We must recognize how companies and celebrities are influencing young people’s ideas of beauty norms, and identity.
The film industry’s new era of unfettered consolidation with tech companies is not good news for those who have been pushing for diversity and inclusion in Hollywood.
I choose to wear so much jewelry in order to actively and intentionally take up space, and to reject the history of colonial and patriarchal economies alike, where bodies were sites of regulation that the empire sought to sanitize.
Advocates are encouraging members of the public to weigh in during the public comment period for the proposed new rules.
It’s time we start giving young women the information they deserve so they can protect their futures, their health, and their lives.
Words of inspiration, resistance, encouragement, anger, and determination from a diverse group of women who are advocating and organizing for a better future.
To understand the evolution of this lingo, we must rewind to the 1940s.
Solidarity, coalition building, and multifaceted organizing are needed to confront the right wing’s overwhelming campaign against LGBTQ rights.
Even at diplomatic altitude, a woman leader may be introduced first as a woman and only second as a leader.
As Syria’s transitional government dismantles the Assad regime’s drug trade legacy, it must also remedy another crisis alongside it.
Stories of women for whom empowerment looks different than protest and more like knowledge, patience, and conviction, rarely appear in Western media headlines.
The film has been screening at embassies around the world to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the women’s strike, offering inspiration to feminists internationally.
Since 2023, 20 bills regarding menopause have been introduced in 13 states, after years of women’s health advocacy to combat stigma and misinformation and advocate for equitable treatment for women patients.
When Egyptian feminist group Speak Up announced a partnership with Pornhub—the world’s largest website for adult content—to rapidly identify and remove non-consensual content, it received immediate backlash. Are its efforts meeting the reality of sextortion in the country, or normalizing a platform that has often hosted non-consensual and illegal content?
Following the United Nations' High-Level Conference on the Situation of Rohingya Muslims and Other Minorities in Myanmar, international human rights lawyer Michelle Onello argues that no solution to the crisis is valid or viable without the meaningful, safe, and inclusive participation of Rohingya women.
Can women’s historic wins bolster efforts to meaningfully improve the lives of women, girls, and gender-expansive people?
Soraya Chemaly, the author of the new feminist manifesto All We Want is Everything, offers a thought-provoking perspective on feminist revolution.
While the United States has pledged to eliminate forced and child marriage by the year 2030, there are still 34 states where child marriage is still permitted.
The attacks are coming from all three branches of the federal government as well as state legislatures.
The federal Office for Civil Rights has closed offices, abandoned many Title IX complainants, and opened investigations that align with the current administration’s political priorities. Students in need of redress must turn to alternative routes to demand accountability.
On October 17, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty presents a call to action to end poverty and uproot the systems that create it.
The upcoming film "Kiss of the Spider Woman" is set in a prison during an era of state terrorism in Argentina. A survivor of that brutal military dictatorship reminds us that accountability is possible.
Harris’ memoir of the 2024 election shows how unfree she was both as vice president and as Democratic presidential nominee.
Laura Bates, author of The New Age of Sexism, says: “We are building a whole new world, but the inequalities and oppression of our current society are being baked into its very foundations.”
New tools are helping to fill a critical gap in information and education about sexual and reproductive health and rights.