
24th February, 21 Read more
Love, Power and Control was a two part webinar series on coercive control, hosted by the Victorian Women’s Trust. Read the transcript from part one.
24th February, 21 Read more
"It is not just about the episodic physical violence, as seen in assault victims. It is more fundamental. It is essentially entrapment of the victim, a condition that is produced by prolonged entwining of physical violence with coercive controlling behaviours.."
4th February, 21 Read more