“Skateboarding is usually considered to be a boy’s sport, but we were meeting so many girls and boys who were taking to skateboarding and really thriving at it."
A luscious, green canopy outlines Cauca, a mountainous municipality in southwestern Colombia. These biodiverse forests are under threat from the damaging impact of narcotrafficking, and so are the indigenous people defending them. For environmentalist and politician Sandra Liliana Peña Chocué, the price of defending this indigenous territory was her life.
Nedd’s debut novel, Don’t Hate the Player, which will be released on June 15 by Bloomsbury Kids, draws a lot of inspiration from Nedd’s years as a young gamer and general gaming enthusiast.
Overburdened and underpaid, India’s health workers, known as accredited social health activists (ASHAs) — all of whom are women — continue to work without sufficient PPE kits, facing harassment and stigma.
In this Q and A, the screenwriters reveal how the woeful sex education they experienced as teens in Texas fueled the plot of their new teen road-trip movie.
Netflix’s new documentary, Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal, offers a glimpse into how fraught the application process is.
The existence of racial disparities in health care treatment has been widely recognized for decades. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has reinforced how deadly this unequal medical treatment can be.
Ed and I became so close that sometimes I had a hard time distinguishing Ed from Sam. Eventually, he banished Samantha. He changed my life. He changed our life.
Now that we’re past the first 100 days, can Biden sustain his a blistering pace in his fight against climate change?
With aspirations as grand as mine, while identifying as a member of a deprecated community, I’m cognizant of the fact that I have to work twice as hard. But I’m willing to do so.
When Carly Manes first began working in reproductive health and started having conversations with clients about their needs, she immediately noticed something: many of them wished there were more resources for parents who wanted to explain what abortions were to their children.
Women who have been victimized by displacement also find themselves preyed upon in the IDP camps (by camp officials and other IDPs alike), no access to justice or protection.
Cultish provides readers with an explanation of not only how cults gain influence and but how seemingly any innocent person could fall prey to their power: the potency of words.
The bipartisan bill, part of the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization, would be the first to outlaw the distribution of private intimate visual depictions without consent.
Greta Thunberg quickly became a leading voice in contemporary climate activism, despite her young age and non-elite status. But even with her popularity and success, some argue that she has become both a hero and a villain.
'The Underground Railroad' meticulously displays one of history’s most shameful and violent eras without lingering in sadism.
According to the UN Secretariat Gender Parity Dashboard, while women compose nearly 57% of entry-level P-2 positions, they comprise only 38% of D-2 positions, the highest level of employment in the U.N.
“Because We Are Girls” follows the story of three sisters on their journey to heal from the long-buried trauma of childhood sexual abuse decades before.
The exhibit coincides with the #LanAsket (“I will not be silenced”) movement against gender-based violence and harassment.
We have entered into an arena where now more than ever before, our viewership is our currency and we must continue to shape the content that in turn shapes us.
I have seen article after article in feminist magazines about how the ’90s era of female vilification is over, yet we still see women like Carole Baskin bashed repeatedly in the media to this day.
I find myself thinking of girls worldwide who missed out on far more than she did thanks to the pandemic — especially the many girls who will never see their classrooms again.
Lola Velázquez-Aguilu answered the call to serve as a special prosecutor, while Zurizadai Balmakund-Santiago insisted on being a part of the team pursuing accountability for the murder of George Floyd
When Padma Thinles was 11 years old, he lived in a city called Leh, in the northern Indian territory of Ladakh, on the Western side of the Himalayas. Then, it was a small village with streams brimming with freshwater. Now, “forget the streams,” said Thinles, who is now 21 and still lives in the region.
Without systematic laws and labor protections to acknowledge and defend their rights, LGBTQ+ persons working in Sri Lanka's economic zones are left at the mercy of their employer's biases.