After the Great Patriotic War, when those Estonian artists who had been evacuated to the rear of the country and those who had survived the fascist occupation, united into homogeneous...
As the snap General Election approaches, many Brits are wondering what each political party can offer them and the country. For women, making up just over half of the population, there are...
If the “Great American songbook” is by now a cliché, and musicians making standards albums is even more so, then Diamanda Galas’s two new albums are a metaphorical tearing up—and...
They're here six days a week. The police are only here on Saturdays, so during the week they can do and say what they want. Anna Veglio-White, founder of Sister Supporter Ever since anti-abortion...
The radical socialist roots of International Women’s Day—which falls this year on Wednesday, March 8—have troublingly given way to a corporate-sponsored “holiday” that has its own...
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...
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...
Warsaw. Castle Square. October 3, 2016. This picture shows one of many protests that gathered that day in Poland and across the globe. #CzarnyProtest — meaning literally the Black...
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,”...
Some pregnant women, in the final weeks of their pregnancy, succumb to a strange phobia: They begin to worry that their pregnancy is permanent. It’s gone on so long. It’s been so grueling. It’s...
