These three categories — sexual projets, sexual citizenship, and sexual geographies — comprise a radically new framework for thinking about sex.
In Mexico's northeastern state of Nuevo León, young feminists are creating their own safe spaces to share, bond and mobilize, and demand an end to the country's pervasive gender-based violence.
After a tumultuous two weeks in which abortion services were supposed to be operational yet remained inaccessible through Northern Ireland’s health service, the Department of Health said medical professionals were now permitted to "terminate pregnancies lawfully."
In a country not known for its empowerment of women—or for its health system—five teenage girls are tackling Afghanistan’s coronavirus outbreak head-on.
Low-paid women workers have been devastated by the displacement cause by the pandemic. Advocacy groups are rallying to help them.
As the economy continued to tank amid the coronavirus pandemic, job losses rose to more than 700,000 in the month of March—and women were disproportionately affected.
Young black children can perceive ourselves as unworthy, awful, and ugly. We see the racism in the world that sends these messages, and internalize it.
More must be done to ensure that the most intimate yet essential needs of women and young girls around the world are met during this crisis.
Even with a zillion variations of “lockdown” and other measures being taken around the world to contain the spread of coronavirus, Panama has managed to find its own unique way of doing things.
Argentina’s battle for abortion rights reached a new boiling point in March when the country’s president, Alberto Fernández, announced a bill to decriminalize abortion.
Advocates are sounding the alarm about the risks of the new coronavirus spreading inside correctional facilities.
A number of conservative U.S. governors are using coronavirus as an excuse to shut down all abortion services in their states, calling them “non-essential” procedures.
Johnson not only calculated the trajectory for America’s first space trip with astronaut Alan Shepard and the calculations for the first moon landing in 1969 but also overcame racism and sexism throughout her career.
We must acknowledge that sexism in U.S. politics poses a pernicious threat to restoring political and social justice.
In Australia, a government-supported initiative that provides “safe phones” to women stuck in violent homes is seeing a serious uptick in requests attributed to the virus, the Thomson Reuters Foundation reported Wednesday.
The question of who will participate in and who will be excluded from the future of work — in times of crisis and the rest — requires a thorough analysis.
These recent works by Black women historians challenge conventional narratives of the history of the United States.
Months after Turkish forces launched an offensive in the Rojava region, which some have likened to genocide, a rise in miscarriages sheds light on the unseen impacts of the occupation.
While necessary to combat the spread of COVID-19, sheltering in place has been shown to exacerbate domestic violence.
Stories about something that is “still” happening don’t get many eyeballs. But there is no way around what is still happening to Syrian women and girls as the conflict enters its 10th year, and the United Nations is sounding the alarm.
Advocates are expressing concern that less than four years after the court ruled that TRAP laws are unconstitutional, it has agreed to revisit the question.
Safe BAE reminded us of the need for change in society, as well as the value of being an advocate for that change.
While countries across the world celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8, dozens of women in Kyrgystan were detained for “violating public order” after coming under attack by masked men.
In the powerful new film "Never Rarely Sometimes Always," a teenager has to cross state lines to seek abortion care.
On February 28, The César Awards, which are essentially the French Oscars, awarded the Best Director honor to Roman Polanski — a man who fled the United States after pleading guilty to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977.