Women and Biodiversity Feed the World, Not Corporations and GMOs

Biodiverse ecological agriculture in women's hands is a solution not just to the malnutrition crisis, but also the climate crisis.

Vandana Shiva

Things Not to Say to a Trans Person

BBC Free Speech got together some people from the transgender community to pick out questions they often hear. We asked, so you don't have to!

8 min

Comedy Sketch Shows Deep-Seated Sexism in Advertising

This is a clip from the BBC comedy series 'That Mitchell and Webb look' satirises sexism in advertising.

1 min

Early Men and Women Were Equal, Say scientists

Study shows that modern hunter-gatherer tribes operate on egalitarian basis, suggesting inequality was an aberration that came with the advent of agriculture

Hannah Devlin

Stop Telling Women To Smile

Stop Telling Women to Smile is an art series by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh. The work attempts to address gender based street harassment by placing drawn portraits of women, composed with captions that speak directly to offenders, outside in public spaces.

6 min

Anita Sarkeesian: "What I Couldn't Say"

Talking about the most intimate fears and insecurities, accusations of "playing the gender card", "first-world problems", jokes made 'too soon' - why are some topics still too hard to talk about, & what are women losing by keeping them to themselves.

5 min

The Hunting Ground (trailer)

From the team behind THE INVISIBLE WAR, comes a startling exposé of rape crimes on U.S. campuses, institutional cover-ups and the brutal social toll on victims and their families. Weaving together verité footage and first-person testimonies, the film follows survivors as they...

2 min

10 Words Every Girl Should Learn

"Stop interrupting me."

Soraya Chemaly

Qahera: a superhero

This is less of a superhero comic and more of a tribute. I remember at one point during the revolution, people would use statistics of attacks on women to discredit political movements – and Egyptians – at large. This keeps happening, consistently, both locally and...

Deena Mohamed

The Gulabi Gang

In this week's show an homage to women everywhere, a look at the trolls from the Men's Rights Movements and how the Gulabi Gang in India who are beating down rapitsts with big ass sticks. On the music break, Bambu with "The Queen is Dead."

15 min

25 Invisible Benefits of Gaming While Male

Many women have courageously spoken out about how they experience alienation and harassment in gaming. Despite this fact, too many male gamers still dismiss the issue as "no big deal" and insist that there isn’t really a problem. One of the luxuries of being a member of a...

5 min

Patriarchy Is Killing Our Planet

The global epidemic of violence against women and their systematic exclusion from the power structures that rule us are integral to man's violent exploitation of Earth and her resources, writes Nafeez Ahmed. The fight to save the Earth must begin with the empowerment of women...

Nafeez Ahmed

In 5 Minutes, This Student Destroys Our Double Standards For Men And Women

Tyler Kingkade

Looking for Leaders on Climate? Follow the Women Farmers

Across the globe, countless women are standing up to the ravages of climate change – and to the governments and big businesses who are allowing it to destroy the world "I give you a message from my heart," she says, "let's move forward and work together for the benefit of...

Jon Queally

Reimagining Feminism

Every morning I read my one-year-old daughter a fabulous children's alphabet book. When we get to the letter F, it goes "F is for Feminist, Fairness in our Pay." Of course a children's book is limited in its ability to express nuanced layers of analysis, but I often wonder...

Harsha Walia

When the Grandmothers Awoke

Becoming a global family, one that unites ancient indigenous wisdom with other faith and cultural traditions, is essential if humanity is to overcome the crises of climate change.

Jennifer Browdy

Why Are so Many Women in Prison?

It's no secret that the incarceration rate in America has skyrocketed since the 1970's. But did you know the number of women behind bars has grown nearly twice the rate of men in recent years?

2 min

Wanted: Men Who Love

Every female wants to be loved by a male. Every woman wants to love and be loved by the males in her life. Whether gay or straight, bisexual or celibate, she wants to feel the love of father, grandfather, uncle, brother, or male friend. If she is heterosexual she wants the...

bell hooks

Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama (2009)

MOUNTAINS THAT TAKE WING features conversations that span 13 years between two formidable women whose lives and political work remain at the epicenter of the most important civil rights struggles in the US. Through the intimacy and depth of conversations, we learn about...

97 min

America the Beautiful (trailer)

In a society where "celebutantes" like Paris Hilton dominate newsstands and models who weigh less than 90 pounds die from malnutrition, female body image is one of the more dire problems facing today's society. "America the Beautiful" illuminates the issue by covering every base.

2 min

From Chiapas to Rojava: Seas Divide Us, Autonomy Binds Us

Despite being continents apart, the struggles of the Kurds and Zapatistas share a similar purpose: to resist capitalism, liberate women and build autonomy.

