New proposed legislation from Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state in India, is being criticized by population and public health experts as not only unnecessary but discriminatory—particularly, against the state’s Muslim minority.
Afghan women-led resistance efforts are the key to preventing Taliban oppression.
Many people, myself included, decided to start using the menstrual cup because it’s better for the environment, our bodies, and our wallets than options like tampons and pads.
"Both actual linguistic changes and conversations about linguistic changes are part of the process through which norms and attitudes change.”
Thursday marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, which kicks off the 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence in a year in which women have taken to the streets to protest rising violence and lack of state protection.
comments (idare@womensmediacenter.com or #wmcIDARE) is creating a space for conversation about the impact of this iconic musical, adapted as a film in 1961. We begin with three leading Latina thinkers because the memory and experience of our community matter.
Hollywood would rather produce more “ethnic” stories and sell them back to us instead of facilitating reparative measures or narrative justice. Frances Negrón-Muntaner breaks it down.
From representation to façade: Grisel Acosta takes us through how West Side Story captivated, then angered her
Little space has been offered to the voices of the real Puerto Rican migrants West Side Story was attempting to characterize. Here, Blanca Vázquez talks about the effects of this decades-old production.
An initiative to digitize and reorganize the archives of The Afro American, the United States’ longest-running Black-owned newspaper, will give scholars, journalists, and the public new insights into history.
Doctors in Nigeria have gone on strike at least four times since the start of the pandemic over unpaid wages; its last ended on October 4, after 63 days. We have no way of measuring the consequences for women and children, who were unable to access medical care in that time.
Scientists call what is happening in poorly planned neighborhoods the “urban heat island effect.” The islands mainly affect people who live with less green space and fewer large bodies of water like lakes, both of which absorb heat and cool off residents
Huq’s new graphic novel — Piece By Piece: The Story of Nisrin’s Hijab, which will be released on November 16 by Amulet Books — tells the story of a 13-year-old girl in Oregon whose world is upended when she becomes a victim of a hate crime while wearing a traditional Bangladeshi outfit and headscarf.
An ensemble of young women is helping to revive Sufi music, a traditionally male bastion.
Over everything, we need to teach girls early to be kind to themselves and about positive body image as early as possible
Making women feel bad about their bodies and looks is good business for Facebook and Instagram, according to a former Facebook employee.
Growing up, Henley and her sister Zan received international attention as children because they were the only set of twins known to have survived being born with Crouzon syndrome, a rare condition that causes the facial bones to fuse prematurely.
Many people from developing countries did not make it to the U.K. because of inequality — the ubiquitous kind of inequality that leaves poor people behind when it comes to the climate crisis, health outcomes, and pretty much anything else you can think of.
This year, the Guttmacher Institute published a mid-year report that found this was “the worst legislative year ever for U.S. abortion rights,” with 90 restrictions enacted in the 2021 legislative session.
After the recent high-profile murders of Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa, there is a growing push in the U.K. to make misogyny a hate crime.
While Swift’s fight to own her intellectual property is setting a new standard for women in the music industry, the resurfacing of the “old” Taylor Swift also reminds us that there are still fundamental issues regarding women’s value in the entertainment industry.
Released earlier this week, We Light Up The Sky tells the stories of three Latinx teens from very different families who suddenly come together after a mysterious alien life form known as The Visitor begins causing a path of destruction through their neighborhood.
Biden has proposed $45 billion to replace lead water pipes throughout the country, a move that could begin to remedy decades of neglect of clean water in the U.S.
Having been criticized throughout my adolescence for using it, I’ve done my fair share of research about what the word “like” means.