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.
If women are going to seek abortion no matter the legal status of abortion in the country they live in, who will illegal abortion hurt the most? The answer can be found in examining how significant a role class plays in a woman’s decision to have an abortion.
Robin on abortion and the Supremes, women’s exclusion from HIV medical trials, Afghan schoolgirls, Irish divorce, and what snails can teach us about left-handedness. Guest: Lawyer Cara Robertson on her book, The Trial of Lizzie Borden: A True Story.
Pro-choice religious leaders are an increasingly visible component of the growing movement fighting back against extreme abortion bans.
The media monitoring organization GLAAD recently released the 2019 edition of their Studio Responsibility Index, an annual report that this year found that of 110 films released in 2018, 20 (or 18.2 percent) of them included LGBTQ characters, the second-highest percentage on record. None of these characters, however, were transgender or non-binary.
On April 9, 2019, Ivy Wangechi, a sixth-year medical student at Moi University in Kenya, was murdered. Like many stories of femicides that came before Wangechi’s, the media’s depiction of this murder was problematic.
Brazil has maintained its place as first among countries with the highest murder rate of trans and gender-diverse peoples. In a country that remains deeply conservative and religious, and under a president who has openly targeted the LGBTQ community to "rescue our values," Brazil's trans community especially is fighting to exist, freely, openly, and safely.
Robin on ”consensual rape,” Oreo’s, patriarchal reversals, Mary Daly, Deutsche Bank, forced childbirth, and McDonald’s. Guest: Leah Greenberg reveals Indivisible.com’s latest tactics, shifting from defensive to offensive, and her political analy
A bipartisan group of legislators reintroduced The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) last Tuesday, with the aim of closing the gap between existing protections for pregnant workers and discrimination that still persists against them
Why do women buy into anti-aging promises that seek to stop life’s most natural process? The answer lies within the ingrained ageist and gender stereotypes that are woven deep in society that negatively affect women’s self-perception, creating the belief that they need to buy these anti-aging products.
The new research, by Building Movement Project, finds systemic barriers to leadership roles at nonprofits and calls for organizations to address bias.
In Sri Lanka, as in many other nations, women’s periods are taboo. While families celebrate when a girl bleeds for the first time, as she is seen to have come of age, every month from then on patriarchal values are applied to this natural cycle of life.
Robin on Alabama v. abortion, how women and alcohol are viewed, death-in-childbirth rates, and soda straws. Guests: Judith Arcana, Cait Cortelyou, Caroline Hirsch discuss their film Ask for Jane on 70s feminists doing underground abortion referrals.
The six members of the Brazilian hip-hop group Quebrada Queer are young, black, queer, and from the impoverished outskirts of São Paulo — identities that are relatively rarely represented in Brazilian mainstream media, despite the fact that 54 percent of the country’s population is of African descent.
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