Petar Stanchev

Women in Labor History

The impact women have made in labor history is often missing from textbooks and the media despite the numerous roles women have played to organize, unionize, rally, document, and inspire workers—both men and women, children and adults, citizens and immigrants—to fight for...

Zinn Education Project

Going to Places That Scare Me: Personal Reflections on Challenging Male Supremacy

"Going to Places that Scare Me: Personal Reflections on Challenging Male Supremacy" is an excerpt from the critically acclaimed book, Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy by Chris Crass. Around the world, women...

Chris Crass

These Men Kept Harassing Women On The Streets, Until One Day This Happened... Mom?!

November 25th marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, so Everlast created this video in support for that day. In Peru, and around the world, more women are afraid of getting harassed on the street than anything else. So they decided to send...

3 min

State of Female Justice: What Makes You Rise?

In LA, February 6, Flanders hosted a live public event, bringing together women from the movements for racial, economic, environmental and media justice to discuss creating gender justice in our world. This State of Female Justice event is part of a series, developed by...

147 min

This Is The First and Last Rape Joke You'll Ever Need to Hear

Members of the Los Angeles based literacy group, Get Lit, perform "Rape Joke" at Brave New Voices 2014, a youth-centric poetry slam created by Youth Speaks.

4 min

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Have you ever encountered a baby whose gender is unknown to you?

Steve Bearman

Video: How Black Women Are Leading the #BlackLivesMatter Movement

While recent protests have focused on the deaths of black men, it's black women who are leading the charge.

Jihan Hafiz

An Open Letter From Assata Shakur: "I Am a 20th Century Escaped Slave"

My name is Assata Shakur, and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the US government’s policy towards people of color. I am an...

Assata Shakur

Angela Davis: ‘There is an Unbroken Line of Police Violence in the US that Takes Us Back to Slavery'

The activist, feminist and revolutionary explains how the ‘prison industrial complex’ profits from black people, that Barack Obama can’t be blamed for the lack of progress on race, and why Beyoncé is not a terrorist “There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United...

Stuart Jeffries

'Boys Send Me Rape Threats, So I Tell Their Moms': Meet the Woman Fighting Online Harassment

Rape threats are an all-too-common reality for women online. Just as often, the anonymity of the Internet makes it nearly impossible to strike back at trolls. What’s more, as is well documented, social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook have been s

Kali Holloway

How Does The Biggest Newspaper In The UK Represent Men and Women? It's Worse Than You Might Think

What happens if you collect The Sun for 6 months, cut out every picture of every man and every woman, find a wall and start sticking?

5 min

Terry Crews on Manhood, Feminism & the Mindset That Leads to Rape

These days we're talking a lot about gender: about sexism, discrimination, sexual assault, and gender roles. Actor, author and former NFL Football player Terry Crews, who is well known for his work on the TV series Brooklyn Nine-Nine and his appearances in ads for the brand...

22 min

Angela Davis On Violence

This excerpt from The Black Power Mixtape features a powerful interview with Angela Davis in 1972 in which she speaks about violence, which is still relevant today.

8 min

Anarchists in India Need You: Help Us Make India Gender-Tolerant!

"In three generations, India has systematically targeted and annihilated more than 50 million women from its population – a number which constitutes the sum total of the populations of Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Portugal put together (Banerji, Female Genocide)...

3 min

6 Things You Might Not Think Are Harassment But Definitely Are

I never cease to be astounded by the way that some people react to stories of harassment in the street. Just yesterday, we shared a story about a woman who taped herself walking around

Kat George

Don't Believe Women Are Endlessly Harassed? Watch This

It’s a little surprising someone didn’t think of this before. But here it is: hard evidence, irrefutable proof, upwards of 100 undeniable examples revealing just what kinds of casual, routine harassment await any young, “normal” American woman strolling around the city by...

Mark Morford

Do We Live in a Sexist Country?

Live current affairs debate from Cardiff, presented by Rick Edwards and Tina Daheley. Along with the other issues of the week, the question 'Do we live in a sexist country?' is debated.

26 min

Tropes vs Women in Video Games: Women as Background Decoration

Content Warning: This educational episode contains graphic sexual and violent game footage.

61 min

10 Female Revolutionaries That You Probably Didn't Learn About In History class

We all know male revolutionaries like Che Guevara, but history often tends to gloss over the contributions of female revolutionaries that have sacrificed their time, efforts, and lives to work towards burgeoning systems and ideologies. Despite misconceptions, there are tons...

Kathleen Harris

I Believe in Me: Fighting for Trans Rights in Prison

On the day of her release from state custody, Donisha McShan tells her story of finding her voice and standing up for her right to be treated as a woman.

