Feminism
For far too many women across the world, enduring street harassment is a fact of life. From getting catcalled to groped to followed home, there’s a good chance that even if
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March 7, 2017 // 0 Comments
The National Football League (NFL) boasts almost 1,700 players and, unsurprisingly, every player is male. Some professional sports in the United States have a women’s
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February 7, 2017 // 0 Comments
Nearly 8 years ago, one of then-newly-inaugurated US president Barack Obama’s earliest executive orders reversed the global gag rule, a rule banning non-governmental
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January 31, 2017 // 1 Comment
I will really, really be glad for this election to be over. This week I had an editorial planned on “Gotcha!” moments and how they can undermine coalition-building,
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October 17, 2016 // 0 Comments
A female chess player has boycotted an Iranian tournament because she would be forced to comply with local laws regarding wearing head scarves. Nazi Paikidze-Barnes has
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October 13, 2016 // 0 Comments
Stanford rapist Brock Turner, who made headlines earlier this year when he was sentenced to a mere 6 months for 3 counts of sexual assault (all of which he was found guilty
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September 5, 2016 // 1 Comment
Critics of Islam have long touted Western values in the face of feminine oppression and outright misogyny. Of course, many of these criticisms are hypocritical at best,
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August 29, 2016 // 2 Comments
With the somewhat recent row about Dead or Alive Xtreme 3’s sexism and with anger at the comments about the reality that choices in video games are political in response to
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August 29, 2016 // 0 Comments
This Rio Olympics, one of the hottest topics on social media is shedding light on yet another form of sexism: namely, the manner in which female Olympians are described, in
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August 23, 2016 // 2 Comments
The wage gap is an issue that is now becoming a central political issue. Bernie Sanders made it an issue, as did Hillary Clinton. (And both campaigns were accused of
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August 23, 2016 // 0 Comments