Emily Wolfinger

Sessional academic @SSAPChat. PhD in sociology. Committed to improving women's lives through research & activism.

[Emily Wolfinger @Ewolfi10]

Indeed. In my PhD research, sole mothers spoke about economic marginalisation, including challenges with accessing childcare and juggling work, study and family commitments, as contributing significantly toward their situation of poverty. @CSMCVIC

[CSMC @CSMCVIC]

Juggling children & study is a challenge many single mothers take on to create a better future for their family. Research will help inform universities about ways they can better support parents.
@Terese_NCSMC @GoodAdvocacy @CFECFW @Asher_Wolf @KayCookPhD @DebKilroy @Ewolfi10

[Emily Wolfinger @Ewolfi10]

I just uploaded my PhD thesis, 'Welfare debate in the comments section: Perceptions of sole mother poverty and welfare in an age of neoliberalism' to @academia! https://t.co/z3Cmz2KfbZ

[Emily Wolfinger @Ewolfi10]

Stand with Doctors providing critical medical care to people held in offshore detention, sign the petition to Parliament to #SaveMedevac https://t.co/7mdDNt39R3

[Emily Wolfinger @Ewolfi10]

Agree! Always makes me cringe...

[Professor Michael Flood @MichaelGLFlood]

Why We Need To Stop Calling Women "Girls": 1. It Makes Women Into Children 2. It Has Creepy Sexual Undertones 3. It Perpetuates Our Unhealthy Obsession With Youth In Women 4. There Is No Male Equivalent 5. It Prevents Us From Treating Each Other As Equals https://t.co/EzjbEDTZ9d

[Emily Wolfinger @Ewolfi10]

@richbarsny @MichaelGLFlood

[Emily Wolfinger @Ewolfi10]

@DoonZeGoon @JoDodds6 @scott_burson @Kon__K Another thing: men do not have to live in fear of violent attacks by women. Do u even understand the psychological impact of this for women, of being confronted every day with stories of friends, daughters, sisters, fellow women being assaulted??

[Emily Wolfinger @Ewolfi10]

@DoonZeGoon @JoDodds6 @scott_burson @Kon__K But it's ok to belittle, downgrade & silence women who make up vast majority of sexual harassment/assault victims? Sexual harassment/assault of men by women is not a social problem- it's an anomaly.

[Emily Wolfinger @Ewolfi10]

Shameful

[Kon Karapanagiotidis @Kon__K]

Your Friday reminder there are still 134 children imprisoned behind caged fences on #Nauru by the #Turnbull Government. Half were born in this prison and have never seen freedom. Most have been prisoners for 5 years now. This is what inspired #Trump's current immigration policy

[Michel Edenborough @MEdenborough]

Help fund Feisty Women of Oz https://t.co/why3mXT3sc

[Professor Michael Flood @MichaelGLFlood]

Neoliberal 'feminism': Ivanka Trump's book "talks about female empowerment but defines success in terms that serve the interests of men & the rich; it values individual success over collective justice; it legitimises the outcomes of structural oppression.” https://t.co/1dhzvCU2ps

[Big Beautiful Billablog @Billablog]

If you're a man upset at being lumped in with rapists, attackers and general arseholes just because of your gender, maybe take it up with the men who give us a bad name instead of women who have to be on guard 24/7 because of them.

[Women's Policy Au @policyforwomen]

For the 1st time, less than 1/2 of Australians hold a permanent, full-time job w/ paid leave. Insecure work is rising & wages are falling. Women are disproportionately negatively impacted. @TheAusInstitute HT @foxylabuck https://t.co/gpXAd8ouKk

[Women's Policy Au @policyforwomen]

New analysis - Contracted employment services: Obligations placed on single parents fail to help many @MichelleBradyUQ @UQ_News #welfarereform #auspol https://t.co/T4aGu0i65O

[Emily Wolfinger @Ewolfi10]

Is motherhood the unfinished work of feminism? | Amy Westervelt https://t.co/ytr62PubbB

[Laura Vidal @lauraemilyvidal]

You can be part of demanding Justice For Noura ! #MaritalRape #DeathSentence #Sudan - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/gSSEKq56wO via @Change

[Laura Vidal @lauraemilyvidal]

16, forced into marriage, raped & in self defence stabs abuser. This is what Sudan has ruled to be pre-meditated murder. Women of the world unite & stand for #JusticeForNoura She deserves protection not execution. The Int’l community must intervene and human rights must be upheld

[Emily Wolfinger @Ewolfi10]

This is the extreme end of the kind of thinking that dominates politics. We need to challenge this 'lifters and leaners' narrative which is so detrimental to society. Human beings are by our very nature interdependent and this ought to be recognised and built into policy

[Sally McManus @sallymcmanus]

Yet he cuts penalty rates and does not support fair minimum wage increases. https://t.co/RF3EwTxWgO via @smh

[Emily Wolfinger @Ewolfi10]

Important to be ever vigilant of the dominant political rationality of our time and how it influences our thinking https://t.co/dXSVcKQ2Pi

[Professor Michael Flood @MichaelGLFlood]

How neoliberalism colonised feminism – and what you can do about it https://t.co/MyE0MvaWl6 via @ConversationUK