As far as I can remember, I’ve always considered myself a feminist.  It was simple—anyone who strove for equal rights for women was a feminist. But not many males, at least teenage males, would be qu...

A few days ago, I took a huge step in the self-confidence department. I was reading Jessica Valenti’s Full-Frontal Feminism (a particular favorite of mine) for the fifth time, and her chapter about wo...

Last year, I worked at an after-school day care center for kids in preschool-6th grade. Basically, after a long day at school, I hauled my ass to work where for 3 hours I was surrounded by a bunch of ...

Recently there has been talk in Canada about changing the national anthem to be gender-neutral. A week or so ago, Governor General Michaelle Jean asked the Conservative government to review the nation...

In Canada recently, there was a movement to officially change one of the lines in the anthem from "in all thy sons command" to something more gender-neutral. When I heard the news, I quietly applauded...

Rilo Kiley Rilo Kiley’s audiences have a strong tendency to fall in love on the spot. Perhaps it’s their beaming faces or laid-back, admirable West Coast attitudes. Or maybe it’s just their uncan...

High school is a magical place. Throw a bunch of horny teenagers who are trying to figure out who the hell they are into a building that looks more like an insane asylum circa 1960 than a place of edu...

I’ve had a theory brewing in my head recently: if all the women in the United States were a size 2 yet as a society we still struggled with heart disease, diabetes and certain cancers then the “health...

As I was reading this post on "Abortion Doulas" I got to thinking about being pro-choice, abortion in general and about abortion in India in particular (as this is where I live). Out here, we tend to ...

It's kind of hard to convince American teenagers that we still need feminism. "But my mom works," many a peer of mine has stated in response to finding out that I identify with the f word. "She even k...