Musician and activist Ani DiFranco was recently embroiled in controversy after she announced plans for a four-day feminist creativity camp, called the Righteous Retreat, to be held near her...
I was a little young to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer when it first hit our television screens back in 1997, although it finished up in 2003, when I was heading headlong into adolescence and...
On Sunday, Michelle Bachelet was voted in as President of Chile for her second term. Constitutional electoral requirements made it so that she had to leave her position following her initial...
TV comedy has a woman problem. The representation of women in comedy in general is depressingly low, and it’s especially obvious on television, where most of the faces people see on screen are not...
Could you eat on a budget of just $1.40 per meal? On 1 November, one in seven people living in the US woke up to a dramatically changed food budget, courtesy of the expiration of an aid extension in...
It is not news that the way celebrity culture treats young female celebrities (and older female celebrities, for that matter) is icky. There is the constant hounding of singers and models trying to...
Amongst the supernatural shows on television this season comes an interesting entry: Once Upon A Time in Wonderland, ABC’s spinoff of its hit Once Upon A Time. Unlike the original series, which...
The Miss America pageant may be a bizarre and largely outdated cultural ritual, but it still occupies an iconographic status in a nation obsessed with appearances and the objectification. Even young...
Krissi Biasiello, the Masterchef contender everyone loved to hate, has finally been booted from the Fox reality drama, walking away from the dream of $250,000 in prize money and her own...
Dear Big White Upper-Middle Class Cis Heterosexual Media: Let’s get this out of the way straight out of the gate: No one is buying that you’re shocked by the latest revelations about the sordid...