7 min

5 Women Who Are Changing Our Relationship With the Earth

From left to right: Starhawk, Julia Butterfly Hill, Majora Carter, Vandana Shiva, and Patricia Gualinga. August 26th is Women’s Equality Day, a day to honor when American women gained the right to vote, 95 years ago. In honor of women’s equality, we present 5 fearless women...

Rachael Steineckert

If We Gave Men the Same Rape Advice We Give Women, Here's How Absurd It Would Sound

Earlier this week, a group of male students at North Carolina State University introduced Undercover Colors, a new line of nail polish designed to change color when it comes into contact with date rape drugs. While many have praised the young entrepreneurs, some anti-rape...

Julianne Ross

Farmher in the Dell: Women in Agriculture

Itʼs a cool spring day in Merville, BC as Moss Dance, sole proprietor of Ripple Farm, unfurls irrigation lines along tightly spaced rows of lettuces. Itʼs early in the season, but there are already fresh greens, radishes and onions ready to harvest for the weekly farmersʼ market.

Nicole Shaw

When We Judge a Person Harshly With a Label or Dismissal, We Kill the Human Being Inside of Them

No person or group of people is ever one thing. Inside each of us are a thousand diverse aspects - evolving dimensions.

Tim Hjersted

There Is No Such Thing as a Slut

A slut is useful — or, at least, the idea of her is. That’s what sociologists Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Laura T. Hamilton suggest in their recently published research on sex and status. Their study of party dorms and sorority life on one college campus dramatizes how all...

Melissa Gira Grant

Women Like Sex. Stop Making 'Health' Excuses for Why We Use Birth Control

When 99% of the female population uses contraception, it's sad that we can't just come out and say that we use it for sex. And that we like the sex – a lot. Women like to have sex. Some women who like to have sex don't want to get pregnant, so they use birth control. I...

Jessica Valenti

Where Sewing Machines Are Status symbols

In Atauro Island, Timor Leste, the 8,000-9,000 locals mainly work as subsistence farmers or fishermen, often struggling to make ends meet. When the women of the UK-based social enterprise Swags World (Simply Women and Girls in a Sustainable World) first visited, they found...

5 min

If Women's Roles In Ads Were Played By Men

Watch this. Then imagine what it would be like if most of the images you saw of men in every form of media were like this too. It would be a little weird, right?

2 min

18 Empowering Illustrations to Remind Everyone Who's Really in Charge of Women's Bodies

When Brazilian graphic designer Carol Rossetti began posting colorful illustrations of women and their stories to

Julianne Ross

A Gentlemen's Guide To Rape Culture

If you are a man, you are part of rape culture. I know … that sounds rough. You’re not a rapist. But you may (inadvertently) perpetuate the attitudes and behaviors commonly referred to as rape culture. You may be thinking, “Now, hold up, Zaron! You don’t know me, homey! I’ll...

Zaron Burnett III

For The Next 7 Generations (2009)

In 2004, thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers from all four corners, moved by their concern for our planet, came together at a historic gathering, where they decided to form an alliance: The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. This is their story. Four...

84 min

The One Meme That Proves That the Men You Least Suspect Can Be Feminists Too

Have you ever overheard an insufferable dude at a bar telling some really sexist-sounding story about "tapping that," and wished it would find its glorious happy feminist ending? Well, you're not alone. In fact, there's a meme for that.

Elizabeth Plank

Blurred Lines: The New Battle Of The Sexes (2014)

From bomb threats sent to campaigners for more females on banknotes to sexually explicit pop videos. From extreme laddism at universities to rape jokes in the school yard... Kirsty Wark explores whether there's a new culture abroad in which it's acceptable to write about...

53 min

The Colour of Beauty

Renee Thompson is trying to make it as a top fashion model in New York. She’s got the looks, the walk and the drive. But she’s a black model in a world where white women represent the standard of beauty. Agencies rarely hire black models. And when they do, they want them to...

18 min

War Zone (1998)

What does it feel like to be a woman on the street in a cultural environment that does nothing to discourage men from heckling, following, touching or disparaging women in public spaces? Filmmaker Maggie Hadleigh-West believes that the streets are a War Zone for women...

45 min

India: A Dangerous Place To Be A Woman (2013)

In December 2012 a young medical student was brutally gang-raped on board a bus in Delhi. Horrified by the attack, 28-year-old British Asian Radha Bedi travels to India to uncover the reality of life for young women there.

57 min

Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women (trailer)

In this update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity. Killing Us Softly 4 stands to challenge a new generation of students to take advertising seriously, and...

5 min

Jackson Katz: A Paradigm-Shifting Perspective On The Violence That Harms Both Women and Men

This should really get your brain thinking in entirely new ways.

19 min

It's Time Our Culture Rewrites the Story on Gender

Join the movement. Featuring: Jean Kilbourne, Pedro Noguera, Jackson Katz and Rosario Dawson.

2 min

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