I recently read Toni Morrison’s Beloved. The novel is heartbreaking from start to finish, and very much worth reading — this acknowledgement of slavery’s traumatic legacy is vital if we are to…
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Shock and outrage over the mass sexual assault in Cologne, Germany on New Year’s Eve has captivated the world through an outpouring of media coverage and debate. German women held protests, furious…
The latest reports from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgeries indicate that the number of labiaplasty surgeries performed between 2011 and 2012 increased 64 per cent, and went up again 44…
We are a lucky species, in that we are able to hold more than one thought in our heads at once. We can enjoy films that may not be in line with…
I found myself spending the few days over the New Year period in a community deep in the UK countryside. Apart from sharing domestic chores, much of the time could be spent…
You’ve had your chance, bepenised ones. And you’ve blown it. What you’ve proven, time and time again, is that you cannot be trusted to behave yourselves after dark. In Germany, about 1000…
The Ottawa Police Service’s recently announced decision to charge the man who allegedly raped, strangled, punched, and spat upon Mélodie Morin on the University of Ottawa campus last fall may reassure the…
We all know that, in a patriarchy, the world revolves around men’s penises in a general sense, but here are 15 ways we can see this reality manifest itself, more specifically: 1)…
It gets lonesome being a feminist in America today, if you do not bow nightly before a shrine to Beyoncé, if you can’t accept pornography or the prostitution of women as harmless…
Narrowing this list down to 20 posts was torture, as we published so many important articles over the past year, and continue to reach more and more readers every month. But the…
Susan and Meghan tag-teamed our 2015 movie picks this year in order to give you a well-rounded selection, but be sure to let us know what we missed (there were at least…
Since it’s the season of New Year’s resolutions, I thought I’d share a few coping strategies I used in 2015 to stay nearly sane as a woman who’s genuinely interested in women’s…
“They both went over the railing,” CTV reported on December 20th, describing the deaths of Robert Giblin, 43, and Precious Charbonneau, 33, days before Christmas. No they didn’t. Giblin first stabbed his…
It’s not easy to find explicitly feminist TV shows, but this year has definitely offered us some series that come close. As such, here are my favorites from 2015 — they aren’t…
Star Wars has a female lead! The main male character is her sidekick! The villain is an angsty young dude who throws raging mantrums because she’s better than him! The lightsaber fights…