“It’s ironic” seems to be the go-to defence for misogyny these days. As a female activist for grassroots organization Collective Shout, I hear it all the time. After the global backlash to…
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When I was nine years old, I found nothing more amusing than watching people react in horror to my soft and innocent little leg hairs. Teenage girls who I looked up to…
I hadn’t noticed, but apparently sexual predator, Terry Richardson, has been on hiatus for the past five months. Maybe he thought we’d forget about his long history of sexually harassing and assaulting…
I just can’t take it. Gay marriage becomes the law of the land in the U.S., we all rejoice, and now we have Montana jackass, Nathan Collier, storming the Yellowstone County Courthouse…
I know, I knowwww — no one’s supposed to talk about Rihanna’s new video (TW for graphic violence and pornographic imagery). Reasons we are to sit down and shut up on this one…
The lengths to which sex industry apologists will go to in order to push the idea that buying sex is synonymous with sexual liberation and empowerment never ceases to amaze me. While…
Today is our third birthday and we are thrilled at how far we’ve come since Feminist Current launched on July 1, 2012. In a few days we’ll be launching our redesigned site!…
In Leah McLaren’s Toronto Life story on fallen star, Jian Ghomeshi, she writes, What’s startling about the allegations against Jian is not that a seemingly law-abiding person is accused of doing terrible…
When they find out, people ask me incredulously if I regret not attending my father’s funeral. I had no relationship with my father for all of my adult life. I lived a…
Wednesday night’s episode of The National, entitled “The sex trade, up close,” had all the most grotesque features of a community centre kiddie pool: it was shallow, stagnant, artificially sanitized, and chock full…
What makes a white woman? Oh, you mean other than listening to Bon Iver on vinyl, exhibiting a zombie-style attraction to Whole Foods even when the bank account is in the red,…
I think I can safely assume most of us have, at this point, followed the story of Rachel Dolezal, the former President of the NAACP chapter in Spokane and a white woman…
I don’t watch The Talk but someone on Twitter sent me a link to this segment, which aired earlier today, in which the hosts discuss a Las Vegas strip club that is…
This is an edited transcript of a talk given by journalist, Julie Bindel, on June 6, 2015 at the Quaker Meeting House in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. The event was recorded by UK…