What makes a woman invulnerable to male violence? Apparently, if she is “an intelligent woman with a network of friends” and has a university degree. Despite having beaten his wife with a…
Tag: trans activism
The election of Donald Trump inspired the largest demonstration in U.S. history. Three million people in more than 500 American cities took to the streets, and we saw sister marches across the…
On Thursday, transgender columnist Juno Dawson published a thinly-veiled attack on feminists in GLAMOUR. This is not entirely off-brand for the magazine, who Dawson makes clear has always approached feminism through a…
The days of Marlo Thomas’ “Free to be… You and Me,” it seems, are long gone. Now, when kids don’t quite “fit” within the gender roles prescribed by a patriarchal society, no…
Planned Parenthood, as you may know, is the largest single provider of reproductive health services in the United States. The non-profit defines itself as “leading the reproductive health and rights movement,” and has…