We are not the Us we...
Let’s be honest – pop culture hasn’t always been kind to women. Or...
Unless you have been living under a pop culture rock...
As screen awards season continues, fans and those in the industry...
Films and novels are great at glamorising sadness, yet in reality it’s anything but glamorous. I remember one of the lowest moments in my life was...
First published on Tuesday the 14th of August, 2018, this piece comes in at number 10 in the top 30 most read Villainesse stories of 2018....
First published on Thursday the 13th of September, 2018, this piece comes in at number 30 in the top 30 most read Villainesse stories of 2018....
Ah, Christmas. That time of year when the streets are full of drunken work parties, 90s holiday films are filling your screens and keto diets are...
Donna Brookbanks is a comedian, actor, improviser and writer based in Auckland. Just recently she...
I’ll be honest, I have never read Clementine Ford’s first best seller, Fight Like A Girl (2016). In fact, my...
Y’all must be aware of...
Dear Mike Hosking,
Hey buddy what’s up? I’m a long time sufferer listener, first time caller.
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It’s a difficult time to be a woman. Populism and right wing (I refuse to use the term ‘alt-right’) politics are gaining traction; vulnerable...
It feels like we are constantly losing as women right now. World events...
The way Australia handles...
Friday nights are usually a time to drink away your weekly woes with colleagues or friends at some hideously overpriced monstrosity at the Viaduct...
It is suffrage year fellow suffragists...
Admit it, we’ve all had that one (or many) moment(s) in our lives when...
I remember once having a heated argument with a friend about why any woman would voluntarily wear a hijab. As a non-religious Iranian, I come from...
First published on Wednesday the 22nd of February, 2017, this piece comes in at number 22 in the top 30 most read Villainesse stories of 2017....
Someone needs to write a feminist dictionary. Something that would answer questions like, ‘What the fuck is intersectionality?’ It would be an...
Christmas, New Year’s and the summer holidays are here, and for many of us that means overloading on TV...
"Tinder is how people meet. It's like real life, but better."
For those of you like me, who have been around the ol’ Tinder wheel of...
It’s hard to believe that the very first Bridget Jones film came out in 2001. From the outset, poor Bridget was harassed for not progressing the...
