A new law in Arkansas — Arkansas Act 45 — prohibits bans most second trimester abortions and allows the husband of a woman seeking an abortion to sue the doctor, blocking her…
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Two men, one of whom now identifies as Jacquelyn Laronde, have been charged with sexually abusing a child. Laronde is co-chair of Kingston Pride, the gender and diversity co-ordinator at the Canadian…
Canada’s hard-won and long-awaited national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls has caved to demands to include testimonies of men and boys. Thanks to recent pressure from some Indigenous…
Trump nominates Neil Gorsuch, who anti-abortion campaigners believe will be key to overturning Roe v. Wade, to fill Supreme Court vacancy. Anti FGM-campaigner Leyla Hussein writes an open letter to her adolescent…
Kesha’s lawyers have filed a new countersuit to cut ties from her alleged rapist and abusive manager, Dr Luke: “You can get a divorce from an abusive spouse. You can dissolve a…
Republican lawmaker Tony Tinderholt says criminalizing abortion will make women “more personally responsible” for sex. I wonder if he might consider imprisoning men whose wayward penises result in unwanted pregnancies? Julie Bindel:…
A US-based study found that girls as young as six years old believe that “brilliance” and “giftedness” are male traits. Christia Spears Brown, professor of psychology at Kentucky University and author of…
Mary Tyler Moore played a single, 30-year-old, working woman on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, something that was seen as radical for 1970s American television. The show’s female-focused format became a staple.…
Women in Ireland plan to strike on March 8th in protest of the country’s criminalization of abortion. After protests from French feminist groups, director Roman Polanski will no longer be presiding over…
Survivors of the sex trade have signed on to an open letter urging Women’s March organizers to reconsider their support of “sex work”: “The Women’s March and its supporters are being hoodwinked…
Around half a million people (mostly women) came to the Women’s March on Washington in D.C. Three times more people than Trump’s Inauguration. At the rally, speakers included Gloria Steinem, Angela Davis,…
#BREAKING: Trump team is planning to ELIMINATE the DOJ's 25 Violence Against Women grant programs (listed below). https://t.co/DPNHiW38SZ pic.twitter.com/O2LtGPUAn5 — Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) January 19, 2017 Donald Trump’s transition team has pulled…
Neuroscientist Cordelia Fine deals another blow to the concept of brain sex in her new book, Testosterone Rex. Petula Bvorak of the Washington Post makes the case against pinkifying the Women’s March…
Mother of four leaves abusive husband and builds home from scratch by watching YouTube tutorials. Makeshift justice the only recourse for ill-protected women at South Sudan camp: “It’s appalling the way the…
RCMP employees’ sexual harassment suit certified “class-action” by Judge Ann Marie McDonald of the Federal Supreme Court. Need one more reason to feel insecure about your physical appearance? Perhaps your nipples are…