Were ending posting early today to prepare to launch the new and improved Feministing! Brittany Novotny, a trans woman, is running against Sally Kern, an ultra-conservative, anti-gay member of Oklaho...
Via Broadsheet comes incredibly disturbing news out of Uzbekistan. Human rights groups, victims, and health officials are accusing the government of sterilizing hundreds of Uzbek women without their ...
Itawamba County School District officials agreed yesterday to have a judgment entered against them in Constance McMillens case. The school district first cancelled prom rather than have Constance, a ...
Via the LA Times: Elena Kagan, President Obamas Supreme Court nominee, won approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee on a nearly party-line vote Tuesday, her next to last hurdle before gaining a l...
We are incredibly excited to say that the new and improved Feministing will launch tomorrow. Well have posts all day tomorrow explaining the new features (and community standards) of the site, with i...
Over the past few weeks, Ive been following the Lebron James story with great interest. For those who dont follow sports (or live under a rock), Lebron recently announced that he would be leaving the...
If you need some Tuesday morning truth, I highly encourage you to check out this brand new video for the Reflection Eternal track "Ballad of the Black Gold". The song is one of my favorites o...
Hey yall - were just a day away from our big redesign launch and were reviving our feminist events calendar. So if youre planning any feminist events in the coming months, please leave all of the inf...
In a huge win for womens health, a new study published today found that a gel applied by women before and after sex slashed the chance of acquiring the AIDS virus by 39% and the genital herpes virus ...
Jaclyn Friedman on how the media should treat the sexual assault allegations against Al Gore. A report from Catholics for Choice questions the effectiveness of faith-based organizations involved in H...
The new season of Degrassi, premiering today in the U.S. and Canada, will feature a transgender character. Adam, played by Jordan Todosey, will be a new character at Degrassi High this season, and hi...
I saw Despicable Me this weekend. I thought the movie was mostly fun and entertaining, though it felt like it was written by a focus group. Going in I was expecting the miscellaneous eastern European...
Stephanie Herold, who you may know as IAmDrTiller on Twitter or from Abortion Gang, has a great piece up at Campus Progress about the way young feminists online activism is ignored.
NPR ran a segment last week about the shacking of incarcerated women in labor - a shockingly common practice. You can listen to the piece below, and find out more about pregnant womens rights here. D...
If you havent seen Sarah Palins latest shrewd attempt to reach out to women...well, here it is. Transcript available at Shakesville. The language is taken from a recent speech Palin gave at the Susan...
Lets jump right on in, shall we? Congress has been at odds (surprise, surprise) over whether or not to extend benefits to unemployed workers. Democrats want to pass the extension while Republicans do...
Image via Fuck Yeah Bearded Ladies! Maureen Dowd on the Vatican: "If Roman Polanski were a priest, hed still be working here." (And, speaking of MoDo, heres a critique of her SATC2-style jaun...
Elaine Villasper is the Vice Chair of Education for GABRIELA USA, the North American chapter of the Filipino womens rights organization. Gabriela, an alliance of over 200 Philippines-based womens org...
Douchemodo responds to the responses to his horrendous post, and a great response to his response. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals made an important ruling this week that could set precedent to...
On Wednesday night, I had the distinct pleasure of hearing a lecture from one of the giants in the study of men and masculinity, Michael Kimmel. Kimmel, who you might remember from his Feministing Fi...
Hey yall - were going to be launching the new site in the middle of next week (yay!) and wanted to give you an important heads up. If you are already registered at Feministing, when you login to the ...
I generally wouldnt give more attention to the ridiculousness thats been created by tabloids around this, but considering the larger impact these sources have, its worth noting. During promotion for ...
Due to an anti-choice kerfuffle on Wednesday on whether Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plans (otherwise known as high risk pools) will include abortion coverage, President Obama seemed to quickly c...
If you need a random funny to get you through the last day of your work week and love Bryan Safi as much as I do, you need to see this; its a hilarious outtake where Safi tries (and fails) to make a ...
We apparently missed last weeks barbecue in Sweden: A feminist Swedish group protested the gender pay gap by burning 100,000 kronor ($13,000): The Feminist Initiative party says the money set ablaze ...
Despite consistent pressure by advocates and victims to change the Vaticans house rules on clerical sex abuse, their newly released revisions of the document doesnt seem to include any of their reque...
Dana Goldstein on how the pill may be free and what Obama needs to do to ensure this. Religious hospitals are under investigation for potentially denying women adequate care. The UK wont allow an Iro...
The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCVAP) just put out their annual report (pdf.) on violence against the LGBTQ community and the findings are scary. I took a look at the report myself...
A study was released by American University and the Centro de los Derechos del Migrante on Wednesday that documents experiences of Mexican women who have migrated to work as crab pickers in Maryland....
Tea Partiers are good at reminding us why resolutions such as the one passed by the NAACP on Tuesday condemning racist elements of the Tea Party are needed. A revisionist sense of history and a compl...
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