FEM Newsmagazine

Himpathy is a term for the cultural backlash that sympathizes with powerful men accused of sexual assault.

By relegating the East to a submissive, homogenous caricature of otherness, Orientalism has served as a device for the West to preserve its role at the top of the global hierarchy, engendering imperialism and violent…

Design by Elizabeth Gomez The strict dichotomy of male and female may seem to be the natural way of organizing gender, as this is the system that most of us grew up with. We were…

Image by Emily Farag.  Pinkwashing is a term with multiple meanings, but most commonly refers to the deliberate appropriation of sexual liberation movements towards regressive political ends. The first use of “pinkwashing” is credited to Breast…

In almost all of the romantic comedies I’ve watched since childhood, the female protagonist’s friendships always took a backseat to the swoon-worthy love interest.

By having superheroes be depicted with highly unrealistic but conventionally attractive bodies, fatness is presented as antithetical to the very notion of heroism.

America is a motherfucka to Black women just as much as it is to Black men. Perhaps even more so seeing as Black women sit…

Netflix canceled “One Day at a Time” after three seasons, and that’s a problem.

Here’s a hypothetical: if you were given the task of crafting a movie centered around a myth from Latinx culture, what would you do? Would…

We can ask a new question: is “Captain Marvel” really all that intersectional?

In a city already rapt with criminalized homelessness, gentrification and excessive surveillance, Sacramento needs to do a better job in prosecuting officers for the murder…

As the conflict in Syria enters its eighth year, mental health experts make their way into the region in an attempt to assess a generation…

The people of Venezuela have long awaited an opportunity to elect a leader through fair, democratic elections to the Presidency of Venezuela. On January 23,…

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has introduced new reforms to the national education system that could have dangerous consequences for the future of the country.

It is unconstitutional and dangerous for Trump to declare a national emergency when no such one exists.

Shamila Batohi was appointed as the new head of South African National Prosecuting Authority on December 4 by President Cyril Ramaphosa. The experienced advocate, who…

I begin to fall into the marketing trap. Suddenly, I feel the need to consume these products that are being so heavily advertised to me.…

Technology, particularly social media, has not dismantled the constraints and tyrannies of identity so much as it has replaced their raw material.

As a community, we must start to inform the general public about the implications of Israeli apartheid and standing in solidarity with Palestinian-led movements for…

The Revolution Club, a communist organization in the school of Bob Avakian, uses the tactics of protest and disruption to advance its goal of radical…

Ecofeminism is a form of white feminism, which relies too heavily on a single axis of patriarchy and fails to view environmental issues through an…

Image from Wikimedia Commons. bell hooks is a Black feminist theorist, professor, and cultural critic who has authored over 30 books, in addition to dozens…

I’m entranced by these women successively rising from the molten earth, like a ghostly dance, ripening into the cracked chestnut in the foreground.

A word that brings comfort, an overwhelming sense of home.

When the misconception that ‘more choices will mean more freedom’ starts to develop in a culture, it ends up putting uneven burden on the woman’s…

How much bleach do you think we need to scrub the sky?

Revere my lamp; it can only communicate so much when it’s on, but I’ve wired it to suggest: I’m home.

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