She Stands is a limited edition collection created in support of Women’s Legal Service Queensland (WLSQ).
This campaign brings together women with lived experience, advocates and leaders — each sharing their story to raise awareness and help connect more women to support.
With 20% of every sale going directly to WLSQ, this collection helps fund free legal advice, social work support and financial counselling for women across Queensland.
Because when a woman reaches out, she deserves to be met with something real.
Simone O’Brien
Survivor · Advocate · Speaker · simoneobrien.com.au · @simonemobrien
In 2012, Simone was beaten with a baseball bat within an inch of her life in her bedroom by a perpetrator who refused to take no for an answer - her young children were in the kitchen as it happened. Her skull is held together with titanium plates and screws. She lost sight in her right eye and her sense of smell. Her children were affected in ways that are still unfolding. And she will be in treatment for the rest of her life.
Before it happened, Simone had no idea what domestic violence looked like. She’d never heard of red flags. She learned the hardest way imaginable - and decided that no one else should have to.
Today, Simone speaks in schools, police services, football clubs, and workplaces across Australia and internationally. Her message is clear: any little red flag is a big red flag. She has run the New York Marathon for women and children affected by DV. She helps communities work together - because, as she says, getting one person out isn’t enough. We all need to work as a team.
She is also someone who runs every day, who lives in activewear, and who will tell you that loving yourself and clearing your mind is the best thing you can do. Never give up. Keep smiling. Stay positive.
She stands. She runs. She speaks.
Simone wears: Form Base Adjustable Sports Bra in Violet and Core Pocket Base No Chafe Bike Short in Violet
Sarah Kopp
Survivor · Founder, Step In For Kids · stepinforkids.org · @stepinforkids
When Sarah was a teenager, her PE teacher groomed her. It began the way grooming always does - gradually, carefully, with trust built so deliberately that the adults around her didn’t see it. Couldn’t see it. Not because they didn’t care, but because nobody had given them the knowledge or language to recognise what was happening.
It took Sarah many years to understand what had been done to her. She went to court. He was found guilty. And then, with the court-granted anonymity that was hers to keep, she made a different choice - she gave it up. She chose to speak publicly because she knew that silence had never kept a child safe.
Sarah is the founder of Step In For Kids, a Queensland-based not-for-profit whose mission is simple and urgent: knowledge is protection. Her programs give young people the tools to recognise unsafe situations early, and give the adults around them the language and confidence to step in. Because grooming looks like friendship, mentoring, and care - and it’s missed precisely because it’s designed to be. Sarah is making sure that changes. Her advocacy has been featured on ABC’s Australian Story, in The Australian, and on Mamamia’s No Filter Podcast.
Her message to anyone who recognises their own story in hers is this: you are not alone. Talk to someone - a friend, a counsellor, the police, a legal service. The moment she shared her story, she found others who had walked the same path. That community exists. You can find your way to it.
And to the rest of us: when something doesn’t feel right, act on it. When we stay silent, we protect the perpetrator - not the child.
She stands. For every child who needs someone to step in.
Simone wears: Shelf Bra Base Tank in Violet and Core Pocket Base No Chafe Legging in Violet
Christina Sy
Survivor · Advocate @jamandrisebc · Founder joinsportsjam.org
Christina Sy is the mother of two beautiful children, Benjamin and Ariel. She lost them in 2017. If you look closely at the shoes she wears in these campaign images, you’ll find their names, Jam & Rie, written there, along with Jam’s artwork - carried with her, as they always are.
For almost 15 years, Christina lived under coercive control. At the time, there were no laws that named it. No specific guidance. No framework to reach for. She navigated it largely alone - and like so many women in that situation, she didn’t fully understand what she was living inside until she was looking back at it.
The coroner’s findings of the incident that took her children’s lives are devastating. Christina privately carried that truth, and everything it means, every single day since. She chose to honour her kids’ memories through Sports Jam and focused on self-care.
She is here because she made a promise to her kids that she will make them proud. When the worst had happened, she told herself that if she got to 50, she would start sharing her story to help other women. She kept that promise. She chose to stand behind Women’s Legal Service Queensland because she believes that timely legal support turns awareness into action and words into protection. She actively supports fundraising initiatives to help more women benefit from WLSQ’s free legal services.
