The February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School may be the tragic event that finally leads to the change this country needs to finally address gun control.
The new Marvel blockbuster imagines an Africana womanhood impervious to the effects of colonialism.
In a new report, a troubling pattern in which journalists paid little mind to ethics and consent when interviewing survivors of sexualized violence emerges.
The fight against injustice will always be long and often discouraging. The only way to persist is to choose a cause you feel that your life—and the lives of others—depends on, one you can speak to from (for lack of a better, less cheesy phrase) the heart.
After a highly regarded anthology of Irish poetry gave short shrift to women’s contributions, a group of poets took a stand for inclusion.
Especially during Black History Month, it’s important to not only consider, but prioritize, those who exist at the intersection of marginalized identities.
Finally, audiences — many for the first time ever — get to see a complex black superhero supported by a majority black cast, who thrive in positions of royalty and power based on their society’s technological advancement, in an Afrocentric environment.
When we got off the bus, everything changed. I felt my innocence leave me that day as I began to grasp what it meant to be a woman.
With a new editorial and hashtag, writer and feminist Mona Eltahawy stirred debate and inspired other victims of sexualized violence in religious spaces to come forward.
They are the hidden cost of Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war in the Philippines: single, teenage mothers whose partners have been killed by police or vigilantes. And without a job or government support, it’s near impossible for them to support their children.
Harper was an outspoken activist for decades on abolition, temperance, public education, voting rights, and women’s equality. Why isn't she a household name?
Formula One racing recently announced it would end decades of ceremonial tradition by abolishing “grid girls” — young “promotional models” who introduce the races and are sprayed with champagne by the winning driver.
In early January, H&M came under fire for an ad campaign that many people considered racist and this incident is hardly the first example of a company marketing racist products.
No matter how much the President of the United States may want to deny it, climate change is real.
As women used words like “menstruation” and “heavy flow” while describing the humiliating and degrading experience of having insufficient sanitary products in prison, the nine, all-male members of the Arizona legislature’s Committee on Military, Veterans and Regulatory Affairs bristled and shifted in their seats.
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