‘Beneath The Glass Ceiling’ calls for Australian music’s Metoo movement

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A brand new Instagram web page titled Beneath The Glass Ceiling is doing its bit for the Australian music trade’s seemingly non-existent #Metoo movement.

The account is internet hosting actual life accounts of sexual harassment and assault within the Australian music trade, and appears to have insider information of recognized abusers.

One ‘question post’ asks its followers: “Present of fingers when you’ve heard quite a few accounts of a break-out Australian artist who has damage a number of ladies, but is being protected by the crew round them?”

One commenter on the picture stated: “Greater than protected – behaviours excused or ignored, and promoted to develop into profitable.”

One other publish depicts an anecdote from a lady who labored as an assistant to a male govt director within the native music trade.

“One of many first moments I bear in mind pondering ‘I don’t have a spot on this trade’ was at an ARIA after get together,” the publish reads. “I walked over to my boss (an govt director in his late fifties) to inform him I used to be leaving and noticed him sitting along with his former PA (a woman in her mid-twenties) on his lap.

“He had his fingers wrapped round her and was rubbing her ass – all of the whereas, a bunch of individuals stood round as if nothing was improper,” she continued. “He was married, being his assistant I spoke to his spouse commonly. From that second on I felt bodily unwell going into work.”

One other publish particulars a time when one lady’s supervisor regarded down her high on the eve of her efficiency overview and stated: “In case your efficiency was based mostly in your physique you’d get high marks.”

One other particulars the time the CEO of a significant movie firm licked a file label worker’s arm to see “if my tattoo tasted good”.

“My boss, a senior file label govt stood proper beside me because it occurred,” she stated. “He laughed the whole time.“

The latest publish, revealed at the moment, alludes to trade whispers about Australian music corporations utilizing non-disclosure agreements to quiet victims of sexual assault.

“Present of fingers if you already know of somebody who has been requested to signal a non-disclosure settlement by a significant music firm with the intention to stay silent about their sexual assault?,” reads the publish.

The creators of the Beneath The Glass Ceiling web page, which made its first publish in August, have remained nameless. Nonetheless The Trade Observer understands that most of the private accounts of harassment, assault and abuse of power have been echoed by many followers who’ve reached out through the account’s direct message inbox.

The web page launched one month after Ben Preece, the Managing Director at Brisbane-based artist administration and advertising agency Mucho-Bravado got here ahead following allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct.

It additionally follows over 100 allegations of sexual abuse by Melbourne photographer Jack Stafford. Stafford released his own statement through Medium in July addressing and admitting to most of the allegations made towards him.