What does it mean to be a powerful woman? This is the question New York magazine’s Women and Power issue explores,…
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You know, there are times I actually feel sorry for Melania Trump. (Sorry, brain freeze.) But seriously, what must it…
On Wednesday, Oct. 10, some of the most visible female activists of our generation joined forces to give their thanks,…
In a Breakfast Club interview in July, very tall Pittsburgher Wiz Khalifa expressed dismay at the horror of men eating…
Most of us remember the brutality brought to life on screen in the 1993 Tina Turner biopic What’s Love Got to Do with It
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Hell hath no fury like Rose McGowan when she’s not the center of attention.
To say that Amandla Stenberg is one of the voices of her generation would be an understatement. At only 19, the star of…
If you’re active on social media, you may have been greeted with a very important anniversary this morning: the…
Editor’s Note: This post includes a graphic description of gang rape.
Please stop asking why women don’t report abuse—sexual or domestic.
Most of us think we know what domestic abuse looks like, but in 99 percent of intimate partner violence cases, the most…
At some point, we as women are going to have to stop being active participants in something that drags us down, keeps…
Time’s Up, the gender-equality initiative founded in the wake of the #MeToo movement, has selected former Women’s…
Last week was surely triggering and traumatic for victims of sexual violence as they watched Dr. Christine Blasey Ford…
There are a lot of reasons why a woman may not report when she has been sexually assaulted. It does not go without…
A year ago, a line in a piece from Saki Benibo—an assertion also articulated a year before in a tweet from Mela Machinko
As some of Hollywood’s finest assembled on Monday night to celebrate television’s biggest night, there was a fashion…