This post is part of the Theatre’s Rape Culture series. In the lead sentence of a 2009 article about the murders of hundreds of young women in the Mexican border city of Juárez, one Los Angeles Times reporter wrote: “The streets of Juarez are swallowing the young and pretty.” This dramatic lead, like much of [...]
While recent events in Arizona have raised the profile of discussions about immigration in the U.S., other Western nations have their own problematic policies and implementations thereof. The UK is a prime example. Even while small steps to improve the situation are taken, such as ending the practice of detaining children in centres such as [...]
Yesterday marked the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO). Founded by Fondation Émergence in Québec in 2003, IDAHO promotes the notion of an ideal world free from prejudices based on sexual orientation and gender identity. For the most part, events are organized by LGBT groups in individual countries. One particular event — the Great [...]
It’s getting difficult to bust a move these days without accidentally high-fiving a fellow Gleek (that’s a Glee geek for any of you weeks behind the rest of us). The FOX musical television show, which is eighteen episodes into its first season after taking a four-month intermission between episodes thirteen and fourteen, has garnered fans [...]
Over here at GAB, we’re excited about an upcoming conference called Women Deliver, which several of us will be attending and covering, from the feminist beat. It’s a big international women’s health and rights meeting planned for June 7-9 in Washington, DC, and that’s just a few weeks before the world’s G8/G20 Summits in Canada, [...]
Elaine Beale’s Another Life Altogether begins with a lie that, like so many of the other lies the protagonist, Jesse Bennett, tells throughout the novel, is meant to protect but ultimately only makes things worse. Jesse has a lot to hide from her sometimes cruel peers, especially when her family moves to the countryside from [...]
It’s unclear whether or not the Lady Gaga’s music video for “Telephone” is a feminist triumph, but one thing is for sure: feminists are watching it — and talking about it — a lot.
The video pushes visual and political boundaries. It’s filled with evocative images — Wonder Woman costumes, flat, white abs, mayonnaise and other [...]
I have written before about the unique struggles faced by transgender people in prison. Certainly, there are a variety of reasons why prisons in the United States and abroad are not safe spaces for trans people. However, slow progress is being made to change certain conditions. Last week, a federal judge in Wisconsin overturned a [...]
Last night marked the start of Passover, my favorite Jewish holiday. I love Passover because, at its core, it is a celebration of social justice. Commemorating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, the holiday is about freedom from oppression, in all forms. (It is no wonder, therefore, that non-Zionist Passover seders are becoming more [...]
Norrie May-Welby (who primarily goes only by Norrie) has just become the first person in New South Wales to be legally recognized as sexless.
From The Sydney Morning Herald:
This Mardi Gras, Norrie received a gift that no other androgynous person in NSW has had before.
The night before the parade, the postman brought a certificate [...]
