Now more than ever, I value Hispanic Heritage Month as a time to reflect on my family’s personal story but also to acknowledge the stories of the entire community.
Although we may always question whether or not we will be reprimanded for publishing a certain story, female journalists must continue to make ourselves and those around us aware of the issues self-censorship creates in the long run.
Last week, the nonprofit organization Sandy Hook Promise released a graphic back-to-school PSA entitled “Back To School Essentials.”
In early September, the news broke that Adele Lim, a screenwriter for the 2018 movie Crazy Rich Asians, was no longer involved with writing the next two sequels in the franchise. Why? Lim reportedly learned that while her white, male co-writer was offered between $800,000 to $1 million for this work, she was offered significantly less — around $110,000.
I wasn't born a feminist. Like so many women, I had to learn how to be one — in fact, I'm still learning. If you’re also still learning, here’s a roundup of books that can help you along your journey.
15-year-old Tanyaradzwa “Tanya” Muzinda is a motocross champion. The Zimbabwean teenager began competing in the dangerous sport at five years old with the support of her father, a former biker himself.
Black Twitter is generally known as a space for responses to cultural events and light-hearted humor. But it is also a genuinely critical space for black intellectuals and influencers, providing them a unique platform to explore the nuances of black Americans' lived experiences.
Since the start of the MeToo movement, journalists have played a key role in holding perpetrators accountable for the sexual violence they allegedly committed. Unfortunately, instead of challenging society's instinct to protect powerful men, some reporters covering #MeToo have reproduced this bias.
As of August 1, the Netherlands has instituted a ban on burqas and niqabs in public places, including hospitals, educational facilities, police departments, public museums, and public transportation. This recent policy change stands in stark contrast to the common narrative of Dutch people as tolerant and progressive, and highlights just how pervasive populism and Islamophobia currently are in Europe.
The Helms Amendment and has caused damage to women all over the world by limiting U.S. funding for family planning all over the world.
I tried getting help numerous times, especially since my symptoms got worse over time. But none of the doctors I saw took me seriously.
Gen Z makes light of things like hypothetical WWIII drafts, climate change, and the forthcoming political apocalypse because dark humor is their response to being born into a world seemingly already on fire is to laugh at the flames.
Radhia Jerbi is a prominent Tunisian feminist and lawyer who has served as the president of the National Union of the Tunisian Woman (NUTW) since 2013. Jerbi is also a member of the Human Rights League, the Maghrebian Women’s Union for Peace and Development, and the women’s section of the Lawyers’ General Council. Jerbi recently talked to the FBomb about everything the NUTW has been doing to guarantee gender equality and a secure future for Tunisian girls and women.
In late July, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued the first policy statement regarding racism’s negative impact on children’s health. According to their statement, exposure to racism in a variety of settings — including but not limited to the home, school, and even while in the womb — can create stress.
The award is well deserved, given that the influence of Missy Elliott’s work — especially her creative vision for her music videos — transcends generations and is still evident in popular music today.
In the beginning of August, 18-year-old Khadijah Mellah from Peckham, Britain, became the first jockey in her country to compete while wearing a hijab. She also won the race, which was the Magnolia Cup at Goodwood — a charity event supporting the organization Wellbeing of Women.
My great-grandmother is just one example of an underrepresented, underappreciated woman who fought her own feminist fight not in a big, public way, but bravely in her daily life. They are the feminists we never hear about, but whose voices surely deserve to be heard and celebrated.
In the recently published book There’s No Crying in Newsrooms, award-winning journalism scholars Kristin Grady Gilger and Julia Wallace investigate how gender has shaped the experiences of female journalists.
As I've grown older, the author whose words I have most often remembered, that has rescued and offered solace to my friends and me is Toni Morrison.
On July 30, model Shanina Shaik revealed that Victoria's Secret canceled this year's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. The company has not confirmed Shaik's statements, but it seems canceling the event would be appropriate given the scandals the company has faced this year — not to mention decades of profiting off of the objectification and sexualization of women's bodies.
Each week, Houston-based activist Diamond Stylz and her rotating cast of co-hosts serve up candid conversations about topics ranging from gender reveal parties to the latest installment of the television show Pose from a black, trans, and feminist perspective.
Wry, humorous, and dark, Pity Boy captures the inner turmoil of being an LGBTQ+ adult trying to navigate relationships with family, friends, and partners; the songs on this album explore self-destructive habits, and self-doubt, that emerge from this exploration.
The dismissal of women who express “unfeminine” emotions as mentally ill not only frames what is actually women’s self-awareness as irrationality, but further reinforces the idea that rationality is itself a masculinized concept, one that wouldn’t have credence without the simultaneous denigration of women’s emotions.
There is a potential solution to climate change that is as unexpected as it is potentially effective: girls' education.