Believe it or not, I don't just watch the Real Housewives franchise for the drama. OK, maybe that's a large part of why I tune in, but I'm also a fan because of the feminist lessons I have learned ...
There’s a great joke about feminism in Mark Waters’ high-school comedy classic “Mean Girls,” smashed into a key dramatic exchange. Newbie Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan), deep in her first invite-only ...
With her new album, Beyoncé has become the embodiment of modern feminism for a generation that has been reluctant to claim the word. Forget the angry cries of sexism. Millennials have grown up ...
Women are often encouraged to find feminist mentors in our workplaces or professional organizations. Yet many of us find our first feminist mentors in our mothers; one reason being that we learn ...
“Alexis Pauline Gumbs pushes us out of our comfort zone and into the sea, where other species are moving and mothering in ways that can teach us how to survive. With her beautifully rendered ...
Suanny Garcia is a writer in Miami, FL. When I first told my father, who lives in Cuba, that I defined myself as a feminist, I could tell he really did have some serious doubts regarding my ...
The all-day event celebrates and honors Ms. Magazine, the seminal publication that has explored solutions and pathways toward gender justice across America for five decades. Attend keynote ...
Karen Gillian is nothing like her blue, increasingly-robotic character Nebula in the Guardians of the Galaxy films. Nebula's hostile, aggressive personality is galaxies away from the Scottish actor's ...
There’s a lot of history packed into the slightly faded color photograph that Lorraine Fontana, a self-described “socialist anti-racist lesbian feminist,” shared with LGBTQ Nation. Fontana snapped the ...
It was author and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston who wrote in the book Their Eyes Were Watching God, “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” The year 2020 may actually be both. When ...
Tina Fey's new musical doubles down on one of the best jokes of the classic teen film, emerging with a timely (and very funny) feminist lesson. Girl Talk is a weekly look at women in film — past, ...