Tara Moss's Blog, page 3
October 25, 2015
A Feminist Honour In The Name of Edna Ryan
On Friday I was honoured to be the recipient of an Edna Ryan awardfor making a significant contribution to feminist debate across a number of issues, for speaking out for women and children including those in war zones and in poor and developing societies and inspiring others to challenge the status quo. You can read the full transcript of the presentation by Elizabeth Evatt in the image below. Evattwas the first Chief Judge of the Family Court of Australia, the first female judge of an Austr...
October 10, 2015
The Rise of the Syrian Child Bride
Today is the International Day of the Girl Child, celebrated annually on October 11 to highlight issues concerning the gender inequality facing young girls. Millions of girls around the world are facing challenges to their safety and access to education and health care. Natural and humanitarian disasters also compound this, leading to a dramatic increase in child marriages as families struggle to cope. Rates of child marriage have risen sharply and in some cases doubled in Syrian refugee camp...
October 4, 2015
Visit Me At Victory Lamour
Vintage lovers, my vintage dedicated web digs are now live atvictorylamour.comand all future vintage and retro blog posts will be found there. At Victory Lamour I’ll be focusing on midcentury history, 40s and 50s fashion and film, as well as sustainability and recycling methods, authentic vintage and retro reproduction fashion, vintage caravans (and their repairs), gender and feminism, and the new body-positive pin-up movement. I hope you enjoy it.To subscribe to Victory’s newsletter (it’s fr...
September 4, 2015
On Aylan and the ethics of circulating images of the unconsenting dead
I have been made aware that a Fairfax journalist singled me out in an article yesterday, as an example of a person who is not sharing/continuing to view again and again pictures of a dead 3-year-old human being named Aylan Kurdi. Some readers felt the writer implied I was anexample of someone‘turning away’and‘avoiding the horror’of Syria and the plight of refugees like Aylan (to quote the article), and having read it, I think that interpretation is easy to make. I believe it’s worth noting th...
August 2, 2015
Girls Will Be Boys
On the weekend I had the great pleasure of shooting with the talented photographer Lauren Horwood, makeup artistRachel Montgomery (who also did my cover of The Fictional Woman) and hairstylist Paula Hibbard. In keeping with the traditions of the vintage and retro scene I enjoy, we did some feminine pin up styles on our first Victory Lamourshoottogether. This time I wanted to keep it retro, but to go for something a little different. It’s an idea I’ve been wanting to shoot for some time.
1) A...
July 13, 2015
Cyberbullying – Let’s Teach Online Ethics Early and Often
As a writer,public figure, child rights and human rights advocate, social media user and parent, the issue of cyberbullying and online safety really hits home for me.
I’ve been using online spaces and social media for many years now, and I get a lot out of it. I like hearing from readers and other writers. I enjoy reading about other people’s experiences, and I learn from it. Online technology has allowed me to write directly and interact with readers outside of book signing line-ups or publi...
June 15, 2015
The Syrian Crisis – Children Living In War
UNICEF Australia’s National Ambassador for Child SurvivalTara Moss spoke with Ita Buttrose,Jessica Rowe, Sarah Harris, Joe Hildebrand and Andrew Daddo onStudio Ten about the millions of displaced children of Syria, and her visit to Syrian refugee camps in Bekaa Valley and Northern Lebanon. The Syrian crisis ‘is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world today, and the largest movement of displaced people since World War II.’
- Find out more about Tara’s child survival appeal.
- Read Tara’...
June 12, 2015
One brave girl’s story shines amid shocking scenes of hardship in a sea of Syrian refugees
I am sitting cross-legged on a concrete slab in a home that is not a home.
This is a makeshift shelter of corrugated iron and plastic sheeting, about the size of a parking spot, and it accommodates a displaced Syrian family with three young children. There is no door. Directly outside the open entrance is the dust and weather of the Bekaa Valley in east Lebanon, bringing extreme heat in the summer and sub-zero temperatures in the winter. To enter this home, you walk between makeshift dwelling...
May 20, 2015
Q: What if we valued humanitarian aid as highly as we value human might?
Tonight I was privileged to be given a microphone and a soapbox (as if I need the extra height) to raise an issue and put forward an ‘empowering idea’ as part of the #PositionofStrength event hosted by Twitter and Women’s Agenda. Each of the participants spoke eloquently about important, big picture social issues.
We each had 140 seconds.
Here’s what I had to say:
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I wondered this the other day:
What if we gave as many column inches to random acts of kindness as we do to random acts of viole...
April 11, 2015
How to Heal a Helix
I recently had my ear pierced in what is most commonly known as a ‘Helix’ piercing (to denote the outer ear) and is sometimes also called a ‘Pinna’, or the more anatomically specific ‘Scaphoid Fossa’. This type of piercing goes through the cartilage of the ear, and therefore takes much longer to heal than the ear lobe. Cartilage piercings are notoriously tough to heal on some, while others do well with this type of piercing.
As I am being asked a lot about this piercing and my experiences wit...
