FEM Newsmagazine

In 1851, Sojourner Truth asked, “Ain’t I a woman?” Ever since race was conceptualized, Black women have wondered what makes them different from other women. Why is Black womanhood discredited? Why do Black women have…

While large corporations label themselves as “green,” people, communities, and ecosystems are suffering.

Heteronormative society ingrains the prejudice or dislike of people who are ‘different.’ Due to gender roles within heteronormativity, it is ‘natural’ to assume that if someone does not fit in one category, they must be…

Within the world of social media, the scrutiny we place on individuals' choices alienates people who aren’t able to be vegan, zero-waste, or adopt other inaccessible lifestyle changes. The people who are able to participate…

The stigma surrounding women in the music industry, particularly rap, is an indication of broader and extremely pervasive institutional sexism…While male rappers like Drake, Travis…

After a long day of work or school, the number one thing I want to do is escape from my reality. Why come home and…

In the era of fast fashion, shopping second-hand should be the more ethical and sustainable choice, but what happens when it isn’t?

So instead of just considering bands like Girl In Red the standard of lesbianism, let’s dismantle white-cisgendered based hegemonic notions of sapphism by expanding our…

This outsourcing of “the second shift” is not as benign or innocuous a process as “Maid” would have you believe.

I wish I could say that in the 15 years since “H2O” was released, the state of representation for Black dark skinned women in the…

Joe Biden may have won the election with a bright smile and promise to return to a cordial presidential past, but a return to tradition…

By understanding the origins of the gender binary as a tool of oppression, we can more clearly see the ways in which it not only…

These statistics prove that there is an epidemic of violence against Indigenous women that urgently needs to be addressed. Yet, little attention has been given…

Boba are the tapioca pearls that float at the bottom of sugary and milky teas. This beverage is sweet and popular, like boba liberalism: it…

While the Biden-Harris team has yet to usher in stimulus checks or effective vaccine rollout, they have fulfilled their pop culture promise with giving us…

With India’s interests shifting, defense budget increase, and history of minority oppression through massacre and genocide, it seems evident that India has started to prepare…

I knew that I could never be myself around a white girl because of the constant fear of offending one and being labelled as an…

Audre Lorde was a Black poet, feminist, and activist who wrote and spoke powerfully about race, gender, sexuality, and class.

As women now recounting the years of religious indoctrination that happened at the hands of religious education, we are now diving into the depths of…

The issue with the lack of empathy in individualistic societies is especially apparent now.

Particularly in academia, we are told that higher education is the only way to gain concrete understanding of a topic, but higher education is inaccessible…

Styles has received much attention and support from Western media in his expression of gender fluid style. In being the first man on the magazine’s…

Rumor has it I was the only person present at my birth.…

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“There’s plenty we’ve missed because the world began to end,” I say.…

All of a sudden, I was learning about hands on waists and…

If I have to listen to another person say “You’re so lucky…