“Telling people not to do as Sylvia Plath did is universally understood as a good-natured suggestion that a writer not put too much of herself into her creation- lest she accidentally write about something as ordinary as being a woman.”…
The case for all porn to be feminist porn
BY: BROOKLYN PINHEIRO If you’re a woman who’s ever had sex with a man and it ended when he came, without any further effort towards your orgasm, you have experienced sex in the same way as every women I’ve ever…
To combat post-election frustrations, artist turns letter-writing into a form of female empowerment
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…
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…
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…
Powerful photo series depicts the crimes that women face in every corner of the world
BY: KRUPA JOSEPH All photos by: Bhargavi Joshi For over 13 years, Indian-Canadian Bhargavi Joshi has been trying to tell stories about the things that she cares about through her photography. Photographs helps cut across languages and culture, allowing her…
Hundreds rally to demand justice for Berta Cáceres
BY: MARINELLA MATEJCIC On March 17, over 200 hundred feminists and human rights defenders rallied together in the streets of New York to demand justice for the murder of Berta Cáceres. The rally was held at 5:30 p.m. in front…
A feminist’s take on what’s wrong with feminism
BY: JESSICA BURDE I am a feminist. It is a label I embrace, and I’m proud of the achievements of the feminist movement. But I’m not blind to the flaws of feminism. From the earliest days of women’s suffrage, feminists…