Robin on Special Counsel Mueller’s July 17 testimony, permafrost, what being a journalist means, and knitters united against hate speech. Guest: Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D. WA), Memb. Judiciary Comm., on impeachment and her Medicare-for-All Bill.
According to the BBC, as of 2012, the 62nd year of F1, only five women had ever entered the Grand Prix, the last of whom had competed in the 1990s.
Five decades after that contentious moment in the fight for equality, it is still legal for employers to fire LGBTQ+ employees just because of their identity in most parts of this country. That may soon finally change.
Beyoncé’s choice to place Black womanhood at the center of her new Netflix documentary, Homecoming, is a powerful form of social resistance.
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.
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed a spending bill that includes the renewal of the Hyde Amendment. The amendment denies the use of Medicaid funds for abortion care with only limited exceptions.
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.
Robin on Iran, impeachment, endurance, Greenwich Village during Pride Month, the 60 percent, and the Robin fledgling in her garden. Guest: Dr. Sunita Puri on her book, “That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour.”
In late February, Judge Miller ruled the male-only selective service draft unconstitutional. Miller’s ruling was a declaratory judgment, which means it does not order the government how exactly to amend the draft to make it constitutional, but it is still significant.
Kathryn Kolbert, co-counsel in the landmark Planned Parenthood v. Casey Supreme Court case, gives her perspective on the current push to ban abortion — and what we can do about it.
The results of South Africa’s 2019 general election on May 8 were promising for champions of gender equality in politics, but
Decades after Guatemala's 36-year internal armed conflict, 36 Maya Achi women are seeking justice against the soldiers who raped them and the officials who gave them the orders.
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.
DuVernay’s artful depiction of Linda Fairstein — prosecutor and head of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s office at the time of the Central Park Five case — exposes the process through which white women’s pain can be used as a pawn for white patriarchy.
Special Edition! Robin and former 4-term Congresswoman and Watergate Committee member Elizabeth Holtzman talk bold new strategies for impeaching Donald Trump. Two former POTUS’s refute Trump’s claim that laws against foreign interference are “wrong.
The WNBA is ushering in its 23rd season, and, with it, huge changes
I’m hardly the only high school student stressed about navigating what could be crippling student loan debt. This debt has already reached $1.5 trillion and women, who make up the greatest population of student-debt owers, are particularly burdened by debt harsh effects on everyday life.
Before Stonewall, lesbians were all but invisible in media. Fifty years of activism and advocacy have made a remarkable impact.
It's tempting for Western audiences to believe that cell phones beget rape in Congo, but the real root causes of mass sexualized violence in the country require more nuance than that.
Now that season 3 has premiered (it came out on June 5), it’s worth asking: Is it fair to characterize these depictions of violence against women in season 2 as “torture porn” and dismiss watching this season or any future seasons, or did those depictions have value?
Who gets to tell stories of black trauma and how and when should they tell them?
The Trump administration issued another anti-choice policy on Wednesday, limiting federal funding for medical research that involves fetal tissue and canceling a multimillion-dollar contract for a lab that’s using the tissue to combat HIV/AIDS.
Robin on Canada’s declared femicide of Indigenous women, boycotting anti-abortion states, the 2020 census, and a reclaimed anniversary. Guest: Sarah Barnett, first woman president of AMC Entertainment Networks (AMC, BBC AMERICA, IFC and Sundance TV).
Film festivals are being held more accountable for not showing enough work by female directors. Here’s how some of the major festivals are doing since the 5050x2020 pledge.
As Congress deliberates ratifying the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2019, Women Under Siege spoke with Mihrigul Tursun, a Uighur refugee, about her experience at what she describes as an "ethnic cleansing camp" for Uighurs in China's Xinjiang region.
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