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Are we as comfortable with same sex parents as we think we are?
Uncovering the hidden prejudices against Mumbians.
Fat Isn’t The Source Of Our Unhappiness
The insanity of diets and how cutting out a food group or drinking diet shakes won’t improve our lives.
‘The Only Cure For Cellulite Is Good Lighting.’
Has Dita Von Teese just confirmed what we all know deep down?
Handling Cries For Help On Facebook
How seriously should you take distress signals online?
What If You Don’t Love Your Children?
Not only does 57 year-old British woman Isabella Dutton regret her decision to have children, she decided to tell the world about it in the pages of the Daily Mail in excruciating detail.
Why Airlines Charging By Weight Is A Bad Idea
Making bigger people pay more for air travel takes our cultures’ obsessive moralising around weight to new altitudes.
Stop Calling Dads Incompetent
The ‘bumbling dad’ character creates an excuse for the men who want to shirk childcare and domestic responsibilities.
Fat Shaming Kim Kardashian
Forget the post-baby body, now gossip magazines have graduated to shaming pregnant women.
Who Treats Women More Realistically?
Back off girlfriends, there’s a new bastion of women’s empowerment in town. Behold the UK edition of Esquire magazine.
What’s The Most Confronting Question Your Child Will Ever Ask?
Sometimes it takes a (very curious) child to show you’re not as sexually liberated as you think.
The Problem With Gender Reveal Parties
Inside the bizarre new trend of letting your baker reveal your baby’s sex.
Is This The Best Body Image Message Ever?
Forget screaming trainers and ritual humiliation, this Speedo-clad man is the new body image icon.
Now We’re Fat-Shaming Children
It’s bad enough that we fat shame adults for our entertainment, whilst pretending to be ‘concerned’, but setting our fat-phobic sights on children is indefensible.
Teen girls being pressured into dishing out blow jobs
For Girlfriend Magazine. My first ‘sealed section’.
Let’s Calm Down About Hilary Mantel
Let’s take a step back and see what Mantel really said about Kate Middleton, shall we?
Regressive Marital Advice
‘Bitter’ man-hating feminists have turned women into unmarriageable ‘sluts’. Really.
Trolling #TellAFeministThankYou
The exquisite irony in attacking a hashtag that urges women to speak up.
It’s February. How’s your weightloss New Years Resolution going?
Every year, weight loss tops the list of New Year’s Resolution goals. Let’s think about that for a moment — especially the ‘every year’ bit.
Pop Star Shaves Her Head To Apologise For Sleeping With Her Boyfriend
A 20 year old Japanese pop star has shaved her head and offered a filmed apology after breaking her management firm’s rules by spending a night with her boyfriend.
Why Was This Book Banned?
What the history of our banned books tells us about our prejudice.
The problem with raising “good girls”
Should parents stop encouraging their daughters to play nice?
The 9 Ugliest Feminists in America
A men’s rights blog has handed out the accolades. Unsurprisingly, I have a problem with that.
No act of sexism is ‘too boring’ to ignore
Why feminists should sweat the small stuff.
‘Pretend To Be A Man’
The surprising advice that book publishers give to aspiring female writers.
Has Barbie Got Better In 2013?
With Michelle Obama singing her praises is it time to re-think Barbie as a good role model?
‘I Watched My Own Plastic Surgery’
What I didn’t realise all those years ago, was that I didn’t walk into that surgery because I had a problem with my legs. The problem was with my self-esteem.
How Chocolate Makes You Smarter
It’s our national duty to eat more chocolate.
Accepting Rejection From A Parent at Christmas
When you realise your dad is never going to be the father you want.
Chicks Do The Ironing While Blokes Knock Back A Beer
Carlton United Breweries wins the Social Marketing Moronathon.
Secret Santa for the office misogynist
Buying the perfect Secret Santa gift for the Office Misogynist takes thought and consideration. With all the good will of the Season, we present the following gift ideas.
