The New York Times Puts Another Alleged Rape Victim on Trial
April 19, 2011 by Stephanie Hallett · 35 Comments
Last month, The New York Times stirred massive controversy by implicating an 11-year-old girl in her own brutal gang-rape, reporting that she “dressed older than her age [and wore] make-up.” This ...Read More
Did The New York Times Blame the 11-Year-Old Victim of a Texas Gang Rape?
March 9, 2011 by Andrea Grimes · 27 Comments
There is so much that is horrid with regard to this story coming out of small-town East Texas: 18 men and teenage boys have been arrested in the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl in Cleveland, TX. There’s ...Read More
Why There’s Gender Bias in Media–and What We Can Do About It
February 10, 2011 by Margot Magowan · 7 Comments
The grassroots women’s literary group VIDA just released some frightening statistics about gender bias in publishing: The New York Review of Books has 462 male bylines to 79 female, about a 6-to-1 ...Read More
Boehner Bias?
January 7, 2011 by Annie Shields · 7 Comments
On Wednesday, Nancy Pelosi handed over the speaker’s gavel to John Boehner, who is charged with leading the “Tea Party Congress” in their efforts to repeal health care reform, disband ...Read More
An Open Letter to The New Yorker
January 3, 2011 by Anne Hays · 16 Comments
Dear Editors of The New Yorker, I am writing to express my alarm that this is now the second issue in a row in which women have only two bylines in the Table of Contents of your print issue. The ...Read More
Canadian Ads Shift Blame to the Real Perps: Rapists
November 30, 2010 by Kathleen Richter · 15 Comments
It’s a basic legal principle in Canada and the U.S.: Women who are severely intoxicated are not capable of giving consent, and taking advantage of their mostly-or-completely-unconscious state ...Read More
An Open Letter to Wired Magazine
November 12, 2010 by Cindy Royal · 11 Comments
Dear Wired: I feel like I’m in an abusive relationship with you. I love you. You’re charming, attractive and smart, everything I could ever want in a magazine. My heart skips a beat when I see ...Read More
Jill Johnston Taught Me to Be a Lesbian
October 11, 2010 by Michele Kort · 5 Comments
Jill Johnston was the boldest lesbian of her time. I religiously read her Village Voice columns in the 1970s and ’80s, and her classic book Lesbian Nation was probably the first I ever saw with ...Read More
Yoga’s Feminist Awakening
September 8, 2010 by Monica Shores · 26 Comments
The online yoga community is still feeling the aftershocks of a recent debate about the use of women’s bodies in asana-related advertising, and the conversation is far from finished. It all started ...Read More
True Blood Cast Gets Sexy And Bloody–Remind You of Anything?
August 19, 2010 by Stephanie Hallett · 25 Comments
My first thought on seeing this Rolling Stone cover, featuring cast members from the vampire TV show True Blood, was “I wonder if Anna Paquin had her period when they shot this?” Yeah, I went ...Read More
