It’s vital for young people to find characters that we identify with so that we can not only feel confident in our own identities, but also become more accepting of identities different than our own.
Disabled women seem to exist in a world where sexuality is either denied to us even when we enthusiastically call for it or bestowed upon us even when we vehemently don’t want it.
Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI), Indonesia’s state-owned railway company, announced on June 21 that it will now blacklist sexual harassers from using its services
Many Brazilian organizations know that diversity is good business and have been fighting for minorities’ employability for years.
Why didn’t I stop and take a break? Because no one else around me was.
Afghan-born Meena Asadi has had to upend her life several times to survive.
Our country is supposedly the “land of the free” and yet women’s choices about their reproductive health and autonomy are being forced by a government that is in turn influenced by certain religions.
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.
On June 1, Illinois officially repealed its Parental Notice of Abortion Act (PNA), which required the guardians of patients under 18 to be notified at least 48 hours before the patient received an abortion.
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?
Author Judy I. Lin had known for years that she wanted to one day create a fantasy story that drew from Chinese and Taiwanese mythology.
More than 216,000 women experience homelessness each night in the United States.
The worst part is that when the next school year comes around, I know more casualties and more pain and more headlines will arise, because our system allows virtually anyone to own a gun, and despite public sympathy and outrage for the unthinkable choices of the gunman and innocent lives of the students, nothing has changed.
While I am grateful that the legal system believed my account of what happened, I am still deeply hurt that the only punishment my perpetrator received was essentially a slap on the wrist rather than a jail sentence or other long-lasting consequence.
A girl could have the most attentive parents and teachers she could ask for and still suffer from ADHD unnoticed by them.
Regardless of the outcome of the appeal, the law has already had a positive effect.
The HPV vaccine will be added to the list of routine free immunizations given to girls in secondary school.
On April 11, the trial in a defamation lawsuit between actress Amber Heard and actor Johnny Depp began in Virginia.
Dspite widespread use among college students, the pill is not the symbol of freedom it was once assumed to be.