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March 23, 2021 | Kadin Burnett | Gender-based violence
The Biden Administration Is Making Progress On Restoring Students’ Title IX Rights

On March 8, The Biden administration took an important step toward changing how schools will handle sexual assault, harassment, and misconduct cases.

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March 22, 2021 | Regiane Folter | Feminism, International
Latin American Women Experienced Backlash on International Women’s Day

On March 9, images from Mexico City showed how IWD protests turned violent between women and police officers

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March 15, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Arts and culture
Loan Le Celebrates Family, Food and First Love in ‘A Phở Love Story’

A Phở Love Story centers on two teens whose families own rival phở restaurants in the Little Saigon section of their hometown.

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March 12, 2021 | Sophie Hayssen | Education
Utah Opted Not to Teach Consent in Sex Education

Last month, Utah lawmakers struck down a bill that would have required consent to be taught in sex-education classes.

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March 04, 2021 | Sophie Hayssen | Online harassment
Wikipedia Takes On Harassment of Contributors

Earlier this month, Wikimedia, which runs the crowdsourced database Wikipedia, put into effect a global code of conduct aimed at lessening harassment for its underrepresented contributors.

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March 01, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Arts and culture
This Author Wrote a Book About an “Indigenous Nancy Drew”

Boulley, an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie tribe of Chippewa Indians, knew that she wanted to feature a teen girl who could be what she calls an “Indigenous Nancy Drew.”

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February 25, 2021 | Nicole Fallert | Feminism
Author Koa Beck discusses her new book White Feminism

Beck’s book reflects white feminism for what it really is: a strategy for gender equality that’s shaped by colonialism, imperialism, and white supremacy.

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February 22, 2021 | Regiane Folter | Feminism
The Movement to Make the Spanish and Portuguese Languages More Inclusive

The feminist and the LGTBQIA+ movements in Latin America have started to criticize how Spanish and Portuguese express so much systemic prejudice and misogyny and are proposing changes to make them more inclusive.

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February 22, 2021 | Ruby Hogue | Race/Ethnicity
The Difference Between Being White-Passing and White

White-passing or not, I only exist because my ancestors endured the unimaginable.

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February 17, 2021 | Olivia Sieler | Media
Celebrating Film Protagonists Who Pushed Back on Rape Culture Before #MeToo

These films encapsulated the power of #MeToo before our culture had the language and collective power to name that movement.

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February 16, 2021 | Celeste Huang-Menders | Politics
How Political Violence Has Become Normalized for Teen Girls in America

As a 16-year-old, I’ve grown numb to acts of extremism in my country, and I’m hardly the only teenager to feel this way.

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February 15, 2021 | Kristi Eaton | Feminism
This Project Aims to Involve More Young Women in Mapping
Everywhere She Maps is an effort launched in November 2020 that aims to address the underrepresentation of women in the geospatial field.
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February 10, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Arts and culture
A Teen Girl Learns To Love Herself And Her Community in Renée Watson’s 'Love Is a Revolution'

“I wanted to write about joy and about a girl who gets to fall in love, and gets to mess up and make mistakes and be a nuanced girl who isn't perfect."

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February 09, 2021 | Kadin Burnett | Media, Race/Ethnicity
Despite Casting Black Leads, The Bachelor Franchise Still Has A Race Problem

Since The Bachelor and The Bachelorette started in 2002 and 2003 respectively, only three leads have not been white.

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February 08, 2021 | Patricia Connor | Arts and culture
Like Hamilton, Bridgerton Normalizes Diversity in Unexpected Ways

Bridgerton deftly handles race, in much the same way Lin Manuel Miranda’s game-changing masterpiece Hamilton did.

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February 03, 2021 | Kadin Burnett | Media
How 'Promising Young Woman' Honestly Deconstructs Rape Culture

Beneath the film's pastel coloring, neon signage, and pop music remixes lies a grim deconstruction of rape culture, and how those afflicted by it attempt to heal from it.

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February 02, 2021 | Sophie Hayssen | Violence against women
Iran May Soon Outlaw Sexual Violence Against Women

Iran is on the verge of passing a landmark law that will take action to outlaw sexual violence against women.

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February 01, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Feminism
Stanford Student Christina Li Makes Her Literary Debut with “Clues to the Universe”

Christina Li first got the idea for what would become her debut novel shortly after she graduated from high school.

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January 27, 2021 | Kristi Eaton | Girls
30 Girls in 27 Countries Weigh In On Girlhood Today

Former CNN and Washington Post reporter Masuma Ahuja compiled the stories of 30 girls from 27 countries around the world in a scrapbook-style book.

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January 26, 2021 | Engie Mostafa |
Justice for Loujain Al-Hathloul

After being detained for three years, al-Hathloul finally had her first day in trial under Saudi Arabia’s Specialized Criminal Court on December 10, 2020.

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January 25, 2021 | Hailey Cheng | Feminism
How The Fetishization of Asian Women Leads to Violence

The ongoing sexual violence toward Asian women is undeniably linked to widespread, hypersexualized stereotypes that have stripped Asian women of their personhood and individuality.

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January 20, 2021 | Maria Milisa | Sports
Female Athletes Still Deserve Equal Pay

The lack of television coverage of female athletes creates an illusion that there is not a significant number of female athletes worthy of admiration — that they are failing — when in fact, there are many who are very successful.

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January 19, 2021 | Joy He | Science and tech
What Young Women Interested in STEM Need to Know

The stark differences between the number of women in my STEM classes in high school and in college have sobered me to the reality of pursuing STEM as a woman

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January 18, 2021 | Kylie Cheung | Politics
Ohio’s Fetal Burial Law is about Surveilling and Criminalizing Pregnant People

As we mark the 48th anniversary of Roe v. Wade this month, it’s crucial to recognize the landmark Supreme Court case was about more than abortion and bodily autonomy — it was also broadly about privacy and pregnancy.

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January 13, 2021 | Anonymous | Sports
The Treatment of Caster Semenya Proves Sexism Is Alive and Well in Sports

Semenya is banned from competing unless she artificially medically intervenes to modify her natural condition.


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