Check out Flip The News , a tumblr that flips the gender or race of the subjects in news articles. The site explains, “The point here is to shine some light on the way news organizations write about people and strive for more balanced, respectful narratives.” In one of the first posts, the author gender-flips this Atlantic article [...]

Eighteen-year-old  Kaitlyn Hunt was expelled from school and is being charged with a felony  for having a lesbian relationship with a fellow student. Another horrible rape documented on social media. (Trigger warning) Great piece by Tamara Winfrey Harris on Beyonce and feminism . The Virginia GOP nominee for AG previously introduced a bill that would have  required women who miscarry to report [...]

I love this brilliant reversal of all the Nice Guy whining about the how terrible the friend-zone is. It really gets to the heart of why I think complaints about the friend-zone are just so obnoxious. Even more than the sense of entitlement–that men are owed sex or a relationship for being “good guys”–it’s the idea that [...]

Yale is being fined for underreporting sexual assault cases. ” It was exhausting . Exhausting to figure out how to respond to the relentless misogyny from men who are otherwise kind and educated, who would never think of themselves as chauvinist assholes.” Lucy Liu discusses racism in Hollywood . A Michigan school district won’t let two pregnant high schools students [...]

WHEN YET ANOTHER MILITARY SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION OFFICER IS ARRESTED FOR VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

…and it looks like Rihanna is celebrating too! (Because she’s just the greatest.) I’ve previously shared my thoughts about the importance of masturbation –or, as I like call it, “the longest, most consistently satisfying sexual relationship of my life.” So I won’t bore you again with TMI details. Instead, I’ll just direct you to the awesome folks at the M Blog , [...]

Kelly Rowland’s new song references being in an abusive relationship.

House Republicans vote for the millionth time to repeal Obamacare.

I cried when I watched this trailer. Because it makes me cry to watch unapologetically fat, confident women being really good at their jobs, being recognised for it, and making their revolutionary bodies part of that success. It makes me cry like a big feminist baby. http://youtu.be/pg1RtDr-cHE Damn, Rebel Wilson, you make me (even) proud(er) [...]

Could it be because the people put in charge of preventing it are themselves committing acts of sexual violence? Last week it was the Air Force’s designated sexual violence prevention officer who was arrested for sexual violence . This week it’s the Army’s. From New York magazine: the Army has its own scandal as it investigates a sergeant who [...]

**Trigger warning** This is a guest post from an anonymous Feministing reader. You could say I’m a words person. Communications, in all forms, is what I’m good at, it’s what I gravitate towards. I’ll do the crossword puzzle over the Sudoku. Words to me are pieces to play with, tell stories with, pitch clients with. I’ve never [...]

Image via. I’m very proud that my home state of Minnesota is set to become the 12th state to legalize same-sex marriage  and the first Midwestern state to do so without a court order. Yesterday the senate passed the bill, and Gov. Dayton is set to sign into law today. This victory comes right on the heels of marriage equality victories in Rhode [...]

Kermit Gosnell was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder. We echo this statement from NARAL : “Justice was served to Kermit Gosnell today and he will pay the price for the atrocities he committed. We hope that the lessons of the trial do not fade with the verdict. Anti-choice politicians, and their unrelenting efforts to deny women access [...]

For fuck’s sake.  Brave‘s heroine Merida is getting a make-over before she’s officially inducted into the Disney Princess collection. The character’s creator Brenda Chapman, who became the first woman to win an Oscar for an animated feature for the film,  said Disney should be ashamed of the decision . “It’s horrible! Merida was created to break that mold — to [...]

I really love this piece by Jennifer Finney Boylan , who has spent six years parenting her children as a dad, followed by 12 years as a mom after her transition. I was especially moved by this section:

I understand the reluctance many people have to play down the importance of gender, or for that matter, biology, in parenting; a [...]

Media Matters has a series of depressing charts showing the (lack of) gender and racial diversity on cable news shows. They analyzed 13 evening cable news shows on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC during April, though I’d imagine this sad game could be played every month of the year. The charts that show the combined effects of [...]

When photographer Jamie Moore was thinking about marking her daughter Emma’s fifth birthday with a photo shoot, she wanted to get more creative than a set of princess photos. She explains :

It started me thinking about all the REAL women for my daughter to know about and look up too, REAL women who without ever meeting Emma [...]

The North Carolina Senate voted to give a second reading to a bill that requires schools to teach that abortion causes premature birth in subsequent pregnancies. The Obama Administration asked for an extension of the deadline to make Plan B available over the counter without an age restriction. The judge said no. California passes new protections for transgender [...]

That’s a pretty depressing number. Newspoll just released the finding, and the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation (AIEF) is using it as an opportunity to draw the connection between education and political leadership. Just 50% of Indigenous kids finish high school at the moment, and among kids in AIEF programs, which it calls “Australia’s most proven and [...]

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Ed. note: This is a guest post by Juliana Britto Schwartz. By day, Juliana is a student at University of California, Santa Cruz. By night, she is a Latina feminist blogger at  Julianabritto.com, where she writes about reproductive health justice, immigration, and feminist movements in Latin America. Human beings have been migrating for the entirety of our existence. It’s natural [...]