Honi Soit

10/10/2025

"I hated this woman in front of me, this nameless and ageless goddess of torment, placed here to remind me that I will never be able to play God like God does, because of the open wound between my legs."

Sophie Bagster decays.

Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” T.S Eliot, The Waste Land The first night I spent in the mausoleum, I cried. Not from the hatred of being dead, essentially, or of being surrounded by the dead, but from the sheer brilliance of its archi...

10/10/2025

"She’s beautiful, voiceless, and oh-so-aesthetic. Femicide is pop culture’s favourite ghost story, and we keep buying tickets."

Saskia Morgan haunts the narrative.

Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email I see dead girls… everywhere.  In our film,  television, and games, popular culture is imbued with ‘fridged’ women reduced to plot devices that exist solely to motivate male characters. She’s beautiful, she’s tragic, she’s voiceless, she....

10/10/2025

"Casual s*xism desperately clings onto every surface in every venue, from the bar to the stage."

Felicity Errington is not a groupie.

Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email Music has always been an omnipresent figure in my life. It has been my indie godmother, guiding my articles and tastes. A third parent. My earliest memories are of my Dad blasting bands like Ween, Spacemen 3, PJ Harvey, and even Dickless on road trips....

10/10/2025

"I take each of my mother’s views and pick them apart in my head. I still love her, but she does not carry the unquestioned authority that she once did."

Anonymous climbs their family tree.

Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email I grew up in a matriarchy. An all-white, all-conservative matriarchy. I have one mother, one grandmother, and no male role models. I don’t have a father, my one grandfather is long dead, and none of my uncles were around enough to have any effect on ...

10/10/2025

"Many of them don’t call themselves ecofeminists, they’re simply just women that care for what truly makes Earth what she is."

Kiah Nanavati echoes the calls of Mother Earth,

https://honisoit.com/2025/10/she-tends-she-fights-women-and-the-growing-roots-of-environmental-action-in-australia/

10/10/2025

"When s*xual misconduct happens on campus, students expect protection and transparency. Instead, USyd’s response raises questions about whether reputation is being placed above safety."

Emily Betancort channels her inner female rage.

https://honisoit.com/2025/10/when-rage-becomes-routine-investigating-usyds-response-to-s*xual-misconduct-on-campus/

10/10/2025

"Can Evoca’s inclusive and holistic model change women’s healthcare for good?"

Audrey Hawkins is at your cervix.

Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email The last time I went to the Emergency Room, I writhed in pain against creaking plastic chairs for 14 hours, terrified my IUD had perforated. Tear-stained and nauseous at the thought of surgery, I waited until the small hours of the morning to be told i...

10/10/2025

"The Muslim Algerian woman cloaked in her white veil does not allow herself to be captured by his colonial gaze, which frustrates him deeply."

Imane Lattab unveils history.

https://honisoit.com/2025/10/devoilez-vouz-algerian-resistance-behind-the-veil/

10/10/2025

"We must reject the idea that women are “confounding variables” — that their biology skews data sets and ruins trials."

Jasmine Virk discusses s*x discrimination in medical research.

Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email It would be redundant to inform female readers on the medical discrimination we face. I’ve heard countless horror stories, from gastrointestinal diseases dismissed as eating disorders, to hysterectomies denied because a woman is of childbearing age. ...

10/10/2025

"When patriarchal norms are woven into our culture, feminising nature will implicitly induce climate apathy and passivity from men."

Cate Chapman de-romanticises.

https://honisoit.com/2025/10/mother-virgin-seductress-the-ecological-perils-of-feminising-nature/

10/10/2025

"We need to actively recognise GBV as a form of ongoing terrorism, not only to acknowledge the severity of misogynistic violence, but also to see a significant shift in the way our government treats GBV and women."

Ellie Robertson analyses gender-based violence in Australia.

https://honisoit.com/2025/10/confronting-patriarchal-terrorism-in-australia/

10/10/2025

"A feminist, decolonial politics of memory begins here: by rejecting neutrality, by naming those excluded so that others could dance."

Ananya Thirumalai dedicates this dance to devadasis.

https://honisoit.com/2025/10/a-dance-of-dispossession/