Itchy: Seven Years of Big, Scary Marriage Equality.

November 15, 2017 marked the final hurdle in the months-long battle of Australia’s queer community having their lives put into the hands of the voting public to do with them what they so desired.
And as we look back, seven years to the day since Australia voted YES, the inevitable seven year itch is upon us.
A scratch below the surface of the darker side of a plebiscite, and the ugliness it exposed –
So was the YES worth the wounds..?

Soft

We were taught that to be soft, was to be weak, it was to be a pushover, a coward. Soft was the opposite of everything we were told we should aspire to be as men. Hard and Tough were the goals, and anything less than this – anything softer than this – was simply unacceptable.
But with the biggest killer of men being themselves – is ‘hardening up’ really doing any of us men any good?

Oh, Man.

Domestic abuse is far different to any other danger that we face in our world. This isn’t like a shark attack, where we can tell people to stay out of the water; this is everywhere, every day, everyone. The threat has seeped into all parts of life, and as men, we have the ability, and the moral obligation, to help.