In a small office, in the western Sydney suburb of Wentworthville, three staff members are busy at their computers, working into the night.
But the magazine’s editor-in-chief Ambika Subramanian says alongside the “fun stuff” will be hard and often little-discussed social issues. They will include domestic violence and financial abuse, through to issues specific to South Asian communities including dowry violence and killings. Samar Kohli is the magazine’s founder and plans to fund the project until advertising and sponsorship kick in.
“It saddens me to see that in the 21st century, we are sticking to certain ideologies that don’t make sense at all.”Womanity’s first hard-copy edition is several months away, but already the concept is attracting community welfare leaders. “They don’t know about post-natal depression - instead they think they’ve gone insane - and some don’t know that health agencies have interpreters.”The Indian Support Centre in western Sydney helps people impacted by sexual assault, domestic or family violence and abuse.
“By raising this issue, we could lobby the Immigration Department to make it easier for grandparents to come for a short time on Parent Visitor Visas.”“There’s been a hell of a lot of public support for it.
What about one for the European women of Australia since first contact enduring the same ills from European men? Now wasn't it a European homeless woman who was battered to death by a European man in Melbourne for starters?
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