In an incredibly unsettling new trend, some TikTokers are using women’s deaths as the punchlines of jokes.
Chinese mythology and an exploration of Asian American coming-of-age collide in An Arrow To The Moon, the latest novel by bestselling young adult novelist Emily X.R. Pan.
Putin promotes traditional masculine tropes but fails to realize that performative masculinity is not a strength but a vulnerability.
Working hard enough to be ‘rewarded’ isn’t the path to equitable salaries
On March 9, the Mississippi House of Representatives killed a bill that would have allowed mothers to keep Medicaid coverage for a year after giving birth.
Her confirmation hearings showed an extraordinary contrast between Jackson’s worthiness and judicial temperament, and Republican senators’ tirades and temper tantrums.
The argument against single-use plastic products neglects to consider people with disabilities, for whom reusable products can be too difficult to navigate.
South Korean politics took a right-wing, anti-feminist turn during the presidential election in early March.
On March 8, while many celebrated International Women’s Day, Guatemala’s Congress approved the “Ley para la Protección de la Vida y la Familia” (Law for the Protection of Life and Family), which would punish abortion with up to 10 years in prison.
Child rape is increasing in Nepal, but many girls are dissuaded from reporting it.
There has been a lot of talk in the fight against climate change about focusing on reducing emissions in the most pollutive countries, like China, the United States, and India. But a new report says we’re concentrating on the wrong thing. We should, researchers say, be looking instead at the most pollutive people.
The confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson are drawing both ugly and inspiring memories for Latinos
Throughout Black Girls Unbossed, Adams introduces readers to eight young activists and leaders who have dedicated themselves to issues including literacy, preservation, and gun violence prevention.
Topolansky’s resignation is meaningful to many Uruguayans, especially Uruguayan women in politics, because Topolansky was a pioneer in this sphere in the country.
International Women’s Day marches mark how feminist movements have exploded across Mexico, as elsewhere in Latin America — a region with some of the highest rates of sexualized violence in the world.
Most networking now occurs online, which presents an incredible opportunity for Gen-Zers — and Gen-Z women in particular.
The high school drama just ended its second season, which was full of nudity, profanity, drug use, and debauchery.
Russia is at war with Ukraine, displacing millions of women and children, and the experience has brought my grandmother’s trauma to the fore in my own family.
We’ve been hearing for a number of years now about the disastrous melting of the polar ice caps. The warming oceans. But there is one part of the world that may affect the speed of climate change sooner than any of these other nightmarish issues, even while it is a place that still appears lush and relatively healthy: the Amazon rainforest.
Given this long history of being prevented from writing publicly at all, it’s unsurprising, though still disappointing, that women are still undervalued in the literary world.
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