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I remember when I was first struck by the question: If prostitution is against the law in the US, why isn’t porn? A friend of mine was telling me about an undercover…
On August 25, Tory councillor Zoe Kirk-Robinson filed a complaint with police after Labour opponent Guy Harkin, 69, called Kirk-Robinson “he” at a Bolton Council meeting. Harkin, Bolton’s former mayor, says he…
It’s been one year since the final Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. Forty years strong, Michfest was a pillar of lesbian culture, a bastion of women-only space, but more than that — it…
Yesterday the Government of Canada announced the commissioners to head the public inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women. “For over a decade, the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls…
On Tuesday, a draft document outlining the terms of reference for the upcoming national inquiry into Canada’s missing and murdered Indigenous women was leaked by several news outlets. The document, circulated by…
On Thursday, German parliament (Bundestag) unanimously passed new rape legislation, based on the tenet of “no means no.” This is a huge step for Germany, as their current rape law is not…
On June 21, the University of British Columbia’s Vice President of External Relations announced that novelist Steven Galloway is no longer employed as a professor in the Creative Writing Department. After an…
Feminist Current would like to offer a hearty congratulations to ally Cherry Smiley, who has been announced as a 2016 Trudeau Scholar by the The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. The Trudeau scholarship…
In a letter released this morning, B.C. Premier Christy Clark explains that she supported a private member’s bill on sexual assault because she went through things “no person should experience” as a young girl. “As…
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,…
In January 2015, Brock Turner, a swimmer at Stanford University was seen sexually assaulting a woman who was lying on the ground, unconscious. He tried to run away after being seen by…
Maya Dillard Smith has resigned as head of Georgia’s American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) chapter in connection with Obama’s recent directive to schools to let transgender students use the bathroom that corresponds…