Nevertheless Stories
The ability to share and own your birth story is such an incredible and important rite of passage for women. Birth is one of the single most epic experiences a woman can live, and it's often a story that goes untold.
Dr Daniella Teixeira is an accidental pin-up girl for Glossy Black-Cockatoos in Australia. She had a modest presence on social media and decided to raise $5000 to help Glossies and those working with them.
Seventeen-year-old student and accomplished artist Katura Halleday has been involved in philanthropic ventures since the tender age of 11. Her passion lies in the education of girls in developing countries.
With that goal in mind, Katura has developed her own charitable organisation and event, 8x8 to Educate, an annual art auction that has raised thousands of dollars for the schooling and tertiary education of 15 girls in Mozambique and Tanzania, as well as a literacy program and menstrual product solutions.
Comedian, writer, lover, activist, mother, disrupter and... politician? Mandy Nolan has really run the gamut, or at least she’s about to, if she’s got anything to say about it. And she usually does.
Ever heard of a racial trauma psychotherapist? Until I sat down with Dr Kathomi Gatwiri, neither had I. And yet, in a country that likes to pride itself on its multiculturalism while simultaneously playing host to a fairly robust and vocal population of racists, we should probably have one working in every suburb of Australia.
