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 is rape. […]
Author: Kathleen Richter
Feminists Joking About Feminism: A Chat with Vag Magazine’s Creators
Recently, I had the opportunity to interview the creators of Vag Magazine, a comedy web TV show about a group of feminists starting an anti-patriarchal magazine. Leila Cohan-Miccio and Caitlin […]
Meet the Blogger: Ebony Utley
Welcome to the Ms. Blog’s new weekly segment, “Meet the Blogger”. This week the subject is Ebony Utley, our expert on hip hop, relationships and race. She is an assistant professor […]
Which Pumps Won’t Health Insurance Cover?
Ran out of the adhesives to keep your dentures in place? No worries, the Internal Revenue Service will give you a tax break on new ones. Suffering from an attack […]
You Can Help Make Pregnancy Safer
Imagine earning less than $2 a day, then learning that you are not only HIV positive but pregnant. Imagine having lost seven children to starvation and learning that you are […]
Concluding Thoughts on Love Your Body Week
Today marks the last day of “Love Your Body Week,” and the blogosphere has been actively posting useful tips on how to love one’s own body even if it does […]
Vag Magazine: The Laugh’s on Feminist Journalists
The first episode of Vag Magazine, a six-part web series, has debuted online–and even though we’re in the line of comedic fire, we’re grinning, if not yet guffawing. The show […]
Newsflash: Transgender Discrimination Rampant in Health Care
According to a new report released by the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, transgender and gender non-comforming people face severe discrimination when […]
Dear Salon.com: Veganism Isn’t an Eating Disorder
While reading an article on Salon.com, I became distracted by a sidebar entitled, “Glee‘s mysteriously shrinking Rachel.” I enjoy reading criticisms of how awful Glee is as much as the […]
Job Searching in an Unfriendly Market: Try Nonprofits
Everybody knows it: This job market royally stinks. Supposedly there are jobs out there, but if you have any recent graduate friends (who have already been looking for a year) […]