They marched in Nevis, too
Slacktivism, that most satisfying of portmanteaus that combines 'slacker' and 'activism', has typically been used to refer to the habit of 'liking' or sharing something on social media; it...
Category: Feminism
The Women’s March on Washington: A Lesson in Intersectional Failures
The night after the US election, retired lawyer Teresa Shook created a Facebook Event for a protest in Washington the day after Trump’s inauguration. The next morning, she woke up to find that...
Don’t make fatphobia your New Year’s resolution
It’s January, which means the TV is full of ads for low-calorie yoghurt and high-priced slimming clubs. Are you bloated? Have you overdone it during the holiday season? Well, these sugar...
Ohio’s six-week abortion ban is dangerous and immoral
In Ohio on Tuesday, the state legislature passed a bill that would ban abortions as soon as a foetus’s heartbeat is detectable. Given that this state of foetal growth tends to happen around the 6th...
Sady Doyle’s Trainwreck explores the women we love to hate
If you keep up with celebrity gossip or entertainment news, you’ve seen her: the “promising,” talented ingénue who just can’t stay away from drugs or alcohol, who “parties too much,”...
Every vote for Trump was a vote for rape culture
Some people say that being accused of sexual assault is just as bad as being assaulted. It’s just as damaging, with repercussions that extend into all areas of life. It can limit somebody, prevent...
How Polish women killed a restrictive abortion law
Polish lawmakers are said to have changed their minds about putting forward a proposal to severely limit its citizens’ right to an abortion, following massive demonstrations and strikes in protest....
200+ Prosecutions Under New UK ‘Revenge Porn’ Law
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has released a report into the prosecution of sexual and domestic violence last year in the UK. The Violence Against Women and Girls Crime Report 2015-16 provides...
The beach has always been a place to control women’s bodies
It has been hard to escape the recent controversy surrounding the prohibition of modest Muslim swimwear in areas of coastal France. The ‘burkini ban’ has been implemented in towns including...
Sarah Schulman’s Conflict is not Abuse is Essential Reading For Activist Communities
In her 18th book, writer and Distinguished Professor of English at CUNY Staten Island Sarah Schulman takes on the weighty topic of interpersonal conflict, abusive behavior, the “overstatement of...