Dialogue and Opinion

Alternative Means of Empowerment and Therapy: Cuddling and Domination

Alternative Means of Empowerment and Therapy: Cuddling and Domination

Tate, a professional cuddler and dominatrix, helps navigate through the world of highly misrepresented and societally stigmatized forms of arts…
The Silent Violence Against Menstruating Bodies

The Silent Violence Against Menstruating Bodies

Everyone knows about the natural processes menstruating bodies are cycling through, but expect “it” to remain invisible (especially cisgender men)…
Feminism 101: What is Islamophobia?

Feminism 101: What is Islamophobia?

These attitudes, along with inflammatory rhetoric, often lead to violence, apathy and scapegoating on the part of Western populations. This…
On Women and Wine

On Women and Wine

Wine as we know it embodies the construct of the feminine, traded in our cultural circles as the sensual, lighter…
Feminist Theorist Thursdays: Assata Shakur

Feminist Theorist Thursdays: Assata Shakur

A teacher, healer, freedom fighter, and aunt to hip hop legend Tupac, Assata Shakur has organized against the prison-industrial complex,…
Navigating Mother’s Day

Navigating Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day, by promoting the concept of an “ideal” family, mother, and mother-child relationship, excludes and alienates families that don’t…
Feminist Theorist Thursdays: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Feminist Theorist Thursdays: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Adichie, a Nigerian novelist, is one of the latest women to join the lineage of iconic feminist writers like Maya…
Menstruation Beyond PMS and Ibuprofen

Menstruation Beyond PMS and Ibuprofen

There are many aspects of menstruation that are continuosly misunderstood including the basic processes that constitute the menstrual cycle, who…
Feminism 101: What is TERF?

Feminism 101: What is TERF?

The reality is, gender exists on a spectrum -- not a binary. So people who identify as one extreme of…
Feminism 101: What is Postcolonial Feminism?

Feminism 101: What is Postcolonial Feminism?

Postcolonial feminism resists Euro-American feminists’ tendency to universalize the shape oppression takes for women in various sociopolitical and historical contexts.
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