USyd Women's Collective

Sexual assault on campus limits access to education

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Anna Hush is a former Women鈥檚 Officer at Sydney University. She has worked with End Rape on Campus Australia, and with journalist and advocate Nina Funnell she co-authored The Red Zone Report, which was released last month. This is an abridged version of a talk she gave at Sydney University at the Women鈥檚 Legal Service Feminist Legal Perspectives Seminar on March 7.

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Students demand an end to misogyny at Sydney University

Students gathered outside the Wesley College gate at the University of Sydney on May 16, with their mouths taped shut, demanding the names of the editors of the 2014 Wesley Journal, which included a page called the 鈥淩ackweb鈥. The 鈥淩ackweb鈥 featured in the journal as a spider diagram of intercollegiate campus 鈥渉ookups鈥, complete with the full names of students who had reportedly had sex with other students, and referred to women named in it as 鈥淏iggest Pornstar鈥 or 鈥淏est Ass鈥.