Articles That Never Made It Out of The Drafts
By Camila De La Cruz (photo credit: The Simpson (Fox Network), photo edited by yours truly (me)) I’ve been part of the Mary Word team for...
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Jul 313 min read
The Science Behind Falling in Love
By Elizabeth Ie Romantic love has collectively enraptured humanity for years on end. It’s a mutual obsession that has paved its path of...
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Jul 315 min read
Man vs. Bear: An Online Thought Experiment's Insight Into Women's Safety
By Avery Benbow On 10 April this year, a 29-second video was released on TikTok by the account Screenshot HQ. It featured eight random...
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May 291 min read
Female Empowerment at Loreto!
By Rosemary O’Brien, Elisa Jeong, Ava Martin
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May 294 min read
What are Laudato Si and Laudate Deum? Justice for the Environment!
By Olivia Klostermann Last week was Laudato Si week, a week initiated by Pope Francis in 2015 that calls Catholics, Christians and all...
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May 293 min read
Most Ridiculous Laws Around The World!
By Elizabeth Ie, Elizabeth Eade, and Brooke Kilmurray Keeping on the theme of justice, here is a compilation of 12 different laws around...
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May 296 min read
Beyond the Hype... is Fast Fashion Really Worth It?
By Ainsley Benbow When I was younger, if I was ever walking around the Macquarie shops with my family, I would see these superior and...
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May 294 min read
Pages Under Scrutiny: A Deep Dive into Book Banning Down Under
By Josephine Egan and Lauren Meaney Book banning has existed throughout our country's entire history, to varying degrees. Many books have...
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May 294 min read
Beyond the Battlefield: Questing for Prolonged Peace
By Katrina Bolger & Isabelle Barnden The Essence of Peace Is peace more than the absence of war? In essence, yes. Peace is an ambiguous...
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May 295 min read
Basic Social Theory on Extremism
By Rose Cunningham (Please note that this article is based on my research and understanding of base socio-political theory, and contains...
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May 292 min read
Loreto Day Cause 2024: Loreto Shiksha Sadan Development Centre, Dharan Nepal
By Anika Banerji and Anishka Kumar With Loreto Day fast approaching (t-minus 2 days), we all must have a clear understanding of the 2024...
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Feb 13 min read
A smile, a word, a question
By Niamh Kelleher Changing attitudes to mental health starts with one small act by one individual. One small gesture can make a huge...
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Feb 13 min read
Reevaluating the NYE Fireworks in Sydney
By Lauren Meaney The most important part of New Year’s celebrations are the fireworks, and living in Sydney, we are home to what are...
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Oct 29, 20234 min read
Halloween Through the Ages
By Olivia Klostermann The origins of Spooky, Scary Skeletons: Contrary to what pop culture might lead you to believe, Halloween was not...
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May 30, 20234 min read
Masking Menstruation: Debunking Period Taboos
By Avery Benbow My personal experience with periods is made up of two separate extremes. On one end of the spectrum, there’s the...
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May 30, 20233 min read
Building War using Lego
By Rose Cunningham My childhood was filled with moments of building Lego with my brother. We would spend hours constructing houses,...
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May 30, 20233 min read
The Corruption of Protest
By Inara Hossain Merriam-Webster defines protest as the act of objecting or a gesture of disapproval, usually an organised public...
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May 30, 20232 min read
On Anti-Protest Laws in Australia
By Betty Wolkenstein In recent years, in response to the increase in activist groups and protest movements, the Australian Government has...
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May 30, 20233 min read
5 Mass Protests That Shaped Feminist History
By Niamh Kelleher Image of 2017 #MeToo protest in California There’s something about the thundering of a thousand footsteps - the sound...
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May 30, 20235 min read
What are stereotypes about women?
By Eleanor Low Ciao ciao, fellow friend! Listen, women are great, right? Yeah, of course! But how can we appreciate women to the full...
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May 30, 20232 min read
Literary protests:
By Olivia Klostermann What are they? Literary protests are an author’s way of rebuking aspects of society through novels, short stories,...
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May 30, 20232 min read
Their Return to Power
By Katrina & Isabelle The Taliban is an Islamist nationalist movement founded in the early 1990s. The group is widely criticised due to...
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May 30, 20235 min read
In Memory of Stonewall: A History
By Avery Benbow and Rose Cunningham In Greenwich Village, New York City, it’s the early hours of Friday, June 28th, 1969. The Mafia-run...
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May 30, 20233 min read
Period Shaming and Poverty: Why is it a serious topic?
By Clara Ding, Sienna Zavaglia and Mona Qin Menstruating is a completely natural subject, yet so many girls and women feel embarrassment...
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Mar 22, 20232 min read
Harmony Day: Everyone Belongs
By Avery Benbow On the 21st of March (which will have already passed by the time this article comes out) Australia will be celebrating...
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Jun 1, 20222 min read
Labor’s in! …What’s next?