Behold: powerful, public parenting in action
“Girls have the RIGHT to own themselves and should not be a slave to even their mother’s deepest insecurities.” Jada Pinkett Smith.
The video every woman needs to watch
If monkeys refuse to accept unequal pay, so should we.
The baby number 2 question
I have a simple rule about the social etiquette of kid questions. Don’t ask. Ever.
How to spot a liar online
What are the most common lies we tell in our online dating profiles?
The ‘50 Shades’ divorce
Of all the grounds for divorce, ‘My husband won’t tie me up with cable ties and spank me when I’m bad,’ wins the prize for novelty.
‘Princess’ is not a career
US Supreme Court Justice shares awesome career advice on Sesame Street.
I Hated Breast Feeding
Nothing in my life has caused me to cry as much as breastfeeding. I probably produced more tears in that time than I did breast milk.
Paying to be demoralised
The motivational genius and expert in human psychology and physiology replied, ‘Let me ask you, “Are you happy with your legs the way they are?”’.
Ever felt like you’re about to be ‘found out’?
It took almost a decade of climbing the corporate ladder before it dawned on me that to some degree or another, everyone is an impostor.
Computers “for women”
No, what real women want from computers is scrapbooking. I shit you not.
What your body reveals about you
If you want to ace your next job interview, client pitch, performance appraisal or make an impact at the school council meeting then here’s a tip: spend an extra few minutes in the ladies room.
Why do men refuse to do fertility tests?
Aiming issues aside, how hard is it to ejaculate into a jar?
Are we teaching sexism to preschoolers?
As a mother who hopes for a more equal world for her daughter, perhaps concealing the real world of entrenched gender stereotypes would make for a nice change.
Why no one shops from Aussie stores online
Dear MYER and DJs: that 1998 called and it wants its website back.
Too fat for morning TV?
Making fat a moral failing and vilifying people for being fat isn’t just cruel. It’s also unjust and discriminatory.
Raising boys that feminists hate
If you long for a world where men are men, Jesus is a Hummer-driving redneck, large animals know how to stand still in front of a gun sight, and women just shut the f*#k up, then this is the parenting manual for you.
Do you know what a box gap is?
Up until this point I had been blissfully sailing through life unaware of yet another marker of beauty and worth that I have failed at.
MILS (Mothers I’d like to Slap)
You’ve heard of the MILF — Mother I’d Like to F@#%? Well, the MILS is kind of the same, except they’re the Mothers I’d Like to Slap.
Naomi Wolf gagged by Apple
iTunes bookstore has censored the title of Naomi Wolf’s recent book Vagina: A New Biography. The word appears in the online bookstore as V****a.
My speech at the Melbourne Writers Festival
About body image, the politics of fat and my next book Kill The Fat Girl
Interview with Girlfriend Magazine
The Business of Beauty
Where have all the hairy men gone?
I’m sure that when our great feminist foremothers fought for equality, a mutual obligation to wax our genitals was not what they had it mind.
Why this gender-bending ad isn’t a great leap forward
We already knew that most female bodies do not meet the cultural definition of beauty – and by implication, value and success – but according to Toyota the definition of beauty is now so far out of reach for women that you need to be a teenage boy to attain it.
Do we still think internet dating is for losers?
I’m astounded by how many people who are looking for love are prepared to look everywhere except internet dating websites.
The breastfeeding video that was turned in to porn
The real fault is at the hands of the people who turned the sacred act of breastfeeding into smut, and the wankers who think that it’s appropriate to jerk off to a video of a mother and her child.
Speaking at Melbourne Writers Festival
1 September 2012
Shaming the overweight
If we weren’t so busy tut-tutting at all the fatties perhaps somebody would have realised that the public shaming strategy isn’t working.
Time women clocked on to fertility myths before it gets too late
My article in the Sydney Morning Herald
My book OMG! That’s Not My Husband on YouTube
One of my parody picture books for adults
Body image saviours
Some women are fat, some are thin. Who cares? Get over it! Move on!
