Alex Eggerking
@alexeggerking
Writing, playing, boxing, drumming on Gadigal Country / MA student in Creative Writing at UTS / Media entrepreneurship @towknightcenter / Lawyer in another life
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http://www.alexeggerking.com 10-06-2016 17:08:11
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An ode to phone calls with friends. My friend Jessica Gross is an amazing writer and I'm so glad the NY Times has finally acknowledged our beautiful long distance relationship!!! ❤️🙃
Woo! Second season of acclaimed Brain on Nature podcast is in the works. Support high quality independent narrative storytelling (and those who make it) and help get this season made: brainonnature.com/support
Please read this devastating and important piece by Amy McQuire about the death in custody of Mark Mason Snr. And then subscribe to her newsletter, Presence. And then support her work and reporting financially if you can (via Substack)
I hope Dyson Heydon watches every moment of Alex Eggerking’s extraordinary interview with Laura Tingle & that every one of her courageous, vulnerable words haunt him - and anyone who has ever abused their power to exploit women - forever. He did not get away with it. 😭 #abc730
Alex Eggerking Josh Bornstein Laura Tingle An absolutely brilliant piece of advocacy by you Alex live to camera. In 40 years as a lawyer I have never seen a braver or more directly relevant statement. Congratulations Alex Eggerking Josh Bornstein
This is the most powerful 90 seconds of TV I have seen in a long time. Alex Eggerking addresses former High Court judge Dyson Heydon, who sexually harassed her when she was a young lawyer. abc730 Laura Tingle
And thank YOU, Dhanya Mani, for your courage in speaking up and incredible advocacy to make workplaces safer for women and POC. I'm so terribly sorry he harassed you, too, and for the way you were let down by those who might have had the power to do something about it
. Marie Claire has launched a campaign, 'The case for safe'. The campaign is based on #MeToo advocacy re: safety in politics & at work. The authors (Kristine Ziwica & Sarah Grant) & 3 of 4 women featured are white. All are able-bodied & cis-gender. MINORITIES DESERVE BETTER.
New report from Anne Summers, 'The Choice: Violence or Poverty', launches today. It contains blockbuster, never-released data on the prevalence/impact of domestic abuse among single mothers. To start: 60% of single mothers w kids u18 have experienced intimate partner violence 1/