Last week, the nonprofit organization Sandy Hook Promise released a graphic back-to-school PSA entitled “Back To School Essentials.”
Radhia Jerbi is a prominent Tunisian feminist and lawyer who has served as the president of the National Union of the Tunisian Woman (NUTW) since 2013. Jerbi is also a member of the Human Rights League, the Maghrebian Women’s Union for Peace and Development, and the women’s section of the Lawyers’ General Council. Jerbi recently talked to the FBomb about everything the NUTW has been doing to guarantee gender equality and a secure future for Tunisian girls and women.
Despite being a majority of ballet audience and donors, women are being denied opportunities in the field.
The most critical voices among those pushing back against this recent onslaught of anti-choice legislation and rhetoric are those of people who have been pregnant or had abortions themselves.
As I watched the mainstream media cover this day this year, I noticed that hardly any mentioned the female leaders of a famous 1990 protest.
Lockey is part of Open Bionics’ arms project, which employs cutting-edge 3D printing technology to make bionic arms.
I found that story after story included images of survivors of sexual violence that were gory and denigrating. They often depicted survivors in shredded clothes, fear-stricken eyes, and arms outstretched in appeal.
Nigerian teenage activists Kudirat Abiola, 15, Temitayo Asuni, 15, and Susan Ubogu, 16, created It’s Never Your Fault, a nonprofit organization that takes a stand against child marriage, which is legally allowed to continue due to a loophole in the country’s constitution.
On June 4, the House Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing on “Threats to Reproductive Rights in America.” 18-year-old Youth Testify leader HK Gray testified at the hearing about the barriers she faced when seeking an abortion in Texas as a minor, including needing a judicial bypass to obtain an abortion.
Before Stonewall, lesbians were all but invisible in media. Fifty years of activism and advocacy have made a remarkable impact.
Pro-choice religious leaders are an increasingly visible component of the growing movement fighting back against extreme abortion bans.
The new research, by Building Movement Project, finds systemic barriers to leadership roles at nonprofits and calls for organizations to address bias.
On April 27, thousands of people gathered in central Jakarta for the 2019 Women's March, parading in solidarity to support women's right in the archipelago and across the globe.
Referred to as the “mother” or “grandmother” of French New Wave cinema, Varda was a pioneering director who influenced a new generation of filmmakers by making movies with feminist themes.
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.
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.
Without passing any major anti-choice legislation, the Trump administration has managed to curtail access to reproductive health care by radically altering federal policies.
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.
The filmmakers hope that the documentary, a devastating portrayal of rape culture, will be used to fuel change.
The culmination of over 70 scientists’ research, provides peer-reviewed evidence that feminist policies are extremely effective solutions to the mega-issue of climate change.
Populist nationalist political leaders have been increasingly rising to power in recent years all over the world — from Bolsonaro in Brazil to the success of the Vote Leave campaign in the UK to President Trump. Now a group of female leaders has banded together to warn the world about how this growing embrace of right-wing authoritarianism undermines women’s rights across the globe.
The ninth annual event showcased stories about women leaders as well as ordinary women who rise to meet the challenges in their own lives.
Teens around the world are protesting for action on climate change. Some of the most prominent young activists doing this work are those involved in the group Zero Hour, which was founded by 17-year-old Jamie Margolin in 2017.
After a narrow defeat in the Virginia legislature, the ERA campaign is heating up in several states.
Thousands of Albanian students are protesting on the streets right now. But even though the media has started to cover these protests generally, it has failed to note the feminist principles at the heart of them and how women in particular have contributed to the movement.