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Healing a Suicide Attempt: Cartooning My Experience
Healing a Suicide Attempt: Cartooning My Experience
In April 2012, I attempted suicide whilst living in San Francisco. It was - obviously - an incredibly intense time, but in many ways the time that followed the attempt was even more intense than the time that led to it.  The road I walked after my attempt was different to...
Amani Omejer
Precarious Lives: Memorializing Women of Color Who Died After Police Encounters
Precarious Lives: Memorializing Women of Color Who Died After Police Encounters
The editorial staff of Othering & Belonging: Expanding the Circle of Human Concern,
Daisy Rockwell
For Little Girls Inspired by Hillary Clinton
For Little Girls Inspired by Hillary Clinton
As an Indigenous woman who organizes in the hopes that both Black and Brown people might know greater freedom, safety and self determination, I am no fan of electoral politics.
Kelly Hayes
MissMe - This Is the Story of How I Got Broken
MissMe - This Is the Story of How I Got Broken
Street artist MissMe, the Artful Vandal, offers a very personal, very intimate take on the many little hits that broke her and on how she recovered from the one big blow to re-make herself and become the powerhouse that she is today.
15 min
We Already Know How to Reduce Police Racism and Violence
We Already Know How to Reduce Police Racism and Violence
Recent research has shown cities what works. For starters, hire more female police officers.
Kate Stringer
Theresa May Becomes Britain's 2nd Female PM - This Is NOT a Feminist Victory
Theresa May Becomes Britain's 2nd Female PM - This Is NOT a Feminist Victory
Eleanor Penny on all the ways the former Home Secretary has screwed over women.
2 min
Why Has It Taken the Menstrual Cup so Long to Go Mainstream?
Why Has It Taken the Menstrual Cup so Long to Go Mainstream?
Its long, sputtering history tells us that we change what we use only after we change how we think.
Natalie Shure
How to Talk to Little Girls
How to Talk to Little Girls
Top tips for engaging with girls to boost their self-esteem and value their intellect
Lisa Bloom
We Are the Wheels of Justice
We Are the Wheels of Justice
This short film looks at the sport of roller derby and interviews the women of the Rose City Rollers who talk about how it has allowed them to celebrate, love and appreciate their bodies.
7 min
Dear Straight Allies, Please Don't Come to Pride Until You've Understood These 6 Things
Dear Straight Allies, Please Don't Come to Pride Until You've Understood These 6 Things
1. The first Pride was a police riot. We hold Pride each summer to commemorate the Stonewall Riots of 1969. At the time, most states had laws banning LGBT people from assembling in groups. Despite being illegal, the mob opened LGBT bars to profit off of the open...
Meg Ten Eyck
Five Signs You've Found an Evolved Man, and Why You Should Be Scared Sh**Less
Five Signs You've Found an Evolved Man, and Why You Should Be Scared Sh**Less
For all the women looking for an evolved man and all the men trying to live up to the standard.
Scarlet Amor
In the Absence of the Village, Mothers Struggle Most
In the Absence of the Village, Mothers Struggle Most
Dear Mothers, I’m writing you today because I can no longer contain the ache in my gut and fire in my heart over an injustice that you and I are bearing the brunt of.
Beth Berry
Five of the Most Influential Women in the World Today
Five of the Most Influential Women in the World Today
Forbes just released its list of the top 100 most powerful women of 2016. We took a look and picked out the top five women who aren't entrepreneurs or corporate executives.
2 min
Husbandry: a Reclamation of Men's Responsibility to Care
Husbandry: a Reclamation of Men's Responsibility to Care
To stop the economy’s advance towards greed and destruction, we need new metaphors and images that inspire a radically different alternative.
Julie A. Nelson
Why It's Crucial for Women to Heal the Mother Wound
Why It's Crucial for Women to Heal the Mother Wound
The issue at the core of women’s empowerment is the mother wound
Bethany Webster
The Most Dangerous People Always Claim They Want to Protect You From Dangerous People
The Most Dangerous People Always Claim They Want to Protect You From Dangerous People
Content warning: rape, Donald Trump, right-wing extremism.
