The girls want to learn — that much is clear. If there is one message that comes across from Al Jazeera’s article, “Educating girls in South Sudan,” (sponsored by the International Women’s…
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The first regional strike to protest violence against women and girls took place on Wednesday in Latin America. An estimated 100,000 people took to the streets in Argentina after a 16-year-old girl…
People of all political stripes are going nuts over audio revealing Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump bragging about sexual assault. While Trump defensively claimed his words were nothing more than “locker room…
Let’s get the preamble out of the way: the impeachment process against Brazil’s first female President, Dilma Rousseff, was political theater intended to cover up the incompetence of the conservative opposition. Accused…
In May, I participated in a protest against Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in Eugene, Oregon. A pro-Trump rally was scheduled and some of my friends figured it demanded a counter message.…
A U.S. artist named Spencer Tunick is planning a large-scale art project featuring 100 naked women holding mirrors. “Everything She Says Means Everything,” will take place on July 17, 2016, the week…
On April 10th, The Girlfriend Experience — a 10 episode long series starring Riley Keough — premiered on Starz. The premise of the show centers around a law school student named Christine…
Another day, another billion-dollar porn company asking people to jerk off in order to “save an endangered species.” Not only does Pornhub profit from the sexualization of domestic violence, rape, and sexual…
She cheated, y’all. Before you start making any judgment calls, let’s take a moment to remember that she cheated! That seems to be the reaction of many people to the video of…
A total ban on abortion has been reaffirmed in the Dominican Republic. “Total,” meaning that even if you are a teenage girl dying from leukemia and the only thing preventing doctors from…
I remember the moment vividly. I was at the beach in the Dominican Republic with my sister and had just gone up to the bar to get some food when an older…
A write up on the satirical website, The Onion, titled “The Pros and Cons of Legalizing Prostitution” presents a telling picture. The piece is meant to be funny but inadvertently demonstrates the…
So Amnesty International voted in favour of adopting a policy that calls for the full decriminalization of the sex trade. Hurray? Once the celebration or despair subsides we are left we a…
It seems everyone has an opinion on Rihanna’s video, “Bitch Better Have My Money,” co-directed by the artist herself, alongside a couple of male directors from Megaforce. What I want to address,…