It’s freezing this week in the United States. And not just in the normally winter-frigid Northeast or Midwest. In southern states like Texas and Oklahoma, it has been in the 20s or lower.
These films encapsulated the power of #MeToo before our culture had the language and collective power to name that movement.
‘Broken: Seeking Justice’ and ‘Canary’ show how journalists cover sexual assault — and podcasts’ potential for rebuilding trust.
As a 16-year-old, I’ve grown numb to acts of extremism in my country, and I’m hardly the only teenager to feel this way.
Climate activists in the U.S. are pinching themselves over what the newly inaugurated Biden administration is doing to address the climate crisis. Who would have thought that our first “climate president” would be Joe Biden?
Racial and ethnic grifting is a settler-colonial tradition that’s as American as Dutch apple pie.
Apologists for cultural poseurs make plain the cleavages festering in our movements because of anti-blackness, internalized colonization, machismo and elitism.
The author, Wells’ great-granddaughter, aims to introduce the journalist, activist, and anti-lynching leader “to a younger generation and other people who might not be as familiar with her life.”
“I wanted to write about joy and about a girl who gets to fall in love, and gets to mess up and make mistakes and be a nuanced girl who isn't perfect."
Since The Bachelor and The Bachelorette started in 2002 and 2003 respectively, only three leads have not been white.
Bridgerton deftly handles race, in much the same way Lin Manuel Miranda’s game-changing masterpiece Hamilton did.
While President Biden’s memorandum provides a welcome change to the dangerous situation established by the Trump administration, it only partly restores the status quo of four years ago. The timing, presentation, and language of the actions indicate that abortion rights advocates will have to continue to fight to make abortion rights a bigger priority for the Biden administration.
Ahead of the Super Bowl, the new film offers a unique view of the devaluing of “women's work.”
Household hunger in Zimbabwe used to be confined to rural districts, but in 2019, as the economy faltered, hunger took root in cities as well. Enter the rural women baking collectives — and the environmentalists who oppose them.
Beneath the film's pastel coloring, neon signage, and pop music remixes lies a grim deconstruction of rape culture, and how those afflicted by it attempt to heal from it.
Argentina’s new abortion law, a result of decades of feminist organizing, is spurring hope for expanded rights elsewhere in the region.
Iran is on the verge of passing a landmark law that will take action to outlaw sexual violence against women.
Christina Li first got the idea for what would become her debut novel shortly after she graduated from high school.
The Women’s Media Center celebrates our Robin Morgan on her 80th birthday, with a photo album highlighting exceptional events, media appearances, podcasts, and writing for the Women’s Media Center.
In an extraordinary year in the film industry, more women of color directors have made an impact than ever before.
Former CNN and Washington Post reporter Masuma Ahuja compiled the stories of 30 girls from 27 countries around the world in a scrapbook-style book.
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