Breaking the Cycle of Street Harassment
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 [...]
Feminism
The Effects of Title IX
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 [...]
The Global Gag Rule is Back and Bigger Than Ever
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 [...]
Donald Trump, Rape Culture, and Election Fatigue
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, [...]
Chess Pride and Prejudice: Why Multiculturalism Is the Only Honest Position
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 [...]
3 months later: Recent Developments in the Stanford Rape Case
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 [...]
The Burkini Ban
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, [...]
Game Criticism
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 [...]
Sexism in the Olympics
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 [...]
Apparently Necessary Comments About the Wage Gap and Sexism
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 [...]
