Sure, #CancelColbert was widely mocked. It was a particularly ridiculous and misguided attempt at hashtag activism. But people aren’t holding a grudge towards its creator, Suey Park, over a hashtag. At The…
Hundreds of volunteers are working for #SafeNailSalonsNYC today. There’s only one week left to help fund Julie Bindel’s new investigative book: “Abolishing the Sex Work Myth: The Rise of the Prostitution Survivor…
On October 16, 2014, The Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy was presented to Cherry Smiley. Her activism and work for Indigenous women and girls and against the sex…
Bitch magazine interviewed feminist comedian, Janeane Garofalo recently and I found a number of her comments pertinent. Maybe Toxic Twitter will hear them from Garofalo or Bitch instead of from the rest…
In what has become a relentless and fanatical obsession with positioning himself as an ally while simultaneously working in direct opposition to the feminist movement, Noah Berlatsky, writer and author of “Wonder…
This past week, the hashtag #HowToSpotAFeminist has been in full-bloom across the Twitterverse. Originated on The Blaze, a conservative radio show out of Los Angeles, the host aimed to make feminists the…
On Monday, Lisa Wade wrote, for Sociological Images, that Playboy (you know, the multi-million dollar porn empire) has been shopping around for writers who can bring some feminist cred to the magazine’s…
What the fuck are you trying to sell us, America? This month, Allure featured a nude photo of transgender actress, Laverne Cox in the magazine which she herself, as well as a…
Between the ages of about 18 and 26, I remember working in various reception jobs, making practically no money, constantly broke, and people telling me I should go work in a bar.…
I’ve covered the failures of progressive media platform, Ricochet, when it comes to “the woman question,” in the past, but feminist critiques have not dissuaded their male writers from pontificating on violence…
A new documentary looks at the cases of four women — victims of domestic abuse who killed their husbands in an attempt to escape the years of torture inflicted upon them. They…
Madonna has spent her career molding an image of herself as a boundary-pushing, sexuality-embracing, rebel pop star. She’s always tried to stay current, and her most-recent performances, promoting her new album, in…
Andrea Dworkin died 10 years ago today, and her legacy lives on with many of my feminist sisters, despite massive efforts to rip her to shreds while she isn’t here to defend…
In October 2014, independent journalist Jesse Brown with the assistance of the Toronto Star published anonymous allegations that CBC star radio host Jian Ghomeshi had physically and sexually assaulted three women. Within a…