Category Archives: Colour

‘Laborious learning or painful pondering’: Bluestockings and the Uses of History in Australian Higher Education Politics

by Managing Editor Posted on April 10, 2024

In this blog, Anna Temby explores the history and evolution of the Bluestocking philosophy from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. In the early 1980s, the Australian Union of Students (the precursor of the National Union of Students (NUS) established … Continue reading →

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When Spain ‘put on purple glasses’: Restyling the ‘feminist colour’ for an age of austerity

by Managing Editor Posted on December 12, 2023

Micaela Pattison explores the history of the colour purple within feminist protest, particularly as it pertains to the Spanish experience. At nightfall on 8 March 2018, a reported ‘purple tide’ in Spanish politics took physical form. Millions marched through the … Continue reading →

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The ‘Teal’ Community Independents: Women changing the face of Australian politics

by Managing Editor Posted on July 31, 2023

Angelika Heurich explores the ideological influence of attributing the colour teal to define community independents as a collective political identity rather than true independents in modern Australian politics. Colours have long been used in political campaigns and by social movements to signify political … Continue reading →

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Look At Me: #WearOrange and gun violence activism in the United States

by Managing Editor Posted on June 5, 2023

Megan Doney explores how the colour orange has come to represent the movement against gun violence and how such protests intersect with the feminisation of gun violence activism.  Orange is one of the “most polarizing” colours, writes Katy Kelleher in The … Continue reading →

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Women, protest, and the colour black: South Africa and Israel/Palestine

by Managing Editor Posted on February 21, 2023

In the next instalment of the Colour Series, Rebecca Swartz, Ana Stevenson and Sarah-Jane Walton engage with the representation of the colour black in protest movements to challenge the apartheid state and end gender-based violence. In September 2019, following the … Continue reading →

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