College Feminisms
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Holiday Films: Does This Year's Crop Misrepresent Women?
By Soraya Chemaly The Holiday movie season is here! And, true to form, as revealed in USC’s Annenberg School’s most recent study of gender in the 100...
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Mitt Romney's Evolving Attitude Toward Women
By Amanda Winkler Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are speaking out about GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s attitude toward women, asserting...
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The Girls in The Band
The Girls in The Band, directed and produced by Judy Chaikin, Michael Greene, and Nancy Kissock, and edited by Edward Osei-Gyimah, literally screens in the...
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Writer/Activist Mona Eltahawy Arrested, Beaten, Sexually Assaulted By Police In Cairo
Mona Eltahawy — New York-based blogger, feminist activist, award-winning columnist and public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues — was arrested yesterday in Cairo. She’d...
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Young, Gay And Homeless: Fighting For Resources
A number of studies of homeless youth in big cities assert that somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of homeless youths identify as lesbian, gay,...
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Exclusive: Bachmann Reception on ‘Fallon’—Unfunny, Guys
Commentator Megan Carpentier offers five songs The Roots—famous for their satiric walk-on song picks on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon”—could have used to “snark” Michele...
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‘Half of women’ tell of emotional violence
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro Family violence experts are calling for national debates surrounding issues of emotional violence against women in New Zealand after a study found...
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Hecklers interrupt Obama at event in New Hampshire
Protesters reportedly with the Occupy Wall Street movement delayed the start of President Obama’s speech in Manchester, New Hampshire Tuesday, chanting over the president as...
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Supercommittee fallout: Lawmakers Trade Blame as Deficit Talks Crumble
Congressional leaders conceded Sunday that talks on a sweeping deficit agreement were near failure. Unfortunately, the stalemate between members of both parties won’t likely be...
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Police Burn Tents To Clear Cairo's Tahrir Square
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro As Egyptian civilians gathered around Tahrir Square to urge the military government to transfer power to a civilian government (an agreement made...
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"Is a Woman President ‘Macho’ Enough for Mexico?"
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro In less than nine months, Mexico will have the chance to vote for their first female president. Josefina Vazquez-Mota is competing for...
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Sexual Harassment is Rampant in NYC Public Schools
(Brooklyn, NY) November 17, 2011 — “There are so many cases of sexual harassment,” says Nadia, a former student at Brooklyn International High School. “It’s...
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Mixed Signals Spark Fear, Hope For Saudi Women
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia originally told Saudi women he intended to give them more rights in 2015 (to which Saudi feminists...
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Supreme Court To Decide Constitutionality Of Health Law
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear over five hours of arguments regarding the Health Care Reform Law. The lawsuit, brought by...
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Mass Evictions at “Occupy” Camps around the Country
From Denver, Oakland, to New York City, local police have stormed Occupy encampments carrying out eviction orders and arresting peaceful protesters. Given the number of...
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Paid-Leave Benefits Lagging For Working Moms In US
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro A Census Bureau analysis shows that women given time off for pregnancy, birth and child care has leveled off. Currently, about half...
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Here We Go Again!
The U.S. Supreme Court consented on Monday to hear oral argument on the 2010 health care overhaul law. A decision is expected to be handed...