Around 2 a.m. early Sunday morning, Omar Mateen entered Pulse, a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, and opened fire, killing 49 people and injuring over 50 more in the deadliest mass shooting…
It’s finally over. No more speculation, no more Bernie vs. Hillary. After winning the California Primary election, Hillary Clinton has clinched the democratic nomination for the US Presidential election, making her the…
Anti-FGM campaigner Leyla Hussein publicly urged UK news outlet Sky News not to air footage of a young Somalian girl’s genital mutilation, arguing that it was filmed child abuse. Hussein, co-founder of…
20th Century Fox has apologized for their marketing of the upcoming film, X-Men Apocalypse, which plastered an image of a giant man choking a naked, blue Jennifer Lawrence on thousands of billboards,…
Lady*fest, a feminist festival scheduled to take place June 22nd – 25th in Heidelberg, Germany, has declared the clitoris “exclusionary.” The festival, which features workshops, lectures, and art, had initially planned to include topics…
German police are investigating 26 reports of sexual assault that occurred at the Schlossgrabenfest music festival over the weekend in Darmstadt, Germany (near Frankfurt). The incident is being described as a smaller scale…
Protests erupted in several Brazilian cities over the weekend in outrage over the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in Rio De Janeiro. The gang rape was amplified online as photo and…
Sunday night’s Game of Thrones episode, “The Door,” featured an extreme close up of a penis. “It’s a wart,” the young man examining himself says. “Two warts. I’ve got two fucking warts…
The Kardashians — for years they’ve provided North America and beyond with an outlet for our seething hatred of women. The mantra we hear over and over again is that the Kardashians…
Finally, someone is demanding real protection for women and girls from revenge porn laws. Yesterday, the UK Women’s Equality Party launched the “e-Quality” campaign, which aims to address the glaring problems in…
Yesterday, the Indiana appellate court heard oral arguments from Purvi Patel’s lawyers, appealing her conviction on charges of feticide and neglect of a dependent. Patel was arrested in 2013, after she sought…
Another black woman has died in U.S. police custody, due to horrifying police misconduct. On April 26th 2016, Symone Nicole Marshall was in a car accident, forced off the road by an…
“I felt degraded.” Supervisor at Movati Athletic Club tells Ottawa woman her breasts are too large for her to wear a tank top and that she may come back and finish her…
It’s not easy being a feminist in 2016. Your Twitter mentions are blown up regularly with the same arguments over and over again: “You’re whorephobic!” “Stop erasing me!” “Well, I’m happy in…
Male anchor hands sleeveless female meteorologist a cardigan to cover up with, on air; Twitter erupts. “Been getting a lot of emails,” he explains. Because nothing helps a woman’s professional position like…