Union Square was packed when I arrived at this weekend’s inaugural New York SlutWalk. The crowd was mostly women, mostly young and mostly white. Clothing styles ranged from topless to […]
Tag: Slutwalk
Black Feminist Reflections on a Small Town SlutWalk
This past Saturday, while thousands of SlutWalkers took to the streets of New York, I attended my local SlutWalk, 840 miles away in Carbondale, Ill. I went to the anti-rape […]
A 17-Year-Old Does SlutWalk
At the crack of dawn I sneak soundlessly into my mother’s bedroom. Luckily, it rained last night, so the sky is wet and dark and soporific, so I don’t wake […]
Pan Am: Will Women Take Flight?
Though I agree with Nancy Franklin of the New Yorker that you can’t judge a show by its pilot, I would counter that, in the case of Pan Am, there […]
Should Black Women Oppose the SlutWalk?
An Open Letter from Black Women to the SlutWalk, signed by a hefty list of black anti-violence activists, scholars and community leaders, has been stirring conversation online since it was […]
Don’t Ms.: Eve Ensler, JD Samson, Our Bodies, Ourselves and More!
Washington D.C.: Holly Kearl, author of Stop Street Harassment: Making Public Places Safe and Welcoming for Women and Mandy Van Deven, co-author of Hey, Shorty!: A Guide to Combating Sexual […]
Tavi Talks New Mag, SlutWalk and High School Politics
When we last spoke with Tavi Gevinson, uber-precocious 15-year-old fashion blogger and out feminist, she was talking about launching a reboot of feminist ’90s teen magazine Sassy (which shared offices […]
Don’t Ms.: Experimentations of a Teenage Feminist, Aung San Suu Kyi Biopic, and More!
It’s a great week for feminist submissions! Help a teenager gather photos of feminists from around the globe, or enter an essay contest about Ms. magazine covers. This week there’s […]
Don’t Ms.: Guerrilla Girls, SlutWalk Cocktail Party, The Women of 9/11 and So Much More!
This week, amidst a whirlwind of parties, performances and screenings, we also take a few sober moments to reflect on the legacy of 9/11. Know of more feminist events happening […]
South Africa’s Subversive SlutWalk
In 2008 hundreds of South African women donned their miniskirts and protested at the taxi rank where a young girl was brutally accosted by taxi drivers and hawkers for wearing […]