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…

The fact that this musical is still regarded as this timeless romantic love story is a problem.

Quite apparent from all promotional materials, “Charlie’s Angels” serves as a performance of feminist principles while lacking any and all depth.

In honor of “Glee”’s tenth anniversary, I reflected on what makes the show choir sensation the most Ryan Murphy-y of all of his shows.

If you were to watch an episode of "Game of Thrones" or "13 Reasons Why" you would never think that women getting off is important.

Where is the urgency to find more convenient and influential technological advances meant for deaf moviegoers? Obviously there is none.

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.

As UCLA celebrates its centennial year, radical and forward-thinking ideology needs to be put into practice now more than ever to protect students on campus.…

In the past two weeks, Georgia and Alabama passed two of the most dangerous and restrictive anti-abortion bills in the country.

To this day, neither Turkey nor the United States have recognized the Armenian Genocide. The wounds of survivors are still open. For over a century,…

President Rodrigo Duterte is notably regarded as one of the most infamous leaders of today regarding his offenses towards women, his drug-related extrajudicial killings, and…

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…

Biblical womanhood positions us as modern-day Atlases, holding the world on our backs.

Ultimately, I am not in the psych ward to find all the answers to my questions, and certainly not to work out a cohesive radical…

Kate Millett (1934-2017) was an American feminist theorist, activist, writer, educator and filmmaker. Her main areas of interest were mental health reform, human rights advocacy…

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…

Your family is in the audience. The audience adores you. You want to tell them that you love them but that's not your next line.

“Guayaba, not gwa-vah,” she reminds me. I let this word melt onto my tongue It feels as dense as caramel, overwhelmingly sweet, and full of…

How many times are we Goin’ to the chapel in the churchyard Mr. Kierkegaard?

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…