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Julianne Schultz AM, FAHA, Professor of Media and Culture, Griffith University, Griffith University

Friday essay: 'fair game', racial shame and the women who demanded more

Brittany Higgins and Grace Tame at the National Press Club last month. Mick Tsikas/AAP

Sexual politics is difficult terrain for young people to navigate. Desire, threat and insecurity are a powerful combination in the most benign circumstances, even before teenagers were drenched in social media harassment and ubiquitous porn.

Outside the privileged cloister where we tested the limits, my generation of assertive young women were surprised to realise we represented a visceral threat to those men who chose to remain unmoved by the new politics that took the personal seriously.

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