What’s Current: Enough already. Pinkwashing needs to stop

Please put down that pink can of soup and put your bra back on. The pinkwashing of October (or “pinktober”) breast cancer awareness month has gone too far.

Massachusetts Police Force will use pink handcuffs for “breast cancer awareness.”

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Oregon shooter, Christopher Harper Mercer, days before the shooting complained on 4chan about no women having sex with him.

Full sex industry decriminalization puts women’s rights last.

New York Historical Society to open women’s history center.

“I bet he likes you.” Post from Ohio parent pushing back against “flirting is hurting” goes viral.

Susan Cox

Susan Cox is a feminist writer and academic living in the United States. She teaches in Philosophy.