After the decline of feminist bookstores, there's a new trend emerging: mobile, black-owned book operations.

"A particularly ridiculous proposition I received last week was from a company that sells loose leaf tea that supposedly 'enhances female intuition, self-reflection, and witchyness.'" By Sophia Richards.

John Carpenter’s horror classic is not about what you think it’s about. By Tracy Moore.

Instead of worrying about “manspreading” or subtle displays of sexism, feminists in the West need to focus on major problems affecting women in the world, like being shot going to school or female genital mutilation. Like many of you, I grew up reading about historical heroines of the suffragette movement. These were women who faced imprisonment, risked their lives, or even willingly gave their lives to bring attention to their plight. These were women who were on the outskirts of society. They were disrupting the status quo.

The term has become a central part of an important conversation about the division of household work. But the sociologist who coined it says it’s being used incorrectly. By Julie Beck, with Arlie Hochschild.

Women like bad boys. At least, that’s the story. And there’s lots of writing and anecdotal experience to back that up. Men frequently complain about being “friendzoned,” the idea being that men who are respectful toward their female interests get placed into the role of friend, rather than potential boyfriend. The “pickup artist” community has embraced this concept, teaching men how to behave in assertive, dominant ways that, allegedly, are more successful with women.

The gender split in newsrooms as reported by the American Society of News Editors, and how static it has remained since 1999...

Simply a must-read for participants in any feminist discussion. If you haven't read it, I can't encourage you strongly enough.

If we're genuinely committed to improving the circumstances of women, we need to get the facts straight

A Vancouver catering company that offers sushi served on women’s naked bodies is sparking controversy among feminists who call the practice disgusting and degrading, but a model is defending the service, describing it as an empowering and respectful art form.

Servers at restaurants are overwhelmingly women – and overwhelmingly sexually harassed by customers and colleagues

Feminist Frequency host, Anita Sarkeesian, canceled a talk at Utah State University because authorities would not ramp up security measures to prevent firearms amid threats of a mass shooting.

The GamerGate movement drew its last breath this morning (10/17/2014) as the progressive feminists got their message out to the mainstream liberal media, including the Washington Post, the New York...

Building community that inspires girls to discover their innate worth and purpose

This is what a feminist looks like.

America, its time you get used to some new officially mandated personal pronouns in addition to quaint old he and she.

1500 men lock arms to defend the building and the female parishioners, are assaulted and degraded for hours. In Spanish, contains frontal nudity, violence, (spanish) language and etc.

An Ohio eighth grader says that the word “feminist” was photoshopped out of her class picture after the school said the word may be “offensive” to some people.

G. Willow Wilson Responds to The New Yorker's A-Force Porn Star Criticism - A-Force co-writer G. Willow Wilson responded to some harsh criticism from The Secret History of Wonder Woman author Jill Lepore.

Scene: You're a woman, sitting on a bench reading a book. Your male friend sees you on the quad and comes over to say hello and talk. You put down your book, lean back against the bench and smile. He doesn't sit next to you; instead, he puts his foot on the bench and leans over his knee. So sexist, right?

Trans or not, it's a hard question to answer.

Well, this is all a very brilliant way to show what it's all about. In 2013, Zerlina Maxwell ignited a firestorm of controversy when she strongly recommended we stop telling women how to not get raped.

I normally wouldn't post Alex Jones but this particular video seems to be spot on and backed up by legit facts and sources.

We interviewed Gender Is Over’s Marie McGwier and Nina Mashurova about fashion, the future of genderqueer youth, and what it’s like to be all over Miley Cyrus’s Instagram.

I look forward to taking up space in my own uniquely unsatisfying and uncomfortable fashion, because being a woman isn't about being consistently strong and courageous and infallible. It's about taking up space in our own mistake-riddled, inappropriate way.

One of Facebook's iconic logos just got an update. That tiny image that lingers in the corner of most Facebook pages — two small silhouettes of a man and a woman — it will be a little different on Facebook mobile pages starting this week. The old image featured the woman's silhouette behind the man's, with the woman's figure a bit smaller.

By their logic, crowdfunding for the cop who shot Michael Brown is fine, but a Kickstarter for a feminist coloring book is a travesty.

As one of the comic-book industry’s most successful writers, DeConnick, 44, has been credited with drawing female readers back to comic books. She is the writer of three popular comic-book series, all starring female characters: the Marvel imprint Captain Marvel, the western Pretty Deadly, and Bitch Planet, a cultural satire about an off-planet women’s prison. She writes passionately, both on and off the page...

"the ugly judgement of society" [from Facebook Nostril_Curl] (SFW but in the bath)

Leading women in the tech industry say the Reddit CEO’s resignation shows Silicon Valley still has a woman problem but some feel attitudes are changing fast

Hillary Clinton may have announced her candidacy via YouTube recently, but 143 years before her, another woman ran for president.

A deceptively edited video of a Planned Parenthood rep discussing the donation of fetal remains has the right in a tizzy.

“What is it?” they ask her wherever she goes. “Yes, what is it?” they say. “Does it have a Size or a shape, a form or a color. How will we know it?” they ask. “Do you know you’re doing it when you do it?” they demand. “What does it feel like to do it?” “Is there such a thing?” Some say yes, some say no, some don’t care.

The past few months have been an unusually vocal period for Hollywood actresses. In the wake of the Sony hacks, which revealed that some of the industry’s A-list actresses were often being paid much less than their male costars, and Patricia Arquette’s rousing Oscar speech decrying the wage gap, high-profile performers have continued to be outspoken about sexist practices endemic to the industry, using interview opportunities to share their own horror stories from their time in the field.