Brenda Brooks thought she was “post-lesbian” — turns out the fight is very much back on.
Femininity
High heels are harmful and painful, but the pressures of femininity and marketing ensure women continue to suffer for “beauty.”
Many saw the focus on violence against women at this year’s Miss Peru pageant as subversive and powerful, but the message was entirely contradictory.
Alok Vaid-Menon demonstrates exactly why feminists should not center men’s voices in our conversations about sexual harassment.
As Prince is mourned by millions across the world, his life and artistry are rightly being embraced as unconventional and as boundary-pushing in many ways, including in terms of gender. But, whereas…
It gets lonesome being a feminist in America today, if you do not bow nightly before a shrine to Beyoncé, if you can’t accept pornography or the prostitution of women as harmless…
In a speech at the 2015 Girls Write Now awards ceremony, acclaimed Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said, “I think it’s important that you tell your story truthfully and I think that’s…
This past week, the hashtag #HowToSpotAFeminist has been in full-bloom across the Twitterverse. Originated on The Blaze, a conservative radio show out of Los Angeles, the host aimed to make feminists the…
From Walk a Mile in Her Shoes to #manupandmakeup, to music video director, David Wilson’s recent appearance at the Grammy awards in black pumps, there seems to be some confusion about what…
It’s official. Hair is back. We’ve experienced a long drought since the heyday of hair in the 70s. Feminism was almost fashionable and so was women’s body hair. Having unshaven armpits was…
I don’t intentionally go to many drag shows. Not as a political or even personal decision — in fact, it’s not really something I’ve thought about all that much. I suppose that…
Perhaps you’ve come across the #nomakeupselfie in your internet travels as of late — the campaign, which Cancer Research UK latched onto after seeing women posting photos of themselves on social media…
Paris Lees has been busily trying to erase decades of feminist work over at Vice as of late, first promoting prostitution as something sexy, empowered women do, and now encouraging men to…
The problem with romance is that it seems to give me writer’s block. I can’t explain why it happens, but it always does. It isn’t because I feel overly preoccupied with the…