The Oscars happened last night. Men won most awards, except for the Mad Max sweep that saw female winners in Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, Best Makeup, and Best Costume Design.…
Tag: What’s Current
Up to the minute feminist news
18-year-old Andrew Picard is “spared jail” despite having shared over 2000 images of child abuse — of children as young as two years old. It’s time to take another page from Sweden’s…
Lands’ End apologizes for featuring an interview with Gloria Steinem and ends its donations to the Fund for Women’s Equality. (Turns out they don’t care about feminism because their primary objective is…
Stars rally in support of Kesha after court ruling denying her escape from working with her rapist, Dr. Luke. Lena Dunham writes a great essay on how Kesha’s ruling highlights the way…
After public outrage, Amazon pulls book penned by serial killer of women, Robert Pickton. Taylor Swift donates $250,000 to support Kesha after ruling denies her an injunction that would provide an escape…
Judge refuses to issue injunction that would allow Kesha to work with anyone other than her rapist, Dr. Luke. Even when selling items on Ebay, men earn more money than women. A…
A review of “Girlfriend Experience” prostitution site Sugar Babies shows that a staggering number of SFU and UBC students pursue this arrangement in order to pay for the otherwise impossibly high prices of…
Conference held in Paris, France for the abolition of the exploitative surrogacy industry: “The core question in surrogacy is: Is it a technical critique or a political one? Should surrogacy be forbidden…
SCOTUS analyst says that Loretta Lynch is the most likely candidate to replace Scalia. She would be the first black woman ever nominated to the Supreme Court. Study finds that male undergrads…
Longtime gay rights activist, Peter Tatchell, is the latest victim of a “McCarthyite smear campaign” by young UK progressives, who labelled him “racist” and “transphobic” because he signed a letter opposing no-platforming…
Actress and model, Emily Ratajkowski, dares to express a political opinion, publicly supporting Bernie Sander. Men are appalled that a sex object could posses enough humanity to have complex thoughts. Kentucky legislator…
Tavia Grant explains the story between the Globe and Mail’s “Trafficked” series, begging the question: Who is putting on the pressure for the Globe and Mail to say the investigation was a…
The Crown and Jian Ghomeshi’s defence presented their closing arguments today. Ghomeshi did not testify, nor did his defence present any evidence. The defence strategy, instead, focused solely on discrediting his accusers.…
Researchers say that “born this way” ideology could make people more homophobic, not less. A study from the Pew Research Center finds that the idea that people are “born gay” could be…
Samantha Bee mocks a U.S. state senator’s sexist dress code proposal on her hilarious debut of Full Frontal. Court documents reveal more domestic violence from an NFL player: Quarterback Johnny Manziel kidnapped…