BY: KIRSTEN POWLEY We’ve all heard someone call letter-writing a lost art form and when you think about it, when was the last time you picked up a pen to write a personalized note to someone you know, apart from…
This innovative website is giving unknown female artists a voice
BY: QUENTIN STUCKEY Attitudes are improving in today’s society. Attitudes towards sexuality, race and gender are being challenged as a means to make the world as good a place as it possibly can be. But there is still a long way…
This U.K. insurance company wants separate driving lanes for female drivers
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Photos via PinkZones Women’s rights are currently a popular issue, especially just after millions marched through their respective cities as part of the protest, Women’s March on Washington, in support of equal rights. But we think one…
The CIA unsealed 12 million pages of documents and published them online
The CIA published 12 millions of pages of documents online. The thing is: those documents were classified. As their web page states: The automatic declassification provisions of Executive Order 13526 require the declassification of non-exempt historically valuable records 25-years-old or…
A look inside the brilliant new feminist magazine that’s empowering girls ages 5 to 10
BY: KRUPA JOSEPH “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams,” Eleanor Roosevelt once rightly said. The meaning is quite apparent – success is for those who dream of it. But the world that we…
Kenya’s karate grannies are badass warriors fighting off rapists (video)
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Rape and sexual assault are growing problems in Kenya. In 2009 alone, there were 40,000 reported cases, and the majority of cases still go unreported. In order to protect themselves a group of women have decided to…
Pope Francis doesn’t care if you breastfeed in church
Header Image: © Paterm Many would think the murals of Mother Mary breastfeeding Jesus, found in churches all over the world, would have long ago settled the debate on breastfeeding children in church and public areas in general. But, like many…
These Indian graphic novels feature inspirational, badass female leads
BY: KRUPA JOSEPH For years, in India, comics were cast aside as entertainment for the less educated. Then, in 1967, Amar Chitra Katha breathed life into Indian myths, legends, and history and transformed them into series of comics and changed…
These badass women made history in 2016 and you’ve probably never heard of them
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP 2016 was a year of progress in many different ways: we saw countries step up and make changes to battle climate change; we saw progress in the LGBT community from legalizing gay marriage in certain countries to…
Child marriage is still a big problem – even in the west
BY: AISHA ILYAD Each year, 15 Million girls are married before the age of 18. That is 28 every minute. One every two Seconds. As many as 7.84 million (65 per cent) of married children are female, reinforcing the fact…
I’d rather be childless than a mediocre mom
It doesn’t matter how far we’ve come when it comes to women’s rights and equality. We’re consistently regressing when it comes to views on femininity. A woman’s biological susceptibility to bear children makes those who chose voluntary childlessness considered, well,…
Cloth strips, corsets and nipple pasties – The radical evolution of the bra
BY: CHARLOTTE LEFAVE Everyone in the possession of a pair of mammaries understands the struggle of having to contain them with a socially-acceptable wire-based death trap. There are so many rules surrounding these things on our chests, we have to…
This is what it’s really like to be a sugar baby
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Sugar dating: In return for a “mutually beneficial arrangement” (fun, friendship, gifts, money, travel and possibly sex), a young woman, known as the Sugar Baby provides “the girlfriend experience” to a wealthy, generous older man, the Sugar…
Video exhibition portrays the dark side of 1950s domestic life
BY: QUENTIN STUCKEY Sarah Anne Johnson may or may not be a familiar name, but her striking brand of photography has left a mark on Canadian art and culture. A graduate of the University of Manitoba, Johnson’s diverse photographic exhibitions…
It’s time to stop making women undergo virginity testing for higher education
BY: AISHA ILYAD Being a virgin is apparently a condition for acceptance for girls looking to attend university in Egypt. Elhamy Agina, an Egyptian member of parliament, wants all Egyptian girls to undergo compulsory “virginity tests” prior to recieving admission…
Male birth control is abandoned after men complain about negative side effects that women face daily
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Birth control has always been a woman’s responsibility since its first ever approval as an oral contraceptive in the United States in 1960. Giving women the opportunity to control pregnancy was revolutionary, and has only grown in…
Educate yourself on a number of important issues by watching these powerful documentaries
So let’s be honest, no one has the time or the energy to become an expert on every controversial issue happening in our society. There’s LGBTQ rights, Black Lives Matter, feminism, abortion, drug use, and the list goes on. So,…
Poland rejects a restrictive abortion ban after thousands of women go on strike
BY: AISHA ILYAD “My body, my right.” This was the slogan of Polish Women who went on strike in protest against proposals for a total ban on abortion in their country. These anti-abortion protestors took to the streets of Warsaw on…
These female Japanese warriors are seriously badass
BY: CHARLOTTE LEFAVE The Onna-Bugeisha were women who knew how to kick ass and take names. Beautiful, powerful and terrifying, they stood heroes among men, commanding armies and striking fear in the hearts of anyone that dared to stand in…
This TED talk encourages bad feminism and you should too
By: Zoe Melnyk Somehow, along the way, society lost the meaning of what it really means to be a feminist. Just mentioning the word feminism will either send everyone into an uncomfortable silence or a lecture about “feminazis” hating on…