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Leftist women in the UK refuse to accept Labour’s attempts to silence...
The backlash against women’s rights is relentless and comes in many forms. Only 20 years after all-women shortlists were first adopted by the UK Labour Party, in order to address the low numbers of...
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INTERVIEW: UK women are self-identifying as men to challenge proposed changes...
On Friday, March 16th, Amy Desir and Hannah Clarke attended a men-only swim session at the Dulwich Leisure Centre, wearing only trunks and pink swimming caps. This action was the third of many that...
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South Korean women rise up: An interview with Nayoung Kim
Nayoung Kim is a feminist activist and attorney from South Korea. Her activist journey began in the South Korean women’s movement. She went to the University of Michigan Law School to learn about...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Angela C. Wild of #GetTheLOut on Pride in London and Lesbian erasure
Mark that day in your lesbian herstory book. This is the day we rise! Enough of the misogyny of the transmovement. #lesbiannotqueer #getthelout #pride #pridelondon pic.twitter.com/XAUbt1eQ2t — Angela...
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INTERVIEW: The irrepressible Venice Allan on her fight against changes to the...
“There’s only one Venice Allan!” was the rousing chant during a meeting at the House of Commons — the home of British Democracy — about reforms to the Gender Recognition Act. Venice managed to...
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INTERVIEW: Renee Gerlich on the fight for women’s rights in New Zealand
Renee Gerlich Renee Gerlich is an independent writer and feminist activist based in Wellington, New Zealand. She was a researcher for the 2016 social history documentary The Heart of the Matter. Her...
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Radical feminism paves the way for a resurgent South Korean women’s movement
On October 6, the fifth molka rally was held in Seoul, near the Hyehwa subway station. Sixty thousand women took to the streets of the capital to protest police inaction over molka — the trend...
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Angela Marie MacDougall: Taking a stand & standing in her power
Angela Marie MacDougall is a long-time anti-violence worker, the Director of Vancouver’s Battered Women’s Support Services, and a Remarkable Women award winner in 2014. Jess: How did you get involved...
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Are we there yet?
This year, Vancouver Rape Relief commemorated International Women’s Day by screening Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette, a 2015 historical drama that follows a group of white Suffragettes in early 20th...
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Women: Seize power
Shirley Chisholm, Gloria Steinem, 1972 meeting of the National Women’s Political Caucus “We’re not in this for power,” he said. The man was a staffer at a multi-million member nonprofit organization,...
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Vancouver residents & women’s groups demand Mayor Gregor Robertson enforce...
Vancouver City Hall, June 14, 2016 (Photo: Irwin Oostindie) At 5:30 on Tuesday evening, just over 100 people gathered on the front steps of Vancouver City Hall to demand Mayor Gregor Robertson follow...
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#CocksNotGlocks — UT Austin students fight for dick-swinging rights
Jessica Jin, founder of “Cocks not Glocks,” at a protest in Austin, Texas, U.S. August 24, 2016. (Image: REUTERS/Jon Herskovitz) Thousands of students at the University of Texas, Austin carried giant...
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Black Wednesday: A feminism that centers ending male violence against women
Image: Lucia Perez Montero/Facebook The first regional strike to protest violence against women and girls took place on Wednesday in Latin America. An estimated 100,000 people took to the streets in...
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Women will rise: yesterday we grieved — today, we organize
Those who know me will attest to the fact that while I wear my emotions all over my body, I rarely speak directly from the heart. I think Lindy West is onto something when she points out in the New...
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Independent Women for Equality McGill call for a renewed commitment to end...
On December 6, 1989, a lone gunman walked into a class of engineering students at École Polytechnique, separated the men from the women, and killed 14 women. The event would eventually come to be...
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The Women’s March on Washington needs to name the problem
Getty Images The Women’s March on Washington released its official policy platform on Thursday, and numerous liberal American media outlets deemed it an unequivocally progressive one. Fusion went so...
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PODCAST: The Women’s March was a powerful feminist uprising — what comes next?
The Women’s March – Vancouver. (Photo: Jess Martin) On January 21st, three million people across the globe — a majority of whom were women — took to the streets. A response to the election of Donald...
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Critics couldn’t stomp out female unity at the Women’s March
Women’s March on Washington. (Photo: Melissa Finley) The biggest protest in U.S. history took place last weekend, and women made it happen. It was a massive demonstration of female political...
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Young feminists reflect on their experiences, critiques, and future hopes...
Samantha Grey at Vancouver’s Women’s March, January 21, 2016. The election of Donald Trump inspired the largest demonstration in U.S. history. Three million people in more than 500 American cities...
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Argentinian feminist collective calls for International Women’s Strike on...
A strike against violence against women in Buenos Aires, October 2016. (Image: Eitan Abramovich/AFP/Getty Images) The Argentinian feminist collective behind Black Wednesday back in October have called...
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