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Since our launch in 2010, we have achieved many wins: billboards objectifying women pulled down, sexualised childrens clothing withdrawn from sale, sexually violent games banned, Andrew Tate’s pimping courses removed from Spotify, and an age verification trial underway to help protect kids from exposure to porn. Last year saw a record 34 wins.
We are continuing to campaign against corporates that exploit women and girls thanks to the financial generosity of our supporters.
We welcome your tax-deductible donations. Your support will help us achieve even more this year.
Please note that we can also accept one off PayPal donations if you use this email address [email protected] to send the payment to via your PayPal account.
If you wish to donate via EFT direct bank deposit please use the following bank account:
Collective Shout Public Fund
BSB: 032505
Account: 382709
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Help us take on some of the biggest companies in the world
We’ve got some big plans. And we need your help to execute them.
Like:
- Demanding payment gateways stop facilitating the sale of rape, incest and child abuse games
- Banning AI nudifying and undressing programs which are being weaponised against Australian female teachers and schoolgirls as we speak
- Achieving a global ban on child sex abuse dolls
- Securing tighter regulation of Big Tech and social media platforms which enable predators and groomers + facilitate child sexual abuse and sextortion
Thanks for your support!
The Collective Shout Team: Lyn, Renee, Caitlin, Melinda and Coralie
Collective Shout offers experienced and engaging communicators with expertise in addressing the harms of sexualisation, objectification, pornography and porn culture. We offer presentations for schools, conferences, corporate engagements, youth and community events.
TOPICS COVERED INCLUDE
⬥Objectification/Sexualisation
⬥Body image, mental health, wellbeing + resilience
⬥Predators, bots, sextortion, AI/deepfakes
⬥Harmful social media influencers (Andrew Tate etc)
⬥Addictions/Building healthy habits
⬥Sexual harassment, sexual assault
⬥Coercive control/red flags + green flags/Respectful relationships
⬥Responding to Harmful Sexual Behaviours/Sexual Harrasment of Teachers [SHoT] report
⬥Clarifying values/establishing boundaries
⬥Personal and cultural change
We offer one-off presentations, half day, full day and multi-day presentations. Our preference in schools is at least one full day to reach the whole school community.
Melinda Tankard Reist, Movement Director
Melinda is an author, speaker, media commentator, and advocate for young people. She is best known for her work addressing sexualisation, objectification, harms of pornography, sexual exploitation, trafficking and violence against women. Melinda is author/editor of seven books (no. 8 on boundary-setting for girls forthcoming 2025) covering sexualisation of young people, the harms of the porn/sex industry and violence against women and girls.
Melinda has appeared on ABC’s Q&A and The Gruen Sessions and many other TV and radio programs. She is co-founder and movement director of Collective Shout and coedited (with child safeguarding expert and lawyer Maha Melhem) the Sexual Harassment of Teachers [ShoT] report published by Collective Shout in partnership with Maggie Dent.
Melinda is an Ambassador for World Vision Australia, Compassion Australia, Hagar NZ and the youth mentoring body the Raise Foundation. She is also Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Culture and Ethics, Notre Dame University, Sydney and named in the Who’s Who of Australian Women and the World Who’s Who of Women. In 2024 she was the recipient of the ‘Global Impact Award’ presented at the Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation [CESE] international summit.
Endorsements
“Thank you for making us feel strong. I never saw such closeness and community in the girls. But you gave us that. I have never felt more seen, as a female, as a student, as a victim...You’ve demonstrated the power that we can have, we just have to claim it by speaking out…” - Leo, 17, Adelaide, SA
“Melinda Tankard Reist was the key speaker to address all our Year 7-10 students at our inaugural Wellbeing Day. Her informative, engaging and eye-opening presentation was better than I could have ever expected…Students have been talking about Melinda’s presentation every day since her visit to our school. Highly recommended - 10/10!!” - Julia Picone, Head Teacher Wellbeing, George’s River College, Peakhurst, NSW
“Thank you so much for your talk with us today. It is so important to acknowledge the injustices that riddle society - especially the normalised dehumanisation and sexualisation of women. It has been extremely comforting knowing that people like you are working behind the scenes to help protect women. It was a privilege for us to listen to you today - Ivy, 17, Good Samaritan Catholic College, NSW
“Melinda is probably the world’s best presenter on the damage advertisers and p*rnography do to our children and teens – often when we don’t even know. Her highly visual presentations will knock your socks off. You will be left angry in the very best way and be so much better equipped to talk to, and protect, your kids.” - Steve Biddulph AM, Author Raising Girls and Raising Boys
“Melinda Tankard Reist has a simple message which is powerfully delivered. With her prodigious intellect, sand blasted sense of humour and immaculate research she puts a much-needed spot light on the erosion of childhood, the pornification of our environment and the commodification of young people.” - Dr Michael Carr Gregg, Adolescent psychologist
MAKE AN ENQUIRY
If you would like someone from Collective Shout to get in touch with you about a presentation, click 'request a speaker'. We look forward to hearing from you.
Your Christmas gift today will mean even more reasons to celebrate in 2025
With more resources, more financial investment, bigger dreams can be realised. Like:
- Reining in the global porn industry
- Tightening up advertising regulation so kids don’t have to see pornified portrayals of women in our shopping centres (as they are right now)
- Securing a global ban on AI-enabled undressing and nudifying apps which are being used against Australian schoolgirls
- Achieving a global ban on child sex abuse dolls
Will you help us get the report into the hands of decision makers?
This week we release our 'Sexual Harassment of Teachers’ [SHoT] report, published in partnership with author and parenting educator Maggie Dent.
We are at crisis point.
We have called for a strong, national, uniform response to address the problem.
Your tax-deductible donation today will enable us to
- Get this report into the hands of every State and Federal MP in Australia
- Get this report into the hands of the Secretary and Deputy Secretaries of the Federal Department of Education
- Get this report into the hands of State and Territory Education Departments
- Consult with school leaders to help them address the issue
Empower Girls' Visions for the Future – Today!
With your investment we can:
- Call out Big Tech companies profiting from AI images which exploit women and children
- Call for a global ban on nudifying/undressing apps
- Lobby for stronger penalties in our Online Safety regulations
We need your help to fight porn's new super weapon
Your tax-deductible donation today will enable us to:
- Call out Big Tech companies profiting from AI images which exploit women and children
- Call for a global ban on nudifying/undressing apps
- Lobby for stronger penalties in our On-Line Safety regulations
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Your support means a better world for women and girls
Your gift this International Women’s Day means we can:
- Get rid of Playboy-owned sex store Honey Birdette’s pornified ads all over our shopping centres once and for all
- Bring the porn industry to account for crimes against women and girls
- Publish our new sexual harassment report in partnership with parenting expert Maggie Dent
(And don't forget, all gifts over $2 are tax deductible)
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“He said he’d rape me if I didn’t send nudes…” Mia, 13.
Will you stand up for girls like Mia on Day of the Girl?
Your investment will help us:
- Reach 20 key cross party MPs to demand policy change
- Ramp up our social media campaigns targeting PM Anthony Albanese and Communications Minister Michelle Rowland
- Advance our local and global campaign with like-minded experts and allies
Right now you have the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of young people. Give today and your gift will be doubled by a matched grant.
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