SLUTWALK MELBOURNE // RESPECT
SEX WORK SAVED YOUR MARRIAGE // DO MY NIPPLES OFFEND U // PROUD SLUT
"The whole message is that, even if you're a slut, even if you've been labelled a slut, you don't deserve the things that have been done to you."
– Mev, Slutwalk organiser
YES, ALL MEN // STRONGER TOGETHER // NEVER ASKING FOR IT
“I am sick of having to decide whether it’s better to wear makeup when doing the shopping and have men calling me ‘luv’ and hitting on me from their cars, or not wear makeup and risk loud transphobic comments. I’m sick of transgender women only being considered valid when we look ‘feminine’ enough, and being considered fair game for ridicule, discrimination and violence when we’re not.”
– Bebe Lynx, speaker
NAMES AND FACES OF YOUNG WOMEN KILLED BY THE IRANIAN REGIME
ABORT THE PATRIARCHY! // EVERYONE SAY SLUT! // SAY THEIR NAMES
“That man had stolen my voice… It took me eight years for me to finally face the fact that what happened to me was sexual assault.”
– Kira Djnalie, speaker
KILL YOUR RAPIST // PUSSY POWER // ONLY I CAN GIVE CONSENT
“I’m not a statistic. I should feel lucky. Perhaps I’m here as a sum of my so-called risk management. The sum of the extra scarf shoved in my bag in case the weather changes, or a guy stares at my tits. The sum of offers from my friends to walk me to my car. The fact that I’m privileged enough to have a car, with petrol in it, a safe home, and a door that locks. A sum of all my near misses, privileges and fortunes. When I think about it, why aren’t I over the moon and grateful? Because we know it can turn at any moment. Because once I am violated, I am no longer a person, but a sum of all my mistakes.”
– Vi La, speaker
WHEN THE CHURCH BLAMES WOMEN IT SHAMES // CHILDREN ARE SILENCED
I <3 SLUTS // PROUD WALKING SLUT
“The abuse we are talking about directly affects Indigenous people, and it is a direct result of colonisation. So we need a treaty, and we need to be signal boosting the Indigenous people of this country.”
– Anna Piper Scott, Slutwalk host
FEMINIST // NOBODY DESERVES TO BE RAPED
woman, life, freedom // Nazanin on the current situation in Iran
"Right now, we, in the streets of Tehran, in the streets of Melbourne, in the streets of all of the cities around the world, are shouting ‘neither hijab, neither getting attacked, death to this dictatorship!’.”
–Nazanin, speaker
CLOTHES CAN'T TALK // JUST BECAUSE I LOOK SEXY DOESN'T MEAN I WANT SEX… IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU