After BBC presenter Jenni Murray published a piece in the Sunday Times questioning whether a man could “become a woman” by taking hormones and perhaps getting surgery, not only was a petition…
Mariela Castro, Raúl Castro’s daughter, calls for the Nordic model: “We have to act. We can’t simply say that we are against sexual exploitation as a form of sexual work.” The U.S.…
During an interview in The Edit, Jane Fonda reveals she was raped and sexually abused as a child. “To show you the extent to which a patriarchy takes a toll on females;…
And the Oscar goes to… A fucking creep! (A sad creep, tho.) In a form of silent protest, Brie Larson doesn’t clap. On the bright side, Viola Davis is the first black…
The Trump administration has withdrawn the Obama administration’s policy on the use of public school bathrooms by trans-identified kids. Elder women are being abused in American nursing homes. Justice Robin Camp, whose…
Today, pornography is inescapable. It shapes our self-image, our relationships, our sexualities — even our body hair removal practices. In academia, many media scholars have taken a non-critical approach to porn and…
Here is a longer cut where Milo Yiannopoulos says that he "is advocating" for legal sex between 13 year olds! & older men. #CPAC2017 pic.twitter.com/1fiuv7TSKs — The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) February 19,…
Ashley Judd opens up about her own experiences being sexually exploited as a girl, in order to speak out against the paid rape of children. Brendan Orr is jailed for two years…
A California rep has proposed a bill that would require a student’s rape charges to appear on their college transcript. Zochem Inc. has been ordered to pay $60,000 in “moral damages” after…
When the Working Class Movement Library — a small, volunteer-run library in Salford, England that holds records and stories of working class people’s lives and activism — announced they would be hosting…
Nicholas Kristof: “Husbands are incomparably more deadly in America than jihadist terrorists.” Hot tips for V-Day: Grow your fingernails until the sharp edges are so long they can curve all the way…
During the second wave, there was a bonafide feminist bookstore movement. Women’s spaces, presses, writing, and events were seen as integral to feminism. This meant that women’s bookstores were valued, not only…
A new law in Arkansas — Arkansas Act 45 — prohibits bans most second trimester abortions and allows the husband of a woman seeking an abortion to sue the doctor, blocking her…
Two men, one of whom now identifies as Jacquelyn Laronde, have been charged with sexually abusing a child. Laronde is co-chair of Kingston Pride, the gender and diversity co-ordinator at the Canadian…
The election of Donald Trump inspired the largest demonstration in U.S. history. Three million people in more than 500 American cities took to the streets, and we saw sister marches across the…