4 min
Jessica Valenti: My Life as a 'Sex Object'
Jessica Valenti: My Life as a 'Sex Object'
In her teens, strangers flashed her on the subway, teachers asked for hugs and boys joked about her breasts. Should she laugh off a lifetime of objectification – or get angry?
Jessica Valenti
The Little Man Who Lives in My Head
The Little Man Who Lives in My Head
“It finally clicked. I have bad self esteem when it comes to men.” — Journal Entry, October 27, 2015
Zee Chang
This Is My Body: A Formal Introduction
This Is My Body: A Formal Introduction
This is my body is a spoken word piece by Agnes Torok, a commentary on people judging, grabbing and commenting on her body. She talks about the all the incredible things she can do with her body and how she shouldn't be seen as a sex object. Support Agnes is her work here.
2 min
Tales From the Trump Archive
Tales From the Trump Archive
The Daily Show look beyond the campaign trail rhetoric to find out what Donald Trump had to say about poor people and women before he was trying to become President.
8 min
We Sold Feminism to the Masses, and Now It Means Nothing
We Sold Feminism to the Masses, and Now It Means Nothing
These days, feminism is on fleek. Touted by everyone from Dove to Barbie to Taylor Swift, consumer capitalism has made feminism sexy, fun, cool—and remarkably easy to claim as your own. But the price tag has been the meaning of the movement itself.
Marcie Bianco
100 Years of Hijab Fashion in 1 Minute
100 Years of Hijab Fashion in 1 Minute
Today’s industry is quickly catching onto the modest fashion trend, but the hijab is much more than a fad. While more and more businesses are seeing it as a lucrative commodity, the headscarf is a religious garment just as much as a political one. For generations, it has been...
1 min
The Most Radical Experiment in Direct Democracy and Gender Equality can be Found in the Middle East
The Most Radical Experiment in Direct Democracy and Gender Equality can be Found in the Middle East
Rahila Gupta meets the women fighters who are helping to stop the advance of ISIS while also leading a radical democratic charge against capitalist ideology. Welcome to the Rojava phenomenon.
Rahila Gupta
Women Get Real About Body Hair
Women Get Real About Body Hair
We all have it. Now, let's talk about it. Watch on for an intimate conversation about women and body hair.
2 min
A Non-Exhaustive List of All the Things I Used to Do to Try to Become More Beautiful
A Non-Exhaustive List of All the Things I Used to Do to Try to Become More Beautiful
I used to get made fun of for my big front teeth. Once, when I got home from school, I found my mom’s nail file and tried to file them down. The edge of the nail file caught on my lip after I sawed away for a few minutes and punctured a hole in my cheek. I sat there, crying...
Rosemary Donahue
On Wanking: Breaking the Silence
On Wanking: Breaking the Silence
I’m writing this article in a whisper. There’s something about the topic of masturbation that seems especially scary to broach. There are friends that I have known most of my life that I have never really talked about this with – and if I have it’s been furtively, with a...
Vanessa Kisuule
Performing 'The Vagina Monologues' at an All-Male Prison
Performing 'The Vagina Monologues' at an All-Male Prison
Here's what happened when a group of women performed 'The Vagina Monologues' in an all-male prison.
2 min
Pennies Make Pounds
Pennies Make Pounds
With a house that was starting to wear down and energy bills that were going up, Dawn McInnes recognized she and her two sons were living on the edge of fuel poverty.
10 min
Photo Series Depicts Women's Experience of Male Entitlement
Photo Series Depicts Women's Experience of Male Entitlement
"Boundaries" draws attention to the oppression of male entitlement that women feel on a daily basis in everyday life.
Amanda Froelich
Smile
Smile
Men of the world, women would like to thank you for your advice.
