Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges, is scheduled to give the keynote speech at an upcoming conference about resource extraction at Simon Fraser University (SFU). The State of Extraction, set to take place…
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Twitter follows Reddit’s lead in creating a new rule against posting intimate photos without the subject’s consent. UK Education Secretary urges “curriculum for life” to deal with teen sexting and revenge porn.…
Women doctors are advised to “just give a blow job” instead of destroying their careers by reporting sexual harassment. Thirty nine pictures of women at work across the world. Crowd-funding campaign launches…
Erasure: The new normal for lesbians. Eleven-year-old boy wears a 50 Shades of Grey costume to school. Wearing a suit and carrying cable ties, the other children immediately recognized him as Christian…
Gay asylum seekers need our help. UK judge claims Nigerian lesbian is heterosexual, but had merely “indulged in same-sex activity.” From India and Turkey to Oxford, we live in a perpetual state…
Saudi historian says Western women drive because rape is “no big deal” to them. One sister’s journey leaving liberal feminism. Sign the petition to save the Women’s Studies MA at Ruskin College.…
“Sex Work”: A term used to protect the dignity of men. Christian Purity Culture encourages girls to treat the patriarch of their family as their practice husband. The current culture of online…
Do women really make less than men? Women make less than men. In Canada. In the United States. In every country in the world. Belgium (yes, chocolate lovers, Belgium) has the smallest…
In 2014, Canada made history by creating prostitution legislation that recognizes prostituted people are not criminals, but that those who exploit them are. Previous laws treated prostitution as a public nuisance instead…
Congratulations are in order for our UK sisters! The BBC reports that “Friday’s edition of the Sun was the last that would carry images of topless women.” The No More Page 3…
I’ve never actually seen “The Vagina Monologues” and, frankly, it doesn’t strike me as all that interesting or radical (but what do I know — again, haven’t seen or read it) so…
Remember George Zimmerman? Of shooting 17 year old Trayvon Martin to death and then getting off fame? Well, CNN has reported that he was arrested Friday night on a charge of domestic…
“Opposing sexism, not sex: how does a feminist mother explain a lap-dancing club?” – Great essay by Glosswitch. [New Statesman] “How to Have Maintenance Sex.” Because servicing men’s genitals (giving them “release”)…
In October, members of the Stormont assembly voted in favour of a bill that would criminalize buying sex in Northern Ireland. On Wednesday, December 10th, Lord Morrow’s Human Trafficking and Exploitation Bill…