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 , [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

WHEN NORTH CAROLINA WANTS TO REQUIRE TEENS TO GET NOTARIZED PARENTAL CONSENT BEFORE AN STD TEST

Ed. note: This is a guest post by Rebecca Trotzky-Sirr.  It is part of the Strong Families  Mama’s Day Our Way  celebration. You can read more posts in the series on the  Strong Families blog .  Strong Families  is a national initiative led by  Forward Together . Our goal is to change the way people think, act and talk about families. Rebecca’s bio is [...]

The officer in charge of the U.S. Air Force’s response to sexual assault was himself  arrested for sexually assaulting a woman  this weekend. “Knox and Arias aren’t just women accused of murder.  They’re minxes accused of murder. ” Brittney Griner on Jason Collins coming out and her hope “to be a light who inspires others.” Which 20 lipsticks contain the most lead? Sady Doyle asks comic Sam [...]

*Trigger warning* At the National Rifle Association convention this past weekend, vendor Zombie Industries was asked to remove a shooting  target that looks like President Obama . The company sells more than a dozen mannequins that “bleed” when shot, and as it states on its website, “to discriminate against Women by not having them represented in our product selection would [...]

Just when I thought couldn’t get any more outraged about abstinence-only education, Elizabeth Smart brings up another of its terrible side-effects. Speaking at forum on human trafficking recently, Smart, who was kidnapped when she was 14 and raped and held for nine months by her captor, explained that she could understand why a human trafficking victim may not [...]

Novelist Jamaica Kincaid offers some #realtalk in response to a question about the role of anger and humor in her writing in a recent interview at The American Reader .

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the way I do. But if they’re white, they [...]