New research finds the way women identify their past sexual experiences can shape their sexual functioning and overall health.
As I have gotten older, I have come to realize what a unique privilege it is to engage in outdoor activities that are often only available to affluent white people and, more specifically, wealthy white men.
In 2016, producer and director Shannon Cohn created Endo What?, a film that gives an accurate, up-to-date base of knowledge about endometriosis, straight from experts.
Often considered the “swing vote” on the Supreme Court, Justice Kennedy spent his 30-year career making arguably the most bipartisan decisions in the courtroom. Democrats and progressives had come to rely on him as a key figure in the fight to protect existing abortion rights at the federal level.
The Tour de France starts Saturday on the west coast island of Noirmoutier, but today about a dozen women gathered at the starting line to embark on their own 2000-mile journey.
A video of Brazilian supporters harassing a Russian woman during the Soccer World Cup shows the ugly side of machismo.
In around 700 demonstrations across the country, people took to the streets on Saturday, June 30 to protest against President Trump's zero-tolerance immigration policy that separates immigrant children from their families. Below are photos taken by photojournalist Jenny Warburg during the Families Belong Together March in Washington, where an estimated 35,000 people gathered.
Denmark has passed a series of laws that that subjects certain families—namely, those who live in the heavily Muslim neighborhoods the government has classified as “ghettos”—to new rules and restrictions intended to compel “assimilation” into Danish society.
The Tale is based on the real Jennifer Fox’s life, specifically focusing on the sexual abuse she endured as a child from her riding coach (Elizabeth Debicki) and her running coach (Jason Ritter). The film is an exploration of memories, and how these memories intersect with the truth.
Robin on the murder of journalists, the Supreme Court decisions, and Justice Kennedy's departure—with an extended Fighting Words on how to survive. Guest: Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States.
Russia's decriminalization of domestic violence in 2017 is just one example of the many ways the country's leadership undermines and endangers women.
India is the most dangerous country in the world for women, according to a nee survey of experts. The results come amid a worsening climate of sexual and communal violence in India, including the January rape and murder of an 8-year-old Muslim girl.
Our society has failed to recognize many manifestations of sexual violence as serious threats, engaging instead in a long history of blaming victims for their inability to extricate themselves from an unwanted sexual encounter.
Orrin Hatch’s Senate speech is the latest example of how conservatives appeal to our emotions to mask their longstanding political inaction.
Closure is one thing, but concocting an entire series based on the constant reminder — and, in the aforementioned case, physical destruction — of one’s past partner directly places this past relationship, and inherent to that, her past partner, as the cornerstone of Becca’s journey to find love is disempowering to Becca as a multidimensional person.
Robin on children, mothers, and borders; Trump under pressure; Sally Hemmings; and giant Sequoias. Guests: former prosecutor Jane Manning on Harvey Weinstein's trial; Daisy Khan on Muslim American women's leadership. Plus, Surrealism Corner.
In yet another example of the Trump administration’s callous treatment of women, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a decision last week that all but eliminates the possibility of asylum in the U.S. for victims of domestic violence.
Feminist writer Allison Yarrow seeks to answer that very question in her new book 90s Bitch. Yarrow talked to the FBomb about how and why this “bitchification occurred,” as well as its implications for current and future generations of feminists.
Unlike recent coverage at the border, the vast majority of immigration reporting excludes women's issues and voices, a new study finds.
An average of more than 2500 people were murdered per year between 2008 and 2011 in Juarez, and female residents of the city have particularly been the targets of femicide, or killing women because of their gender. Yet experts estimate that only one out of every four cases of murdered women in Juarez are even investigated by authorities, and criminal charges were only filed in 2 percent of those cases.
With Straight White Men, which opens next week, Lee will become first Asian American woman playwright on Broadway.
On June 4, right at the beginning of Pride Month, SCOTUS released their decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission: the court sided with the baker.
Robin on Jeff Sessions' immigration war against women, and on definitions of "culture," "tradition," and "private." Guests: Angela McQuillan on art intersecting with science; Leah Lax on escaping fundamentalist Hasidic Judaism. Surrealism Corner.
A leader in the campaign to repeal Ireland's abortion ban reflects on how the victory was won — and the implications for other countries.
Nigerian authorities have rescued 10 children allegedly being trafficked to Russia in what is believed to be an attempt to use the approaching World Cup as cover for the illegal activity.
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