Egg donation is most-often presented as a harmless solution for men and women alike who are not able to have a biological child of their own. An article published at Everyday Feminism…
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Back in December, a student at Dalhousie University came forward with a complaint about comments posted on a Facebook page called Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen. The group was made up of…
On May 11th and 12th, The World Summit: End Sexual Exploitation 2025 was held at The Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference formed working groups of experts and advocates in law…
A new documentary looks at the cases of four women — victims of domestic abuse who killed their husbands in an attempt to escape the years of torture inflicted upon them. They…
The cases of Jian Ghomeshi and, most-recently, the Cindy Gladue murder case, have forced us to interrogate what “consent” really means, particularly with regard to sexual assault. We’ve had to take a…
Karen Ingala Smith began counting Britain’s murdered women, putting their names on her own blog back in 2012. There were 126 women killed through male violence that year, 143 in 2013 and…
On June 21, 2014, women and male allies gathered to honour and celebrate Lee Lakeman and her tireless work to end male violence against women. Lee has been an integral part of…
The Sun, the U.K.’s largest circulation newspaper, has featured topless models on Page Three since 1970. It was widely reported that as of January 19, The Sun would no longer be publishing…
What role can men play in the fight to end violence against women? Whether or not men can or should be involved has always been a controversial debate within the feminist movement.…
Journalist, writer and activist, Kaisa Ekis Ekman, argues that the practice of surrogacy constitutes child trafficking and compares it to prostitution in her book, “Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the…
Has the gay rights movement become more conservative than radical? Julie Bindel, the author of a new book that tracks the changes in the gay community in the last forty years and…
The debate around transgenderism and feminism feels as though it’s getting ever-more heated. Journalist, Michelle Goldberg, wrote about the rift recently for The New Yorker, explaining the crux of the argument as…
Some say we are now witnessing the beginnings of a fourth wave of feminism. While it is arguable whether or not describing feminism in terms of “waves” still makes sense today, there…
In this episode we continue to explore the natural birth movement and the debate around medicalized birth vs so-called “natural birth.” On the last show I spoke with Ness Fraser, a doula…