Sunday, October 15, 2017 will go down as a historic day, as California Governor, Jerry Brown, signed new legislation that will allow the residents of California to choose a gender other than male or female on official documents. The bill,…
The problems with radical feminism in the 21st century
BY: SYDNEY KEEFE CO-AUTHORED BY: JESSICA BEUKER Ahh Feminism; a word so powerful that the second it leaves a person’s lips it’s already commenced a fiery debate. The feminist movement dates back to the 19th century, yet still plays a…
Men’s mental health is facing a silent crisis
BY: NADIA ZAIDI Featured Illustration by Xulin Wang Men’s Mental Health Awareness Day was on June 13, 2017, and it served as a reminder that men, too, can suffer from anxiety, depression and a range of mental illnesses. The constructs…
Study finds that fathers treat daughters and sons very differently – even as toddlers
BY: NADIA ZAIDI It’s true that parental sensitivities must be tailored to each child – and apparently each gender, too. According to a new study published in the American Psychological Association’s journal Behavioral Neuroscience, fathers are more likely to cater to…
Menstrual leave might actually become a work policy
BY: NADIA ZAIDI Only a woman can understand the pains (and blessings) of menstruation. That’s a fact. You can’t understand something that you’ve never experienced. Periods are quite an enigma, and one of the biggest equity issues around the world.…
Forcing him to be the Ken to your Barbie is actually ruining his mental health
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Sexism is bad and it’s everywhere, we know this. We see it in beer commercials that somehow show more boobs than brew; we see it when women’s promiscuity is considered slutty, while mens’ is celebrated; we see…
I don’t need feminism because it no longer stands for equality
BY: REGAN MCNEILL I was surfing the Internet, just like you are probably doing right now, when I came across something I had never seen or heard of before. I had stumbled upon an anti-feminist Twitter page and at first…
Civil War is leaving the door open for the liberation of women in Syria
BY: AIDAN MACNAB Aylan Kurdi was the two-year-old boy whose corpse, photographed washed up on a Turkish beach, shook the world. Sympathy for his tragic end ignited the globe. Refugees had been asphyxiating in crates, drowning in the Mediterranean, starving…
Bastardilla is the female street artist making Colombia confront gender inequality
BY: LAURA ROJAS Colombia is often recognized for its vibrant art scene and culture, with big names such as painter Fernando Botero and Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez calling Colombia home. But aside from excelling in fine arts, Colombia’s…
This man cooked and served his genitals at a banquet to make a statement about gender equality.
BY: TJ MOREY Meet Mao Sugiyama, a 24-year old illustrator from Tokyo, Japan, who surgically removed his genitals and auctioned them off for people to munch on. Mao Sugiyama exploded on the twittersphere in 2012 when he tweeted “[Please retweet]…