My grandfather has always encouraged my independence. When I broke off an engagement with a man I know my grandfather had come to love, he surprised me when he said, “For the first time, you are not living under the control of a man.” Last year, when I objected to an ancient Hindu belief that says a grandfather goes…
Two months ago on a whim, I got my first tattoo. After an hour and a half, I emerged with a tiny Egyptian cross etched between my least favorite parts of my body—my breasts. It was a daily reminder not to ignore them and to finally start to embrace them. It’s safe to say I felt like Rihanna standing in the bathroom…
Uptalk used to seem like a bad thing. The “Valley girl” speech pattern, wherein a speaker’s statements end with an upward inflection that makes them sound like questions, was first recognized by linguists in the 1970s and was long mocked as a sign of unseriousness. In 1993, New York Times writer James Gorman admitted…
Last week, footage of two women fighting in Overwatch went viral.“You’re one of the worst Mercys I’ve ever played with,” one told her team’s Mercy player. “Me? You’re the Mercy who’s rezzing one person and feel like they’re really good,” the second player, Bailee, shot back.
Women’s rights activist Roxcy Bolton died last Wednesday in her home state of Florida. She was 90 years old.
Some stories are so obviously feminist it seems irrelevant to ask TV and film adaptors about the inherent message within, yet plenty of showrunners and producers bend over backwards to avoid the F word. It’s refreshing that the star of Wonder Woman is embracing the term.
The Handmaid’s Tale is one of the finest dystopian novels ever written, and it is, inescapably and fundamentally, about women’s oppression under an ultra-conservative regime. The much-anticipated Hulu series based on the book doesn’t shy away from the original subject matter; it couldn’t, really, and remain the …
On April 21, 1944, French women were granted the right to vote after fighting for suffrage since the French Revolution. This Sunday is the beginning of an election that might take France the closest to fascism that it’s been since 1944, and much has been made of the fact that the one who could usher in this change is…
Last month in Washington Square, participating in the Women’s Strike, I wore a baby pink sweatshirt that reads “Ni Santas, Ni Putas, Solo Mujeres,” a long-defining chant of the Mexican feminist movement. I bought the shirt from Bella Doña, a line owned and operated by Xicanas from Los Angeles; from there, I’ve also…
Female American cockroaches (the big ones that people like to euphemize as “waterbugs”) can reproduce without males, according to a study out of Japan’s Hokkaido University. The study also revealed that this process is expedited within groups of females who synchronize production of egg cases. Sounds like feminism in…
“In the US, we are living in a time that is worse than the few years after the September 11th attacks,” said Rasmea Odeh to nearly 1,000 people gathered at the Chicago Teachers Union Hall to commemorate International Women’s Day on March 8. “Israeli and U.S. policies make it easy to target our people,” she continued, …
During the International Women’s Day strike, Margaret Atwood was working hard to share her thoughts about feminism.
We’ve a new development in one of the millennium’s most boring questions: Boobs—feminist or nah? Recently actress Emma Watson—a grown woman—appeared in Vanity Fair wearing an ensemble that exposes parts of her breasts. And now certain individuals are demanding that she hand over her Feminist Card for this most…
Kellyanne Conway has been losing her hold as a television talking head and was even sidelined by the White House for being consistently “off message.” She is, however, still very on message for the Conservative Political Action Conference.
In the Spring of 2016, writer Jessa Crispin abruptly closed her beloved literary blog Bookslut and subsequently gave Vulture a fiery interview, in which she revealed that she was writing a new book on why “contemporary feminism is not only embarrassing but incredibly misguided to the point where I can’t associate…
According to Overwatch lore, D.va is a pro gamer who serves and inspires her country. In real life, D.va’s role is starting to mirror her in-game persona, as she becomes a symbol of hope for women in South Korea.
Today, when every 26-year-old woman I pass on my West Village street seems to have her own start-up, and women’s empowerment conferences are redundantly full of millionairesses in Manolos with daily blow-outs and triplex brownstones in the world’s shiniest borough—Brooklyn, which used to be known for grandmothers in…
A story today in the New York Times ponders the question of whether or not a woman can be both a feminist and a supporter of anti-choice public policies. It presents the issue as a question particularly relevant in our modern political climate, made even more pertinent by the upcoming Women’s March on Washington. The…
After 12 years at Fox News, Megyn Kelly plans to leave the network in favor of a “broad new role” at NBC, the New York Times reports. Kelly, who was wooed for an undisclosed amount, will host her own daytime show, anchor a Sunday-night news show and participate in political programming and big-event coverage.
