2017 certainly qualifies as the year of feminist resistance, punctuated with these memorable, quirky and provocative moments in pop culture.
Month: December 2017
A New Kind of Birth Story
Many women learn about parenthood philosophies so they can have the right parenting behaviors—but what hasn’t been encouraged is how to enter parenthood with the right emotional and psychological well-being.
Bookmarks: Feminist Reads for Winter
These six books will keep you busy—and inspired to keep fighting—as we start off 2018.
10 Women (and Girls!) Who Inspired Us in 2017
Women and girls this year stepped up, spoke out and kicked butt to demand our rights. In particular, these 10 inspired us to keep fighting.
These Girls Are Proof: Investing in Young Feminists Pays Off
Since 2011, 280 high school girls have participated in HERLead, an innovative program that empowers them to foster change in their communities. We caught up with three of them.
The Good-Guy Awards
Working Mother’s “100 Best Companies” is great for corporate PR. But for the mothers reading this list—those companies could do better.
Making Space for Girls
This year, four Pascua Yaqui Native American girls got the chance to be the first of their tribe to go Space Camp.
Can an Exiled Lesbian Exist?
More than half a century ago, Virginia Woolf wrote: “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.” I can now add: “As a lesbian, my country is nowhere in a controlled and prejudiced world, but elsewhere in a free and tolerant world.”
No Peace Without Women
The newly enacted Women, Peace and Security Act gives women reserved seating at the peace-talk table.
Pain and Prejudice
Women suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome remain undiagnosed and untreated, for a tangle of reasons with sexism at the core.