Newspaper and Magazine Interviews

/ 9 September 2020 | Wired / By Grace Huckins / ‘Covid-19 has left lots of people feeling anxious and depressed. But it’s hard to untangle whether this is a normal response to a difficult situation or actual pathology.’ AFTER A PARTICULARLY devastating transport, Rosemary, an emergency medical technician who works in the Boston area, realized that […]

/ 22 July 2017 | The Sydney Morning Herald / By Cat Rodie /   Seven-year-old Nicholas Demetriou hasn’t got time for gender stereotypes. He chooses clothes that he likes, regardless of whether he finds them in the girls’ section or the boys’. “[Nicholas] often chooses clothing with sequins, cats or glitter. And he loves wearing […]

/ 24 April 2017 | The Age / By Cat Rodie /   When my daughters were younger I made friends with another mum at swimming lessons. Her kids, two boys, were around the same age as mine, so we easily fell into poolside small talk. Week after week we sat chatting about the trivia and […]

/ 21 April 2017 | The Huffington Post / By Ellen Wallwork / ‘It’s worth remembering a child isn’t their gender.’ A quarter of mums in the UK admit to feeling ‘very disappointed’ if their child is the ‘wrong’ sex – ie. not the sex they’d hoped for. A further 3% said this affected their ability to […]

/ 12 September 2014 | The Sydney Morning Herald / By Natasha Boddy /   A Canberra researcher has criticised a “sexist” move by the American Psychiatric Association to classify a severe form of premenstrual syndrome as a psychiatric disorder. Dr Tamara Kayali Browne, a bioethicist from ANU’s Research School of Biology, said premenstrual dysphoric disorder […]

/ 15 June 2013 | The Globe and Mail / By Margaret Wente /   I have a few questions for all you women out there. Be honest. Is your libido a bit less lively than it used to be? Are there times when you’d rather watch reruns of Mad Men than have an intimate encounter […]