In an essay posted to Medium Thursday, Amy Schumer addressed the backlash surrounding her recent “Formation” parody/spoof/tribute/video. “It was NEVER a parody,” she writes. “It was just us women celebrating each other.”

“It’s really hard for a lot of conservative women to contemplate the idea of feminism because it’s been so owned by liberal democrats pushing very progressive policy ideas,” Amanda Carpenter, a CNN contributor and former communications aide to Sen. Ted Cruz, said in a Washington Post video released yesterday. But…

Twelve years after their last release, Le Tigre has returned to the studio to record one new song. This is exciting! But fans, take heed: this single song is all we get. Think of it as a much-delayed parting gift.

In July, 8 months after Raf Simons’ exit, Christian Dior chief executive Sidney Toledano told the New York Times, “I had it in mind that a woman designer might be interesting for a while now.” Maria Grazia Chiuri, formerly the longtime co-creative director of Valentino, is “very practical,” he said. “Very…

Two years after the launch of the He For She campaign, actress and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson continues apace with her feminist projects. A few days ago she spoke at the U.N. about campus safety, and today she wished bell hooks happy birthday on Twitter. She also contributed to a Global Goals video…

Womanhood can be a contortion act. Prospering is often a matter of stretching, compressing and jaggedly code-switching like artists’ jointed wood mannequins—the kind girls buy in middle school when a Cosmopolitan quiz augurs the life of a painter. Perfect Woman, a Kinect game released last Wednesday, is about those…

In case you didn’t know, the Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller will soon release a new album entitled The Divine Feminine, whose most recent single, “My Favorite Part,” is a collaboration with rumored paramour Ariana Grande. It is what can best be described as a neo-soul joint, with Miller singing about how his favorite…

A woman named Kate Bryan wrote a column for the Washington Post about her life as a 32-year-old virgin. Her experience was framed as “living the feminist dream.” Okay. Let’s talk about that.

Famed non-feminist Phyllis Schlafly died Monday at the age of 92. Eunie Smith, the first Vice President of the “pro-family” conservative organization Schlafly founded, the Eagle Forum, said her death came at the end of “a long illness,” with Schlafly’s daughter confirming that said illness was cancer.

For those of you who have spent the past week wondering why Jezebel has not yet published a review of the long-awaited PC/console game No Man’s Sky, allow us to explain ourselves: we find the name of this “first person space travel” game to be distasteful, offensive, and shamelessly anti-feminist.

I realized being a man at Jezebel, a feminist blog, would be tough on my first day. After arriving to work in a new outfit, holding a latte from the coffee shop where I looked forward to becoming a regular, the site’s editor-in-chief, Emma Carmichael, led me past the red-stained floor of Jezebel’s pod inside Gawker…

The Guardian has run a wonderful story today about Khabar Lahariya (“News Waves”), the only newspaper in India “staffed, edited and run entirely by women, mostly from low-caste, rural backgrounds,” who publish local news in states where prevailing attitudes are that women maybe shouldn’t do such work, and maybe they…

In what may or may not become an annual tradition, Sarah Jessica Parker crawled out of hibernation to remind us that she is not a feminist—but the real disappointment here is that she didn’t even have the courtesy to dust off her old Sanderson Sisters drag and opine in song while flying around on an old mop.

In a piece published Thursday by Glamour, President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to feminism and to calling himself a feminist. “It’s important that their dad is a feminist,” Obama wrote, referring to his daughters Sasha and Malia, “because now that’s what they expect of all men.”

“Our motto is, when they go low, we go high,” Michelle Obama said in her speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night, a vivid, emotional, expertly delivered endorsement of Hillary Clinton that somehow managed to—at least temporarily—wipe away the grime of cynicism and anger that have colored the past…

Two notably enlightened teens captured the world’s interest this week, one through the barely tolerable medium of spoken word and the other through a weird Paper Magazine apology.

Lauded Nigerian author and celebrated feminist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie casually dropped that she had recently given birth in an interview with the Financial Times, subsequently catching her interviewer (and fans) unawares. And in case you were wondering, her decision to keep it quiet had a feminist animus.

Today, Ivanka Trump, daughter of GOP presumptive nominee and melted Claymation villain Donald Trump, made an interesting claim. “My father is a feminist,” she told London’s Sunday Times. Oh, cool.

In a move that has left some of its members disgruntled, the U.S. Marines Corps has decided to make a number of their service titles gender neutral by removing the word “man” from combat jobs—and as you might have guessed by now, some dudes be angry.

“I have to say, as an Israeli politician coming to the States this time, I feel less uncomfortable than I usually do,” Israeli parliament member Merav Michaeli told me last month during an interview at Gawker Media’s offices, referring to the orange-tinged radioactive cloud currently looming over the United States…