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Women Need Allies
By Jean Claire Dy First published in Mega Fashion Magazine, 2018. Revised and rewritten from Melbourne. I am writing this from Melbourne, years after I first wrote a version of this piece for Mega Magazine in 2018, in the early days of the #MeToo movement. I no longer want this to be a piece about one country, or about a movement that had its moment years ago and then moved on. What I want to write about now is something larger and still unresolved: what happens to women and
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It is an odd thing, watching a story you once lived in come alive on screen. A story that shaped you, built you. A story you thought you...
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