Filmed street harassment and Pick Up Artist culture infects the streets of downtown Ottawa. New study confirms that gamers who harass women online are less skilled relative to their peers; that is…
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Ruby Rose, newest cast member in Orange is the New Black, explains that after many years of wanting to do gender-reassignment surgery, she changed her mind: I started to change the way…
Covering the topic of class struggle as someone who grew up in Vancouver, BC, is a bit of a mind screw. While we have a substantial working-class and working-poor population, the average…
New Zealand passes Harmful Digital Communications Bill, a “cyberbullying” law that specifically targets forms of hate speech like racism, sexism, homophobia, and ableism. High profile transwoman, Caitlyn Jenner, to write a weekly…
Conservative Government appoints a judge who is openly critical of gay marriage to Supreme Court of Canada — the third appointee of his kind in six months. The CBC advises female reporters…
Wednesday night’s episode of The National, entitled “The sex trade, up close,” had all the most grotesque features of a community centre kiddie pool: it was shallow, stagnant, artificially sanitized, and chock full…
What makes a white woman? Oh, you mean other than listening to Bon Iver on vinyl, exhibiting a zombie-style attraction to Whole Foods even when the bank account is in the red,…
Victoria Brownsworth asks why murdered lesbians don’t make the news. Civil Sociology highlights the staggering hiring and retention gap between male and female Wikipedia editors. Cognitive Psychologists and Neuroscientists weigh in on Rachel…
Last fall, due to an impressive display of academic bureaucracy, I found myself (as a mature student) back in an English 100 course despite having passed it before and taken a good…
Northern Ireland makes buying sex a criminal offence as of June 1st. Pro-prostitution campaigners are relentless in the abuse they hurl at Nordic Model advocates, says prostitution survivor Rachel Moran. Former Superintendent…
Buzzfeed was right. This video about a young woman with Down Syndrome losing a ton of weight to pursue her goal of being a model “made me feel all the feelings”… including…
I recently decided to start using my Twitter account. Many of my friends and acquaintances found this puzzling given that a) I don’t otherwise have any masochistic tendencies and b) I’ve always…
Losing an argument with a feminist? We’ve got you covered. It’s all here: “Die in a fire,” misquoting Andrea Dworkin, something-something “phobe,” “pearl-clutcher,” and so-forth. Did we miss anything? Let us know…
It’s Feminist Theory Friday at the Current and I’m your host for the summer, Jess addicted-to-controversy Martin. I had originally planned to cover a provocative piece on identity politics this week but…