Standing Up to a Street Harasser

How to deal with being told what to wear on the streets of Lahore

Today, as I was buying vegetables at night in Lahore, Pakistan, a man stepped into the shop, rapidly yelled something at me in English…

Laurie Penny: ‘Feminist politics requires a futurism

Laurie Penny debuts her sci-fi feminism at HAU and doesn’t crush rumours about moving to Berlin.

Laurie Penny has been in Germany this week, tweeting all the way. Book addict Penny particularly #liked the little…

And just because it is on Fox News doesn’t mean it is Fair and Balanced Reporting. I am about the furthest thing from a feminist on the planet. Scraping the bottom of my brainpan is an argument as to why women shouldn’t vote for Clinton. This has nothing to do with her being a woman or her victimhood status. It has to do with the facts. If you look…

Lessons from Powerful Women

What makes a woman powerful? The answer is simple — confidence, charisma, and character.

Confidence, what an ambiguous topic. After all, what defines confidence? How are women able to “lean in”? Women who lead ask for what they need and go for what they…

Thank you for shedding light on this issue. I’ve never been LDS, and this kind of thing makes me very, very thankful for that.

It’s not just a BYU problem, but it’s one that needs to be addressed there. Especially since the Title IX coordinator, of all people, bragged about practices that actively discourage rape victims…

The Attempts of Equality

The aspect of women in the military can be seen as an event of sexism, feminism, or just plain gender roles. As we can see, gender roles clearly exists in this day and age. It can be seen as an inequality against men, proving that men are still seen as the dominant gender in…