Hillary Clinton appears to have skipped this season of Slow Burn, claiming in a CBS interview on Sunday that Bill Clinton did not abuse his position of power when he had an affair with then-intern Monica Lewinsky. Why? Because Lewinsky “was an adult” at the time.
Yue Xin, a #MeToo activist in China, has been missing for more than six weeks, after she was detained by state police at the end of August over her participation in a labor rights protest. It’s a grim reminder that activists in China can—and often do—face extreme repercussions for their organizing.
Last October, Jezebel began a post to keep track of the men who had been accused of sexual misconduct. The men who have been publicly accused of rape, harassment, sexual assault by victims who, until #MeToo, would have gone ignored. We quickly realized that there were simply too many to keep track of and abandoned the…
A 26-year-old Miami woman was allegedly raped over Labor Day weekend in 2017 by her Uber driver.
Lynzy Lab, a dance teacher at Texas State University, recently went viral with her hit “Scary Time”—a revision of some dumb shit the president said. In honor of International Day of the Girl, Jimmy Kimmel invited her onto his show Thursday night to perform said song.
It has been a year, or in some cases less, but they are back: Louis CK, Jian Ghomeshi, John Hockenberry, and other men who left their jobs or retreated from public view following allegations (and outright admissions) of sexual abuse and harassment.
A Missouri woman was raped just hours after attending a #MeToo rally at Park Central Square in Springfield, MO on Saturday, the Springfield News-Leader reports.
Last December, a former Def Jam music executive named Drew Dixon told The New York Times that Russell Simmons raped her in 1995 after a period of aggressive sexual harassment at work. At the time of the alleged assault, Dixon was just 24, with successful projects under her belt and a platinum record. But even though…
Maggie Gyllenhaal sat down with New York Magazine’s David Marchese to discuss her HBO series The Deuce, her upcoming Netflix movie The Kindergarten Teacher, and the #MeToo movement. In the interview, which was published Wednesday, Marchese connected the dots between the former and the latter of those topics and asked…
First Lady Melania Trump says she supports survivors of sexual assault and thinks they “need to be heard,” but also asserts that they must have “really hard evidence” to support their accusations.
Hollywood is built on a graveyard of indiscretions that either went unreported or ignored. This was never more clear to me than when researching the notorious Hollywood producer Jon Peters, who has been sued several times for sexual harassment and who’s credited as a producer on Bradley Cooper’s 2018 remake of A Star…
The Daily Mail has acquired a harrowing excerpt from Tina Turner’s upcoming memoir, My Love Story, in which the singer details an abusive sexual relationship with her late ex-husband, Ike Turner. She writes that she didn’t want to marry him, even in 1962, but with four children between them she “didn’t have much…
In a Senate floor speech announcing her support for now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Maine Republican Susan Collins applauded the “#MeToo movement” as “needed” and “long overdue.” She then proceeded to hand a lifetime appointment to a man accused of sexual assault and harassment by multiple women. According…
On the one-year anniversary of Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s exhaustive report about Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual assault and harassment, Susan Collins delivered a lengthy speech where the Republican senator argued that even though she thinks #MeToo is important, she would vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to…
In the wake of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, mockery of sexual assault victims seems to have become a Republican talking point: Donald Trump openly mocked Dr. Christine Blasey Ford at a rally, his son mocked a then-anonymous Ford with an Instagram post, and other Republican officials and candidates have been…
Another Bollywood actor has been accused of sexual misconduct allegations, as Indian women continue to speak out about their experiences in the workplace.
Rose McGowan is done with Hollywood, apparently. The Sunday Times interviewed McGowan and writes that she “swears she will never act again,” in order to remain critical of the industry. Not that she has any trouble doing that currently. “I just think they’re douchebags,” she says.
At first, I thought Michelle Williams and I were going to have a 15-minute conversation about superheroes and CGI. The four-time Oscar-nominated actor has brought her considerable talents to the latest Marvel movie—the Spider-Man-adjacent and refreshingly bizarre Venom (which, among other things, is sort of a buddy…
California, whose beaches and progressive policies have earned it the title “The Only Good State in America” (judge and jury: me), has strengthened its sexual harassment laws, thanks to a series of bills signed by Governor Jerry Brown on Sunday.
Last year, former Mad Men writer Kater Gordon accused series creator Matthew Weiner of telling her, one night as they worked alone together, that he “deserved to see her naked,” then fired her a year later. Weiner denied the charges then, and re-addressed them in an interview with Vanity Fair this week, claiming that…
