Ellen DeGeneres takes Caitlyn Jenner to task for lack of support on gay marriage. Sexualized photos of Russian child model, Kristina Pimenova, trigger public outrage toward the fashion industry. Young mother in…
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Internal government report by Status of Women Canada reports that Canadian women are falling behind the developed world in women’s equality. Women are being “upsold” into buying labiaplasty procedures by cosmetic clinics,…
U.S. Women lobby the FDA to ban birth control device, Essure, which they claim is causing debilitating harm to and even killing women. UK government puts onus on the porn industry to…
Comedian Damon Wayans stuns radio host with defense of Bill Cosby: “‘Bitches’ were ‘un-rape-able.’” Emma Thompson says she’s a “card-carrying radical feminist.” Buy a copy of Blood and Visions, a new anthology…
Margaret Cho says she was sexually molested by a family friend from age five to 12, then raped continuously through her teenage years. “Companion app” lets friends virtually walk each other home…
Pornhub’s vice president, Corey Price: “We’re always looking at different ways we can give back and we thought helping someone to go to college would be a great way.” Azealia Banks unfortunately…
Child sex exploitation investigation leads to the arrests of eight Alberta men. Police say they seized 85 computers which included 100,000 pornographic images. Victoria (Australia) government denies Jill Meagher’s rapist and murderer…
Can we really afford to keep laughing at a man as rich and as powerful as Donald Trump when he says such repulsive and dangerous things about women and other minorities? A…
Join the No Amnesty Global Day of Online Action on October 23 — feminists, allies, activists, and survivors around the world will share news articles, testimonies, and subversive art raising awareness of…
Sign the petition to investigate Maggie’s Toronto for using government funds in the promotion of child sex trafficking. This blogger doesn’t care if men are intimidated by her. Here’s why. Facebook blocks…
St. Paul’s rape case resurrects the debate on whether the language in American sexual assault law should change. The New York Times reports that “A majority of states still erect a far…
Virginia TV reporter, Alison Parker, was shot dead during a live broadcast by a man who formerly worked at the same news station. Also killed was camera man Adam Ward. There are…
Seven people have been charged with promoting prostitution on Rentboy, an escorting website geared towards gay men. Kelly T. Currie, acting United States attorney for New York’s Eastern District, tells The New…
New “female Viagra” exposes women to dangerous side effects and doesn’t even work. Nine year old girl, Jamyla Bolden, fatally shot in Ferguson while studying at home. “Girls called Jack and…
According to Federal authorities, Subway’s Jared Fogle paid for statutory rape of underage girls and admitted to possessing and sharing child porn images. Fogle faces 12 and a half years in prison…