What's Current: Italian lawmakers are considering creating 'red light districts'

Germaine Greer calls out Elton John and his partner David Furnish for listing Furnish as their children’s “mother.”

Almost there! Julie Bindel’s new investigative journalism project on the sex trade, “The Oldest Oppression,” is 93 per cent funded with three days to go.

Italy is on the verge of opening a legal red light district to allow the Italian government to promote and profit from trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation, while criminalizing women who sell sex outside of these areas. Join Equality Now to stop this from happening.

Gloria Steinem and female activists cross border into North Korea in a moving display of female political solidarity.

Here’s a guide to female body language, according to men.

Image: Medium/Kendra Wells
Image: Medium/Kendra Wells

Video: Waitress fights back after customer sexually assaults her by smacking him upside the head with a menu.

Female kick boxer renders her sex attacker unconscious by putting his head in a scissor grip with her legs.

Susan Cox is a feminist writer and erstwhile academic in Philosophy. Follow her @Blasfemmey. Got tips? Email us.

Susan Cox

Susan Cox is a feminist writer and academic living in the United States. She teaches in Philosophy.