In 2015, a group of feminist activists in China planned to commemorate International Women’s Day by handing out stickers calling out sexual harassment on subways and buses in cities throughout the country. For several years, they had been engaging in provocative performance art—acts of consciousness-raising that…
In recent years, the feminist slogan t-shirt has been more popular than it has in decades and is also a perfect symbol of the defanging number that capitalist girl-power has done on the idea of feminism (again). It has caused me, personally, disproportionate distress over commodification and intent and philosophy and…
On Sunday, the Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry penned an op-ed arguing for the importance of gender equality with the headline, “This Is Personal.” It’s personal, explains Curry, because he has two daughters. “I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that the idea of women’s equality has become a little more personal for…
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The hot A train is packed with post-workday commuters, and by the time I reach Tribeca it is happy hour. Suited professionals are spilling out from office buildings and into the many bars of the neighborhood. I walk past the same Irish pub three times before finally checking Google Maps; I am new to New York, and…
The first thing I noticed was all the pink. The pink carpet and pink velvet rope that led into the pink-lit bar, where you could procure a pink drink with a pink drink ticket. Inside it smelled pink—more specifically, like the cotton candy that was being served by women wearing pink wigs. All of this pink was how I…
On Wednesday, French lawmakers voted to outlaw street harassment, the enactment of which will soon be subject to fines of up to 750 euros (about $870), Reuters reports. The ban applies to gender-based harassment both in the streets and on public transit, according to the Washington Post.
New York Times best-selling author Jessica Knoll’s second novel, The Favorite Sister, is set on a fictitious reality show called Goal Diggars—a sort of Real Housewives meets Project Runway where five female entrepreneurs turn their startup business narratives into familiar Bravo plot lines. While they raise capital…
Poor Republican women politicians are having a rough time these days. At least, that’s the assertion in a curious story in Politico that states “while their female Democratic counterparts have benefited politically from going against the president on women’s issues, GOP women don’t have the same luxury” and that…
Civil partnerships are now open to hetero couples in the UK, after two people who do not want to get fucking married, no sir, doggedly pursued their case to the highest court in the country.
In March 2017, a small statue of a brass girl with her hands planted on her hips, staring down the famous statue of a bull on Wall Street, was installed by an ad agency under the cover of night—a bold political statement in honor of the one day in March where everyone in the world loves women. Now, thanks to the…
Ladies, are you tired of being gaslighted at work? Sick of earning less money and recognition for your hard work than your male colleagues? Ever get interrupted so many times in a meeting, you want to start screaming just to get the office’s attention? Or bite into a coworker’s arm just to give them a mild case of…
The president’s lawyer would like to clarify something he said about Stormy Daniels. On Wednesday, Rudy Giuliani said: “If you’re going to sell your body for money, you just don’t have a reputation. I may be old fashioned, I dunno.” He also said: “The business you were in entitles you to no degree of giving your…
During a lavish press conference at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Temple of Dendur, Cate Blanchett reportedly told the assembled group of press and other looky-loos that the point of Ocean’s 8 was “Encouraging children to crime.”
A new study looks at men’s nontraditional surname choices in heterosexual marriage and—in the words of ScienceDaily—asks, “What kind of guy would take his wife’s last name?” I don’t know, a guy who glances at the calendar on the wall and realizes that it’s 20FUCKING18 ALREADY AND WHY ARE WE STILL DOING THIS DUMB MRS.…
In Part 2 of the Vanderpump Rules Season 6 reunion on Tuesday night, Andy Cohen encouraged the women in the group to discuss our favorite topic, which is, of course, The Purge. Just kidding, it’s feminism. Brittany and Lala, what do you think?
“It is not my way to trumpet the fact that I am a woman up for the top job at CIA, but I would be remiss in not remarking on it,” nominee Gina Haspel said in her opening remarks during Wednesday’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. Haspel was following a line of defense that has been offered for her nomination to…
Erika Lust thinks porn is a lot like the restaurant industry. “McDonald’s is doing food and this restaurant is doing food”—she gestures around her—“but they’re completely different concepts.”
You might expect a feminist social critique of bulimia, fat-shaming, and emotional abuse from academia or, say, this here blog, but not so much mainstream porn—and yet, here we are. The porn studio Pure Taboo has released a new feature, The Weight of Infidelity, with a “controversial plotline about society’s struggles…
The women’s movement has experienced a thrilling resurgence in the time since Donald Trump was elected president, and along with it, the less thrilling phenomenon of commercial feminism. This is a messy state of affairs as it is, but when public officials are involved in packaging empowerment as a product to be…
