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 # 2, September

Features

Rule breakers
Stilettos and trackie pants? No such thing as a fashion faux pas in fashionanarchy’s book. Gemma Seymour explores the fashion with no rules.

Anti-porn star
Erin Riley profiles the prominent and controversial second-wave feminist, the late Andrea Dworkin.

Celebrity with style
With the current trend of flashing, trashing celebs, the Hiltons and the Lohans, Meaghan Vosz wonders what the hell happened to the once glamorous notion of ‘celebrity’.

Fanatical Female Footballers
With the wave of World Cup football mania nearly subsided,Caterina Polistina examines the rising prominence of women soccer players in Australia.

Barefoot and bowling
Lawn bowling is reinventing itself by marketing to a new generation. Monica Saliba explores the rising phenomena of barefoot bowling.

Travel Special: Women on the road

Living well is the best revenge
A Kenyan village run by women is healthier and more prosperous than the places that men rule, writes Elizabeth Tadic.

Women's Kingdom
In the south of China many traditional cultures survived the Cultural Revolution. Anna Greer reports on the ancient matriarchal culture that has now become a tourist attraction.

The fairies made me do it
Ani Lamont ponders sanity in the face of Iceland.

DIY

How to make a kick-ass tee
Taelor Richards shares the skillz that make the billz…a little more affordable with this easy how-to stencil your own tees.

News from the Wo! front

With love from Beirut
Rewand Nakad shares some of her experiences under siege in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

Word from a broad

Dear Ann Coulter: An open letter
Allie Kilkenny shares an open letter to American Conservative and anti-feminist Ann Coulter.

Word

Book review: Girls Like You
Rayann Bekdache reviews Paul Sheehan’s analysis of the notorious Sydney gang rapes and finds that the important message about sexual violence against women loses its traction when cloaked in ethnic and religious stereotypes.

Finger on the Dirty Pulse
Elise Phillips reviews Ember Swift’s latest release.

Untitled poem by Mandy Beaumont

Pinkbits

A lesson in etymology
Compiled by Margaret Chernela