Trans-identified male, Fallon Aubee (previously Jean-Paul Aubee), has applied for a transfer to a women’s penitentiary based on a new policy prompted by off-the-cuff comments made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier…
Following a four-year undercover human trafficking investigation, York Regional Police have arrested 104 men for attempting to sexually exploit children.
Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to officially enter the Boston Marathon, crossed the finish line today, wearing the same bib number an official tried to rip off of her in 1967. A…
Women have only just begun their fight for inclusion in public life; now we are expected to give up our washrooms?
Despite being a century into the women’s movement, it can, at times, feel as though progress has stalled. Indeed, old stereotypes about the roles men and women play in the home persist,…
Jian Ghomeshi is trying to sneak back onto the media landscape with a new podcast: “In a 140-character environment, nuance is often a casualty. The Ideation Project is a creative adventure with…
Despite having been accused of sexual assault by 12 women in the past year, U.S. President Donald Trump has declared April to be National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. During this…
Despite feminists’ best efforts, many people today believe that inequality between the sexes is natural, not cultural. They will often point to the behavior, clothing, or play of girls and boys to…
What makes a woman invulnerable to male violence? Apparently, if she is “an intelligent woman with a network of friends” and has a university degree. Despite having beaten his wife with a…
United Airlines banned two girls from boarding their flight because they were wearing leggings. Poor women and girls are being forced to sell their hair so that wealthy western women can have…
Liberal government commits more than $100 million over five years to create a national strategy to prevent “gender-based violence,” in light of Robyn Doolittle’s “Unfounded” report. A man whose victim killed herself…
Shana Grice told police that her ex-boyfriend, Michael Lane was stalking her and had assaulted her just months before she was found dead. Instead of helping the 19-year-old, the police charged Grice…
We all know women who fear male violence are just hysterical, right? I mean, what have men ever done to hurt us? Oh. Right… When women express concerns about their spaces, whether…
I just finished reading Jessa Crispin’s much-talked about new book and wonder if I’m the only one who did. With several reviews characterizing Why I Am Not a Feminist as “both feminist…
After being heavily attacked online over her recent comments about transwomen, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie clarifies: https://www.facebook.com/chimamandaadichie/photos/a.469824145943.278768.40389960943/10154893542340944/?type=3&theater Was that viral video featuring a BBC pundit getting interrupted by his kids so funny…