by Andrea Simon GWN mentor Vani Kannan (left) and her mentee Cherish Smith. Photo credit: Meghan Hickey It began with a text message. While in school, 15-year-old Girls Write Now mentee, Cherish Smith, wrote to her mentor, Vani Kann...

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Hello BITCH media peeps. My name is Jessica Yee and I'm going to be guest-blogging here over the next month. I'm a self-described Indigenous hip-hop feminist reproductive justice freedom fighter. I'm a huge fan of BITCH and was ask...

A lot of us working/breathing/organizing in feminist/humanist/womanist communities were running from event to event last week during International Women's Day (IWD) week and for my first blog post here at BITCH, I thought I'd share ...

There’s an ad I spend a lot of time glaring at on my commute. It’s all around my city and it’s a masterful piece of misogyny on the part of bottled water company Pump Australia. I snapped a photo, so you can take part in the pain, t...

Suggested by Shaker Spryte: Do you like or dislike your name? If you dislike it, what would you change it to? Is there a story behind your name?I like my name, which is Greek for honey bee; it suits me. There's no real story behind...

...but his primary opponent, J.D. Hayworth, is sure giving it the old college try:[Hayworth] declared that he supports a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage—because to do otherwise could lead to a man marrying a horse."You ...

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President Obama announced last week the charities that will be receiving money from his Nobel Peace Prize Award. The full list is here, but it includes a Haiti relief organization, and a number of organizations focusing on access to...

Deeky: There is a "Women of Ninja Warrior" marathon on. Guess the dominant color in the promos.Liss: Pinkity-pink-pink!Deeky: You must be psychic!Liss: I have a psychic vagina!Deeky: LOL! That would make a good movie.Liss: Psychic ...

I’d heard of Angie Jackson, the Florida mother who’s been making the news rounds since she live-tweeted her abortion last month, but it wasn’t until I saw this Slate story on Jackson’s bizarre, evangelical fundamentalist upbringing ...

From Brazil: An ad campaign for Marilia Light dairy products. If you don't eat them, you make a bigger target for people wanting to shoot at you. Or something. [Click images to embiggen.][Images are of a fat female form and fat ma...

Apparently Rielle is unhappy with her GQ photo shoot. (I screamed for two hours, she told Barbara Walters. Video below.) I guess it was the wily photographer who got her to take her pants off and strike a come hither pose next to Ba...

University of Massachusetts professor Chris Bobel is the author of the soon to be released book New Blood: Third-Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation. In the second part of this two-part interview she unpacks periods and t...

Text reads: Why is Angelina turning Shiloh into a boy? -A boys haircut and clothes -Calls her 'John' -No girlie things. Is it harming the three year old? I know this magazine is basically a tabloid, and probably contains...

"I am as strong as a man. I am as smart as a man. I demand the absolute respect of a man. If you understand this, we will get along well."—Peggielene Bartels, a secretary at the Embassy of Ghana in Silver Spring, Maryland, also know...

This blogaround brought to you by Shaxco, makers of Iain's Styling Gel, for all your Rick Astley Lookalike Needs.Recommended Reading:Marcella: Carnival Against Sexual Violence 90Andy: RIP Robert CarterImani: Embracing Precious: The ...

And yes, I've seen it, so emails are unnecessary. As is the sharing of my opinion on this interview. The end....

You know how much we love pop culture here at Feministing. Ann has a thing for Dolly Parton and Lady Gaga, Courtney has been known to throw all-night dance parties and Jos dressed up as Taylor Swift for Halloween. Embarrassing...

This morning, Shaker koach forwarded me the link to this AP story about queer seniors who come out and/or transition later in life. It's a pretty good article, quite moving in places—even though, like many articles in the mainstrea...