In the wake of the #MeToo movement—not to mention 50 years of feminist theory, legal intervention and activism—we have finally named the rapist, the workplace harasser, the serial jerk who ignores consent. And that leaves us with a few questions which we can never fully answer.
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A Feminist Guide to Horror Movies, Part 4
When the film industry finds an idea that works, they tend to use it again and again. And again. In the realm of horror, once a franchise has spawned seven […]
Groundbreaking Autoerotic Novel Returns to Print
Award-winning poet and author Marilyn June Coffey is republishing her groundbreaking novel Marcella, 40 years after it made literary history in 1973 as perhaps the first English work of fiction to […]
How Will YOU Celebrate Chick-Fil-A Day? (Maybe Flip the Bird at Dan Cathy?)
This week, you may have heard that Chick-Fil-A doesn’t like gay people. In fact, you may have heard that Chick-Fil-A dislikes gay people so much that they donate millions of dollars […]
This Group Opposes VAWA—Because It Helps Lesbians
Need another reason to support Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorization? Concerned Women for America (CWA) is against it. Yes, the same group that opposes abortion and most forms of […]
From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin: How Black Women Turn Grief Into Action
We cannot get the anguished face of Sybrina Fulton, the mother of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin–who was gunned down by a self-appointed neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla., in late […]
Perp Walk for the Pope?
By Bill Frogameni Barbara Blaine wants the pope to be accountable. In September, the indefatigable founder and president of the Survivor’s Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) teamed with […]
Behind the Koala Mask
The California Faculty Association, one of the biggest and most powerful faculty unions in the nation, recently passed a resolution [PDF] to condemn the aggressive distribution and hate speech in […]
In Honor of Domestic Violence Awareness, Dress Up for Halloween as Your Favorite Victim or Abuser!
In an ironic twist of fate, October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). Why ironic? Because October also plays host to Hall-O-We-Find-All-Injustices-Against-Women-Hilarious, as manifested in costumes like this. And this. […]
Writing Children’s Books While Black and Feminist
As an emerging young-adult author and activist blogger, I jumped at the opportunity to talk diversity in publishing with Jacqueline Woodson–one of the few queer, Black or feminist writers of […]