Just the other weekend I took a day trip with a few girlfriends to a small beach town in the south of France called Cassis. I had heard of France’s infamous topless beaches but had yet to ever go…...
In 1975, Susan Brownmiller declared in her bestseller Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape: “There can be no equality in porn, no female equivalent, no turning of the tables in the name of bawdy fun. Pornography, like rape, is a...
I remember when it was pretty common for people to insist, “if you believe in gender equality, then you’re a feminist.”
But is feminism really that simple? Sometimes, feminism is treated as a one-size-fits-all label, as though identifying as a feminist...
Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act to the Senate on a vote of 217 vs 213.
I don’t remember much from yesterday, besides the sinking feeling in my stomach as I pulled up article after...
I don’t know about you, but I sometimes have a hard time articulating my arguments about feminism in the heat of the moment. If someone says something like “women are already equal to men” or “we don’t need feminism...
There is a fine line between flattery and objectification. While being complimented is perceived as flattering by most, being whistled at isn’t. What’s the difference? Personally, it’s that being complimented is nice and generally begins a conversation, whereas being...
When Warner Bros. announced last week that an all-female film version of the classic novel Lord of the Flies was in the works, I’m sure that they were expecting to be hailed as progressive and in-touch by interested movie-goers. After...
We’ve all been there: dancing with friends at a party, hitting the books before a final exam, crawling into bed after a long day, when suddenly…yep, that’s definitely period blood, and, of course, you forgot to go buy tampons during your last...