3 min
Can Porn Be Feminist? A Conversation With Erika Lust
Can Porn Be Feminist? A Conversation With Erika Lust
Feminist porn is sex on film showing women and men as sexual equals - that sex is something you do together, not just something that a man does to a woman
Harriet Williamson
A Better Analogy for Sexual Assault
A Better Analogy for Sexual Assault
Emma Lindsay responds to an all too common argument about women’s responsibilities with respect to alcohol and rape
Emma Lindsay
Sexism Is Hard to Explain
Sexism Is Hard to Explain
This morning I was walking into my building and a man was walking parallel with me. He was going towards one set of doors; I was going towards a pair adjacent to them. He smiled at me and gestured me over to his side with a head nod. “Let me get the door for you.” (He meant...
Kel Campbell
This All-Women Bike Crew Is Running Gentrifiers Out of Town
This All-Women Bike Crew Is Running Gentrifiers Out of Town
Almost six years ago, Xela de la X, a local Los Angeles community activist and musician, organized the first Luna Ride, a nighttime bicycling event that takes place beneath the full moon. This event marked the founding of the Ovarian Psycos, a collective of brown and black...
Tasbeeh Herwees
Missme: The Artful Vandal
Missme: The Artful Vandal
Former advertising industry art director takes to the streets, recliaming space and chalenging the way women are portrayed in the media.
4 min
"Women Can't Play Music"
"Women Can't Play Music"
Self-esteem holds us back and undermines our happiness; but it can be overcome
Joanne Stephens
White Men Needed to Play Devil's Advocate
White Men Needed to Play Devil's Advocate
Someone posted this amazing ad on Montreal Craigslist
Anon
Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings
Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings
The world needs all of us to become healers. It needs us to nurture the sacred feminine and the sacred masculine that lies dormant to various degrees w
Tim Hjersted
#Istandup Against the Harm Caused by Objectification of Women in Advertising
#Istandup Against the Harm Caused by Objectification of Women in Advertising
A powerful new campaign wants advertisers to know that many consumers are fed up with how women are portrayed. Women Not Objects, a project dedicated to calling out the objectification of women in commercials, magazine spreads and other forms of advertising, has released a...
3 min
I Am Half: How Can We Inspire More Men to Make a Public Stand for Equality?
I Am Half: How Can We Inspire More Men to Make a Public Stand for Equality?
Most of the pain and killing and suffering comes from the hands of men in my age group. If all of a sudden all the men between 25-35 did half of what was on this list. If all the men in this age group dropped their weapons, ceased to objectify women and were more accepting of...
Jordan Jacques Aboutboul
Ending Circumcision: Where Sex and Violence First Meet
Ending Circumcision: Where Sex and Violence First Meet
Flowers In the Rain Cold, wet, and tired from the long morning rally, my eight year-old asks again why we are here. We are standing with about fifty other media people, organizers, and just your ordinary eccentrics, grandmothers and fathers, university professors, musicians...
Jeannine Parvati Baker
Women's Wisdom: A Powerful Message Celebrating the Feminine Values That Are Transforming The World
Women's Wisdom: A Powerful Message Celebrating the Feminine Values That Are Transforming The World
How is women’s leadership differing from typical male models? What makes it a decisive gamechanger in today’s world? This video showcases extraordinary women who are reframing the role of women and the feminine; proposing different responses to confrontation; transforming the...
4 min
Mother of All Rivers
Mother of All Rivers
In a country with growing socioeconomic inequality and human rights violations, Berta Cáceres rallied the indigenous Lenca people and waged a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world's largest dam builder to pull out of a major project.
8 min
Bernie Vs. Hillary: What's a Feminist to Do?
Bernie Vs. Hillary: What's a Feminist to Do?
America's Only Elected Female Socialist on Women and the Presidential Race
Kshama Sawant
Feminism Against Capitalism
Feminism Against Capitalism
Ultimately the goals of a radical feminism and socialism are the same — justice and equality for all people.
