Tanya Gold writes for The Guardian: “The Standard’s Londoner’s Diary was like a sexist cocktail party, where my gender was a sort of complex and undiscussed disability, which I was expected to disguise unless it was to be deployed in the getting of a sto…
Chloe Angyal writes for The Nation: “In that post I posited that, disturbing though it is, the thinspiration community is simply an exaggeration of the culture in which it exists. A grotesque exaggeration, to be sure, but hardly surprising one in a cultu…
Jessica Valenti writes for The Nation: “Feminists put up with a lot: the mainstream media constantly announcing the movement’s death, mansplainers, stereotypes about Birkenstocks. The whole pervasive political and cultural sexism thing is no picnic, eith…
Andrew Welsh-Huggins writes for the Associated Press: “Police officers and investigators on Thursday were searching the high school attended by two football players who raped a 16-year-old girl after an alcohol-fueled party last summer, Ohio Attorney Gen…
Sandra Park writes for the ACLU’s Blog of Rights: “Last year in Norristown, Pa., Lakisha Briggs’ boyfriend physically assaulted her, and the police arrested him. But in a cruel turn of events, a police officer then told Ms. Briggs, ‘You are on three stri…