She also wants you to know this: coercive control does not discriminate. It can affect any ethnicity, age, background, or generation. Yet, there is hope. The fact that she is here - in this campaign, in this community - is proof that survival is possible. And that every step toward helping someone, every kind word, every dollar, every conversation that keeps awareness alive, goes further than we know.
She stands. And she wants you to stand with her and her children, too.
Christina wears: Perform Lightweight Training T-Shirt in Violet and Core Pocket Base No Chafe Legging in Violet
Nadia Bromley
CEO, Women’s Legal Service Queensland · wlsq.org.au
Nadia Bromley has spent her career working toward a world where every woman can access the help, freedom, and dignity she deserves.
As CEO of Women’s Legal Service Queensland, she leads an organisation that has stood for women for 42 years, providing free legal advice, social work support, and financial counselling to women leaving violence across Queensland. To date, WLSQ has helped more than 160,000 women find a pathway to safety.
Nadia joined WLSQ in 2022, bringing with her qualifications in law and business, admission as a solicitor since 2005, and a career spanning corporate, profit-for-purpose, and community sectors. What has remained constant throughout is her commitment to access to justice and women’s rights - and her belief that sustainable, practical legal support is one of the most powerful tools we have.
Her vision is clear: safer futures for women and children in Queensland. And until the day WLSQ is no longer needed, she will keep working to ensure that no woman has to face violence alone.
As one of Queensland’s most prominent advocates for women’s safety, Nadia stands in this campaign - not just as a leader of an organisation, but as a voice for the 160,000 women WLSQ has served, and every woman who still needs to make that call.
She stands. And she will stand with you if you need help. Call 1800 WLS WLS, or visit wlsq.org.au.
Nadia wears: Zip Through Base Jacket in Violet and Long Sleeve Base Top in Violet
Marisa Vecchio AM
WLSQ Ambassador · Owner, Hanworth House · @hanworthhouse
Marisa Vecchio AM always says that Women’s Legal Service Queensland is the organisation she wishes her grandmother had known about. Her grandmother was a victim of domestic violence - not once, but twice - in an era when it didn’t really have a name. She was just “married to the wrong men.” Marisa has never forgotten that. And for more than a decade, she has channelled that personal truth into extraordinary action.
Appointed as WLSQ’s inaugural Ambassador in 2014, Marisa is one of the organisation’s most committed and impactful champions. A former national CEO, business leader, and company director of nearly 20 years, she won the 2004 Queensland Telstra Business Woman of the Year. In 2017, she was awarded an Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for her corporate and philanthropic work and named Queensland Community Foundation’s Philanthropist of the Year. QUT awarded her a Doctor of the University in 2019.
Marisa’s signature event, Labels on the Lawn - held at her beautiful Hanworth House, a residence with over 150 years of history supporting women - has grown from a designer rummage sale into one of Queensland’s most beloved philanthropic occasions. She has danced as a Dancing CEO. Twice. She says there will never be a third time. Over the years, her support for WLSQ has raised more than $2 million.
But perhaps what says the most about Marisa is a quieter story. A cleaner who worked for her. A partner who waited in the car for hours, collecting her wages the moment she walked out the door. Marisa noticed. She asked. She listened. She made the introduction to WLSQ. Today, that woman runs her own successful cleaning business and is standing on her own.
That is what standing with women looks like in practice.
She stands — as an advocate, a philanthropist, and a woman who knows that real change is built one act of courage at a time.
Marisa wears: Quarter Zip Base Top in Violet and Core Pocket Base No Chafe Legging - Violet
A Collection That Gives Back
The She Stands Collection launches 17 April 2026 at 9am, exclusively at
👉https://www.activetruth.com.au/collections/she-stands
💜 20% of every purchase goes directly to Women’s Legal Service Queensland
To learn more or support:
• Women’s Legal Service Queensland: https://wlsq.org.au
• Dancing CEOs: https://www.dancingceos.com.au
If you or someone you know needs support, call 1800 WLS WLS.