Emma Frank As I am writing this, Labor has practically won the election. Well, not technically, but Scomo has stepped down, Anthony...
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Jun 1, 20224 min read
Misconceptions about Diversity
Avery Benbow Diversity means having variety. It can be applied in many situations, however, it is commonly used to refer to involving...
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Jun 1, 20224 min read
Should anyone be allowed to write from the perspective of a different race?
Olivia Daly In 2020, Jeanine Cummins’s American Dirt underwent significant backlash after appearing on Oprah’s book club. Fellow authors...
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Jun 1, 20222 min read
Our Loreto Day Cause for 2022
Genevieve Bolster Understanding ACRATH ACRATH, ‘Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans,’ is a registered charity...
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Jun 1, 20225 min read
Misogynistic Standards placed on superheroes
Inara Hossain “Cinema is a reflection of its own society” Shohreh Aghdashloo It can be said that cinema is just a mirror reflection of...
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Mar 23, 20224 min read
Grace Tame; The Controversial Feminist of this Era
Elina Banerji Behave. Smile for the camera. Good girls don't make their real emotions evident. These are the norms, the tropes, the...
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Nov 30, 20214 min read
Should I still give money to charity?
Emma Frank I know what you’re thinking, what an obvious question. And yes! You should give money to charity if you can. Article done. But...
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Oct 29, 20213 min read
Sustainability on Halloween
Emma Frank I am a huge fan of Halloween, the decorations, the chance to dress up, the month-long build-up of watching campy horror...
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Jun 16, 20214 min read
Racial Bias in the Grammys
By Sally Kearins Since the beginning of the Grammy’s in 1957 only 10 Black artists have won album of the year. This ratio of award...
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Jun 15, 20211 min read
You Deserve To Own The Art You Make.
By Ava Carroll Who hasn’t dreamed of being a major international recording star? All you’ve got to do is write the songs, perform them,...
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May 27, 20217 min read
Venezuela in crisis: a Loreto staff member's experience
By Erin Longney Venezuela is currently experiencing a humanitarian crisis. In recent years, the country has been rocked by severe food...
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May 27, 20211 min read
Mrs Oxley; Justice for the Birds
A quick note from Isobel Chambers and Eleanor Adlam We were shocked and confused - some may say bewildered - when, returning to class...
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May 26, 20212 min read
China's Genocide: Lost in Translation??
By Anna Garnsey Standard dinnertime conversation for the average Australian schoolgirl is not likely to drift towards current affairs on...
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May 26, 20213 min read
Waris Dirie: Survivor of Female Genital Mutilation
By Clare Horan Under all the bright lights, makeup, and fabric, Waris Dirie has a story, a life of escape and courage, one that has led...
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May 26, 20214 min read
The Significance of May 27th
By Olivia Holmes Next year will mark 55 years since Indigenous Australians were included in the census. It’s bittersweet. Yes, it’s great...
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May 26, 20213 min read
My favourite films from BIPOC directors
By Feronia Ding Moonlight (2016) A tender coming-of-age story about a young boy discovering his sexuality, ‘Moonlight’ captures the...
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May 26, 20213 min read
Patriarchy in Evolution
By Elina Banerji and Anika Banerji Here in Australia, the mere idea of gender inequality in society doesn’t seem to exist. Under the...
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May 25, 20215 min read
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: depicting policing in the media
By Emma Frank “Copaganda” is when media is centred around policing, ultimately glamourising or sympathising with the profession. It can...
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Mar 4, 20212 min read
The Great-Grandmother Fighting Riot Police in the Name of Democracy
By Charlotte Hartmann At 74 years old, Nina Baginskaya is not your average great-grandparent. Hailing from Belarus, Eastern Europe,...
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Mar 3, 20211 min read
Emmeline Pankhurst
By Mahek Chandak The HERO proved actions speak louder than words Spearheading the campaign for women to get the vote in Britain, this...
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Mar 3, 20212 min read
Mary McLeod Bethune – Empowerment Through Action
By Saadia Enait Mary McLeod Bethune (July 10, 1875–May 18, 1955) Mary McLeod Bethune was a significant woman of colour who we still...
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Mar 3, 20213 min read
Women and Working From Home
By Rose Cunningham Mum was upstairs working when I had the idea for this article. Downstairs, Dad was making my brother and I some...
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Mar 3, 20212 min read
Claudette Colvin: The 15-Year-Old Overlooked through History
By Amy Saad Claudette Colvin is a woman who has been overlooked by history, most people don’t even know her name. Few people know her...
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Nov 26, 20204 min read
VINNIES HAMPERS; see the joy, be the joy
By Anika and Elina Banerji Christmas time has always been the time for giving, whether that be time, service, gifts or something else....
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Sep 19, 202011 min read
Interview of the Social Justice & Ecology Captains
By Elina Banerji & Charlotte Pelling After a year full of hardships, the topics and themes of Social Justice are very prominent in our...
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