That’s how much money some working women are missing out on as a result of wage disparities among genders. According to the Huffington Post :

“The typical full-time working woman  stands to miss out on $443,360  over 40 years because of the gender wage gap, according to an April report from the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC). That means a [...]

The Loch Ness Monster, among other things that are not real. When I first heard about the Air Force’s top commander, Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, dismissing cases of sexual assault in the military as a result of “hookup mentality”, I was obviously upset for many of the same reasons that Katie expressed yesterday . Why are we [...]

Left: Elizabeth Colbert Busch (D). Right: Mark Sanford (R). (Credit: ABC News) Via. Because it’s not already hard enough to run for political office as a woman in this country, conservative groups in South Carolina are playing dirty politics leading up to the  congressional special election next week. According to ThinkProgress,  the group, identifying themselves only as “SSI polling”, are calling voters and [...]

When we talk about the criminalization of communities and people of color, especially African Americans and Latinos in America, we often talk about the criminal justice system in America that disproportionately targets those communities.Schools are often the major accomplices in making this system run with the school to prison pipeline. Nothing exemplifies this more than what is happening to 16 [...]

President Obama addressed Planned Parenthood’s national conference today. He reassured them that he stands with them in the fight to keep safe and affordable healthcare accessible.

 ”Planned Parenthood is not going anywhere. It’s not going anywhere today. it’s not going anywhere tomorrow.”

Which is a relief because I’m due for my annual! But anyway… He also [...]

  White male lawmakers in Florida’s are playing the race card about abortion, again, and their black female counterparts are not here for it. According to the Grio , as many as five black female representatives among a group of African-American lawmakers walked out of the Florida House in response to factually incorrect comments made by Republican Rep. Charles Van Zant [...]

An artsy and depressing campus rape culture bingo . Louis C.K. likes his feminism funny. “Men are the greatest cause of injury and mayhem to women.” Ohio worries about ” gateway sexual activity .” *rolls eyes* Meet Afghanistan’s female bicyclists . Why do so many YA heroines become beautiful as part of their transformation into a fully realized character? A Twitter convo about the lies [...]

I’ve finally stopped rolling my eyes hard enough to talk about Ray J and his new single ” I Hit It First .” This (terrible) track is basically three minutes and 20 seconds of shade thrown at Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, based on the well-known fact that Ray J was Kim’s partner in the infamous sex tape [...]

Which is good news because reproductive justice advocates in Arkansas have filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state’s new ban on abortions past 12 weeks. The AP reports :

“The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas and the Center for Reproductive Rights, which filed the suit on behalf of Dr. Louis Jerry Edwards and Dr. Tom Tvedten, [...]

http://youtu.be/ANaTQHQMVzc We love this animated video about street harassment. There is no grand liberal conspiracy to cover up the Kermit Gosnell story . The greatest tragedy is that conservatives ignored it for  over 2  years and fail to understand how their policies contribute to horrific conditions for poor women seeking abortions. This also needs to stop happening . This  little girl  is a  bawse. More  thoughts about [...]

So understand this– there’s no more talking to those who perpetuate or enable rape culture. There is only us talking to your money. — dream hampton (@dreamhampton) April 11, 2013

When we first broke the story about Reebok dropping Rick Ross I had mixed emotions.  I was excited that rape culture was being talked about and taken seriously. [...]

When I first heard that Tyrese was making fatphobic comments in an interview, I almost chuckled. I mean… just look at the kind of laughable ignorance he has spouted from his Twitter account: But even though Tyrese has excluded himself from the part of my brain that houses the fucks that I have to give, there was something [...]

Internationally, HIV affects transgender women more than any other group according to a meta-analysis published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases . 

“Almost a fifth of transgender women worldwide are infected with HIV, results of a meta-analysis published in  The Lancet Infectious Diseases  shows. A total of 39 studies involving over 11,000 transgender women in 15 different countries were included in the study, which [...]

Since I’ve been writing for Feministing, more people have come forward to talk to me about feminism. In fact, it has taken recent interactions with folks about my writing on this blog to realize exactly how many people have not even the slightest clue where to begin contextualizing when the word “feminism” is centered in [...]

A few days ago I had the, ahem, pleasure? of seeing the video of Miley Cyrus twerking . I was a little put off by it but couldn’t immediately identify why. There was the obvious discomfort at the fact that she wasn’t really good at twerking in the first place, but there was something else that I just [...]

Rick Ross recently came under fire for releasing a track that include him drugging a woman with molly and raping a her. Jamilah Lemieux at EBONY.com responded with this much needed piece about rape culture, silence, and accountability. With the exception of the fat shaming shade she’s throwing at Ross, this article is dead on and a [...]

I didn’t even have time to learn all the lyrics to Beyonce’s new song  “Bow Down”  before people started policing whether or not the track was anti-feminist. A friend sent me this piece from the Washington Post entitled ” Beyonce sabotages her female empowerment efforts with ‘Bow Down .’” I wish everyone reading this could see how hard I am rolling my [...]

I’ve had a particularly “uncomfortable” weekend. I won’t go into the specifics, but I’ve  been at the center of more than one triggering and oppressive moment with white folks this weekend. So I would like to share a short list of things that white people can do to not make a black girl like me [...]

For the first few weeks, I thought I was missing something and that there had to be some logical reason that this dance trend was called the Harlem Shake. But I wasn’t, and it was called the Harlem Shake because people thought that’s what the Harlem Shake is. *face palm* Recently, videos of the real Harlem Shake surfaced on [...]