I’m not being a bitch but…
Why we put down other women to make ourselves feel good.
How much does the tabloid press hate women?
My first article published in Daily Life.
The Portuguese translation of 30-SOMETHING AND THE CLOCK IS TICKING is out now.
I love the cover of O Relógio Biológico aos 30 e Tal. But the baby on the front is making my clucky!
All diet customers are losing is their dignity, possums
It doesn’t work if you’re a celebrity. And it doesn’t work if you’re just an average Kath, Kim or Sharon.
A diet that works? Fat chance
Not only are weight-loss programs a waste of time, they can play havoc with our normal metabolisms.
My picture books are coming soon!
OMG! THAT’S NOT MY HUSBAND and OMG! THAT’S NOT MY CHILD will be published in October
An article I wrote for The Age about motherhood and domestic work
Why are men not pulling their domestic weight? Even more concerning, why do women put up with it?
Portuguese cover for 30-Something and Over It
They stand together but they are all alone.
Do mothers ‘over-share’ about their children on Facebook?
Here is an interview I did for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Mother’s Day: Ignore anything she said before giving birth
My thoughts about Mother’s Day
OMG! Kate Middleton reads my book to Prince William!
Kate uses 30-Something and The Clock is Ticking to raise the baby subject with Will.
Book launch speech for THIRTY SOMETHING AND THE CLOCK IS TICKING
Just in case you want to relive the highs and the lows of my book launch…and that joke I made.
Families have dined out on the public long enough
Here is an article I wrote for The Punch, but before you get outraged, it’s a joke.
It takes a village idiot
My next blog post for Random House.
Just let it happen (not)
Another blog post for Random House’s blog.
Conception Etiquette
I’m blogging for Random House this week. Here is my first post.
Watch the trailer for 30-Something and the Clock is Ticking
A date for your diary
Melbourne book launch
My thoughts on reframing motherhood
Raising funds and awareness for The Museum of Motherhood
Buy now! 30-Something and the Clock is Ticking
When Kasey Edwards discovers she’ll be infertile within a year, she is forced to bring the baby issue to the forefront of her mind. In 30-Something and the Clock Is Ticking, she explores what motherhood would mean to her identity, her career, her body, her relationships and her mental health.
30-Something and Over It
Have you ever woken up and realised that you didn’t want to go to work? I don’t mean you had a big night and wanted to sleep in, or you’ve got a boring day of meetings ahead of you that you can’t be bothered sitting through. I’m talking about being over it — completely and utterly over it.
Watch the trailer for 30-Something and Over It
30-Something and Over It
What readers are saying about 30-Something and Over It
Suddenly I don’t feel like such an ungrateful 30-something anymore. I’d like to give a copy to everyone I know and say “see, that’s what I mean”. Your genuine, unforced wit made it such a great read. I feel richer for having read it, and more confident to go out and get what I want. [...]
Writing and the path to publishing
People often ask how I wrote my books and how I got published. This is what I tell them.
Draft cover designs for 30-Something and the Clock is Ticking
Draft covers for my next book
Kasey on Today Tonight
Kasey in Red magazine
Kasey in Red magazine talking about changing careers in your thirties
Thoughts on writing and publishing
When I first started writing I had a painfully romantic idea about the writing process. I fully expected that a bolt of creativity would strike me at around 2am. Always 2am. The early morning atmosphere has a certain romance that a bright sunny afternoon simply can’t match. It would compel me to leap out of [...]
Radio interview with Kasey on Canberra Radio 2cc (MP3)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
30–Something reviewed in Heat (PDF)
30-Something and Over It reviewed in the 28 March-3 April 2009 edition of HEAT magazine
OMG! That’s Not My…
If you have kids, you’ll be familiar with the ‘That’s Not My’ series from Usborne. Now try the adult parody versions: OMG! That’s Not My Husband and OMG! That’s Not My Child.