Nicole M. Aschoff
We Are #WomenNotObjects
We Are #WomenNotObjects
Join the conversation: #WomenNotObjects Twitter: @Not_Objects Instagram: @WomenNotObjects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/womennotobjects
2 min
The Surfer Who Wouldn't Take No for an Answer
The Surfer Who Wouldn't Take No for an Answer
Being the best female surfer in Brazil wasn't enough to secure Silvana Lima the sponsorship she needed for her surfing career. In an image-driven market, she wasn't considered pretty enough to get full sponsorship for the first 13 years of her career. Silvana refused to let...
4 min
What the Icelandic Know - Gender Equality in Iceland
What the Icelandic Know - Gender Equality in Iceland
An American Photographer Explores Gender Equality and Sexism in one of the Most Equal Countries on Earth.
Emily von Hoffmann
Why Patriarchy Persists (And How We Can Change It)
Why Patriarchy Persists (And How We Can Change It)
“Patriarchy has no gender.” ― bell hooks in Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom bell hooks’ quote is a clear reminder that patriarchy does not just describe male actions of domination, but also how some organizations and cultural narratives function. Patriarchy...
Drew Serres
Bernie Sanders on Women's Rights
Bernie Sanders on Women's Rights
Bernie Sanders is a Feminist.
5 min
The Trouble With Equality: Feminism and the Forgotten Places of Power
The Trouble With Equality: Feminism and the Forgotten Places of Power
"...Patriarchy is not the rule of men over women, it's the rule of the binary - the insistence that there really are sides, and that each is a pre-existing category unto itself, fixed and hallowed, one superior to another."
Adebayo Akomolafe
The Commodification of Self Care and the Terrible Art of Relentless Self Love
The Commodification of Self Care and the Terrible Art of Relentless Self Love
“Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest—thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.”  ...
Rae Swersey
Rojava’s Democratic, Feminist Revolution a Source of Hope among Horror
Rojava’s Democratic, Feminist Revolution a Source of Hope among Horror
In the Rojava region of Syria, despite the difficulties, people are organizing communes and women’s councils. Syria can seem an endless black hole of misery, but in the northern, largely Kurdish region of Rojava, it is also the scene of a profoundly democratic and humanist...
Tony Iltis & Stuart Munckton
The Repressed Man: What He Really Needs From His Partner
The Repressed Man: What He Really Needs From His Partner
We hear a lot of talk about the oppression of women, but do we really hear any talk about the oppression of men? Quite frankly, I never have. At least not in the way I'm about to explain. As a life coach and hairstylist for 25 years, I have had my share of up close and...
Kristen Brown
The Conflicting Way Women Relate to Sex (And How to Overcome It)
The Conflicting Way Women Relate to Sex (And How to Overcome It)
Men are obsessed with sex, according to this article by Steve Bearman in Elephant Journal (and re-posted on this website). Men are thought to think about sex all the time, and allowed to be sexual all the time. For women that is pretty different...! We will be frequently...
Nina Koevoets
GTFO: Get the F&#% Out
GTFO: Get the F&#% Out (trailer)
Sparked by a public display of sexual harassment in 2012, GTFO pries open the video game world to explore a 20 billion dollar industry that is riddled with discrimination and misogyny. In recent years, the gaming community has grown more diverse than ever. This has led to a...
2 min
Gender and the Body Language of Power
Gender and the Body Language of Power
Philosopher Sandra Lee Bartky once observed that being feminine often means using one’s body to portray powerlessness.  Consider: A feminine person keeps her body small and contained; she makes sure that it doesn’t take up to much space or impose itself.  She walks and sits...
Lisa Wade, PhD
5 Ways Men Can Help End Sexism
5 Ways Men Can Help End Sexism
What role should men play in working towards an end to sexism? How much or how little should men be helping? In this video we will explore answers to those questions and share a few suggestions for how men can respectfully approach feminism. We also explain why ending sexism...
10 min
Open Letter to Hillary Clinton From a Young Palestinian Feminist
Open Letter to Hillary Clinton From a Young Palestinian Feminist
Dear Secretary Clinton:
Layali Awwad
What's It Like To Be A Black Girl In Rome?
What's It Like To Be A Black Girl In Rome?
Watch the video to find out the answer to that question for some.
12 min
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