The United Nations passed a watered-down version of a resolution to end sexual violence in war on April 23 after bowing to pressure from the Trump administration to eliminate all references to sexual and reproductive health and protections for gay and transgender victims.
The Trump administration’s latest use of domestic politics to hold international rights hostage will cost women's lives.
Nipsey Hussle’s passing not only leaves a crater in hip-hop but also illuminates a far more pervasive dilemma within hip-hop as well: the endurance of misogyny as a cultural norm and the understanding that a rapper’s legacy and artistry is always considered more important than the treatment of women who surrounded him.
A groundbreaking poll finds that women of color voters have deep concerns about the state of the U.S. — and are determined to use their power for change.
In 2018, Fabiano Contarato became the first openly gay man to be elected to the Brazilian Senate. The 52-year-old senator, who represents the state of Espírito Santo, was elected in the midst of a shift in Brazil’s political climate toward extremist and fundamentalist views; the president elected in 2018, Jair Bolsonaro, has consistently made racist and homophobic remarks and has been called “Trump of the Tropics.”
In 2019, Uruguay will have presidential elections, and it’s more important than ever that organizations advocating for reproductive rights stick together and continue to keep fighting to educate their society and advocate for a continued cultural shift toward acceptance of women’s reproductive rights.
On February 12, Esquire announced the launch of a series of profiles of American adolescents. The first feature of the series, which also served as the magazine’s March cover story, focused on Ryan Morgan, a 17-year-old white Trump supporter from West Bend, Wisconsin. Controversy about the piece soon ensued.
Zimbabwean students, both male and female, are struggling to pay for higher education. In response, a number of female Zimbabwean university students have begun to engage in transactional sex to pay their tuition and otherwise survive.
South Korea’s Constitutional Court struck down a 66-year-old law that criminalized abortion in the nation on April 11. Women’s rights and pro-choice activists who have long campaigned to overturn the ban celebrated the decision.
Only a paltry number of women conflict photographers are in the field compared to men, which means that men are largely shaping our understanding of war.
A team of scholars is investigating why women's incarceration is increasing even as overall imprisonment rates have been declining.
In 2019, of the 895 spots Stuyvesant High School gave to the incoming eighth-grade class, only seven were extended to black students. The year before, only 10 black students were given spots, and the class of 2021 included only 13.
The 30-year rule of Sudan’s president Omar Hassan al-Bashir was ended on Thursday when the military announced it had finally unseated their leader, who governed with an iron fist and is wanted on charges of genocide.
Men comprise the majority of the debaters who compete in American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) events. The majority of the APDA debate teams’ leadership, as well as the members of the national organization’s executive board, are also men.
At 22 years old, standing at 5 feet, 7 inches and weighing 164 pounds, this year Harris became one of the only women to ever earn a scholarship to play college football.
Without passing any major anti-choice legislation, the Trump administration has managed to curtail access to reproductive health care by radically altering federal policies.
Womxn in Yucatan, Mexico, fight misogyny, homophobia, classism, and racism on a daily basis. Some womxn in the state are fighting back through the arts. One such community doing so is the Yucatecan ballroom scene.
Emerging feminist media platforms are helping South Asian people engage in, navigate, and mobilize feminist movements.
Recently, reports surfaced of an 11-year-old girl from a rural area in Argentina who got pregnant after being raped by her grandmother’s partner. Mariela Belski, Executive Director of Amnesty International Argentina, told the FBomb more about this case and how Argentinian girls and women are fighting for justice thanks to the Ni Una Menos (Not One [Woman] Less) movement.
Us not only imparts an eerie warning about the repercussions of idly living a life of privilege as people suffer beneath you, but takes the warning a step further by showing what can happen when the “outsiders” the privileged are so afraid of letting in, the people who have been pushed below and ignored, finally force their way in — and do so with a vengeance.
I recently launched the Instagram project @BeingDressCoded to create a space in which we don’t just observe individual stories about dress codes but can look for patterns and learn from a larger, collective story about sexism and sexual objectification.
It’s important for History.com to not only add more videos and audio that feature women who made a difference in history, but specifically to let these women use their own voices to tell their stories whenever possible.
The filmmakers hope that the documentary, a devastating portrayal of rape culture, will be used to fuel change.
The development in their case comes after a months-long saga in which the women, who said they fled to escape an abusive family and restrictive society, hid out in Hong Kong and stayed in various safe houses out of fear they could be intercepted and forced to return home.
Women now hold 102 seats in the House, the most ever. But thanks to Trump, 2018 was the political Year of the White Man.