Burn Frontex! Freedom for everyone!

This Tuesday June 30th, in the wake of a summit in Brussels during which European leaders debated the fates of thousands of migrants attempting to reach European soil, six activists from the feminist anti-capitalist collective LilithS travelled to the Warsaw headquarters of Frontex– the powerful meta-organization responsible for coordinating the defense of Fortress Europe– whereupon …

Rashida Jones On Being Sex-Positive But Still Challenging The Porn Industry

One of the many disturbing moments in “Hot Girls Wanted,” a new documentary produced by Rashida Jones, features young woman who, after filming a porn scene that she wasn’t comfortable with, says: “I was terrified, I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know if I could tell him no.” It’s this sense of a …

She is not a criminal. Tell Ireland to change its abortion law

She’s pregnant. Doctors say the foetus won’t survive. But Irish law says she has to carry the pregnancy to term. She was raped. Now she’s pregnant. And each day that the pregnancy continues reminds her of the horror she went through. Still, Irish law says she has to carry on. She needs an abortion, but …

All moms matter, but not all moms are treated equal

by Lewit Gemeda What kills 800 women a day? The Taliban? ISIS? No. The answer is childbirth. 800 women every day translates to 33 women per hour, 99% of which live in the developing world. For example, a woman in Sub-Saharan Africa faces a 1 in 40 chance of dying during childbirth, or dying due …

LEGO is slipping a feminist message into its newest line of characters

Women aren’t entering fields of science and math in large numbers, so LEGO is encouraging them on the minifig scale. The trend of men dominating STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, math) has been omnipresent in the US, but not for any biological reason, many experts say. Most girls just aren’t pushed in that direction. Now the …