Cancel culture is the practice of ostracizing someone whose comments or actions transgress societal boundaries.
On June 20, a joint investigation from The Intercept Brazil and the website Portal Catarinas found that an 11-year-old (who has remained anonymous) had not only been denied an abortion after becoming pregnant as a result of rape but was also separated from her mother, who was vocal about terminating the pregnancy, and sent to foster care.
Even before Roe v. Wade was overturned, reproductive choice in the United States was reserved for those with the appropriate social and financial resources.
We're still referring to mixed-gender groups as “guys.”
“There is a big difference between things being fair and things being set right.”
For the first time in my young life, I feel well and truly hopeless.
The paradigm for women’s health and psychiatry is certainly shifting, but centuries of medical misogyny will require years of thoughtful effort to undo.
Why is that fan behavior practically normalized for a fandom that’s stereotypically male, when “fangirls,” who do little more than scream at the top of their lungs as they wait outside of concert venues, are widely considered crazy?
More than 216,000 women experience homelessness each night in the United States.
If our abortion rights are taken away, who knows what other rights will be taken next?
According to a leaked initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Alito, the Supreme Court has voted to strike down Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that protects a pregnant person's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction.
Treating sex as taboo isn’t helping anyone.
Intersectionality is more than an equity-promoting framework — it’s an accuracy-promoting framework, and scholars from all fields must gain greater understandings of methodology that embraces intersectionality.
Most networking now occurs online, which presents an incredible opportunity for Gen-Zers — and Gen-Z women in particular.
"Both actual linguistic changes and conversations about linguistic changes are part of the process through which norms and attitudes change.”
The only positive aspect of these events is that an issue that had previously been little debated now has national visibility and is being taken seriously by many politicians.
Papillon’s debut novel, An Ordinary Wonder tells the story of a pair of twins named Otolorin and Wuraola as they come of age. But Oto has a deeply held secret — she was born intersex and has always been told she must never tell anyone the truth about her identity.
At 9 years old, I should not have been concerned with whittling down the space I took up just so I could blend in with the beige expectations of my classmates. But external and internal pressures had succeeded in convincing me otherwise.
Not only can the inability to bear children have a profound impact on Indian women’s identities — childless women’s very femininity is questioned — but it can also threaten their relationships, particularly their marriages.
If being told to cover up their bodies makes girls feel bad, why do we tell them that?
North Carolina’s Governor Roy Cooper signed Senate Bill 35, which increases the minimum age for marriage from 14 to 16 years old (under certain circumstances), into law on August 26.
“There’s been a lot of discussion about unlikeable female characters in general and I personally wanted to give [creating one] a shot because I think unlikable characters are more realistic.”
When Nneka M. Okona began working on the manuscript that would become her new book, Self-Care for Grief, she knew she wished to create a guide for readers to center their needs wherever they were in the grieving process.
Child care has been an issue in this country for years.
Learning how to drive is already a daunting task, but it can become even more so when you learn about how cars’ safety is determined