The first episode of the Gloria Steinem-hosted and produced series Woman from Viceland aired last night; it is available for your viewing pleasure online, and covers the extreme sexual violence facing women in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The second requires a cable login, and looks at women soldiers of the FARC,…
Gloria Steinem Did Team Up with Vice, and Is Releasing a Series on Their New Channel
Rumors that began circulating in the fall have been proven true today: in a press release Monday, Vice announced that Gloria Steinem is executive producing a series for their new channel Viceland called WOMAN, about “how violence against women drives global instability.”
Owen Labrie Files Motion Requesting New Trial
In the classic tradition of responsibility-evading white men the world over, Owen Labrie has filed a motion requesting a new trial after his conviction on sexual assault charges. Labrie, who was also recently sentenced to a year for violating his probation, has a new attorney, who is arguing that his old ones provided…
Owen Labrie Sentenced to One Year in Jail For Violating His Probation
Earlier this week, prosecutors asked that Owen Labrie’s bail be revoked and that he be returned to jail for violating the terms of his parole. Labrie, who was free on probation pending his appeal, was spotted by a Vice contributor on a Boston-bound train earlier this month. He stupidly decided to grant the…
Vice Interview Might Land Owen Labrie in Jail
Earlier this month, Vice contributor Susan Zalkind spotted convicted sex offender Owen Labrie, 19, on a train in Boston. Labrie, Vice reports, was on the train to visit his girlfriend at Harvard. Zalkind had covered Labrie’s trial; the former student at the prestigious St. Paul’s School became the poster boy for a…
Playboy Loses the Playboy Within: The Magazine Will No Longer Feature Nudes
Well, there goes the neighborhood, if your neighborhood is magazines being known for the thing they’ve always been known for. Starting in March, after years of circulation struggles, Playboy magazine will no longer include fully nude photos of women, just images of women as naked as you’d see them in any other…
If You Mock Garden State, You Will Hurt Zach Braff's Fragile Heart
Garden State, the movie you binged on when you weren’t listening to The Shins’ “New Slang” on repeat, was released 11 years ago. And on September 14, Vice published a commemorative article reliant on one basic premise: we all loved Garden State for exactly one year. Then we realized it was self-indulgent, overwrought…
Vice Writers Have Reportedly Unionized
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that writers at Williamsburg-based Vice Media have voted to unionize:
Rihanna Discovered Sanam, One Of Her BBHMM Henchwomen, On Instagram
In the video for “Bitch Better Have My Money,” Rihanna kidnaps model Rachel Roberts with the help of two friends/henchwomen. One of them, Instagram star and self-described “TECHNO PRINCESS MODEL” Sita Abellan, may have looked familiar to you. The other, Sanam, probably didn’t. In an interview with VICE, the Seattle…
Is It Selfish For a Woman to Declare That She's Done with Blowjobs?
A woman has taken a very public stand online against performing oral sex on the penis, deeming the organ admirably practical and sleek in design, but justnot for her. This bold declaration comes on the heels of years of being denied oral sex by men who were perfectly content to get theirs, while refusing to give in…
There Are 'Haunted' Dolls for Sale Online and They Cost a Fortune
Collecting dolls is intense enough. Collecting HAUNTED dolls? That's really graduate-level eccentricity. And yet, if that appeals, the Internet is ready and waiting to facilitate your interest.
Woman Discovers Her Photos Have Been Used to Catfish Others for Years
Most of our discussions of catfishing are limited to the catfishers and catfishees, but there's a third category we often forget about: the unwitting catfish-complicit, whose pictures and deets make the catfishing possible, and whose lives also get crappy and complicated when sucked into the mix.
Here's James Franco's Incoherent Essay About Fucking Lindsay Lohan
TL;DR: They probably did it, but who can tell when the writing is this disjointed and insufferable?
This 'Groin Gazing' Fashion Spread Starring Boners Is Amazing
Sometimes things that are revolutionary don't seem like that big of a deal. They seem like nothing special or just tongue-in-cheek enough to be more humorous than important social commentary, or just another cool thing on the internet. But who cares — even if something is all those things at once, it can still be…
Designer of Menstruating Vagina Shirt 'Trolled the Mainstream Media'
Petra Collins, the artist behind American Apparel's new menstruating vagina shirt, spoke to VICE and said that all the attention the shirt has gotten has been "really awesome" and "exactly" what she wanted.
Mocking Hipster Brags and Emo Politics
Today is a wonderful day for mocking online publications.
How Nice Does a Woman Have to Be to a Guy She Rejects?
In the world of rejections, I always think of the movie Say Anything: A guy is allowed/expected/culturally celebrated for wooing his ex back with grand gestures. It would be a very different movie if she simply called the police. (If a heartbroken woman holds up a boom box in the rain outside her ex's bedroom, the…
'Teenage Exorcists' Explain the Dangers of Sexually Transmitted Demons
Vice's new documentary Teenage Exorcists follows three teen girls from Arizona who tour the world saving souls from "sexually transmitted demons."
Human Barbie Starring in VICE Documentary, Naturally
Valeria Lukyanova started the trend of young girls in Odessa turning themselves in walking, talking Barbie dolls, and now she has her own VICE documentary, Space Barbie. It's called that because she looks like she's made of plastic and thinks she's from outer space.
Why Are We So Fascinated With Female Suicides?
Vice provoked the ire of denizens of decency around the web when they ran a fashion spread depicting photos of famous female authors in the act of doing themselves in. It has since been removed. But was it really in poor taste, or just poorly done? How should we talk about and show the complex tragedy of suicide?
