Try this exercise: What’s the last thing your mother said to you? If you can’t remember, you’ve got company: I failed that exercise myself. The power of a mother's voice is undeniable; it comes...
On April 23, I wrote to Sam Morril that I wanted to work with him to change the conversation about rape jokes. That conversation, I said, was stuck in a frustrating, repetitive pattern: “Feminists...
Christina Yang. Fierce, independent, strong, and long one of my favourite characters on Shonda Rhimes’ ongoing hit Grey’s Anatomy. Played by the fantastic Sandra Oh, Yang is the epitome of the...
I tried not to embarrass Sam Morril. To understand how hard this was, for me, I should start at the beginning. Which was: On April 15, I went to a comedy show. The opener was one Sam Morril. And his...
I tried not to embarrass Sam Morril. To understand how hard this was, for me, I should start at the beginning. Which was: On April 15, I went to a comedy show. The opener was one Sam Morril. And his...
This week one site spread like wildfire over the Australian parts of the internet - Unfortunately for notorious anti-gay group Australian Christian Lobby, not every website domain linked to their...
When I heard that two bombs had exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, my heart sank. Please, please don’t be an Arab-American. Please, please don’t be one of us. I know this isn’t...
Hieronymus Bosch is alive and well and living in Florida, bitches! He’s melding slobbering hunks of flesh into micro bikinis Brian Yuzna style. Two finger smiles, porn star tongues-this could be an...
A new report just released by firm Valenti Martin Media called #FemFuture: Online Revolution recently defined Online Feminism as a movement that centers on “ umor, pop culture, fashion, and the...
London 1999. In the shadow of the Millennium Dome, men with faces as rough as Bethnal Green tube station laugh and leer at the camera. These monsters in bow ties are grotesque; their mirth rains like...