Image via “Smith Q&A” Facebook page. Design by jack laxson. On Saturday, Gina de Vries, Elena Rose, and myself brought Girl Talk: A Trans and Cis Woman Dialogue to Smith College. Girl Talk is a multi-media performance show promoting dialogue about relationships of all kinds between queer trans women, queer cis women, and genderqueer people. We were [...]

In December, when controversy about the rape apologist org the Good Men Project was all over the feminist internets, I wrote about problems with the juvenile way of thinking about people in terms like “good” and “bad.” In that post, I briefly mentioned that to address the reality of sexual violence we need a more [...]

Today the White House announced their set of proposals intended to curb gun violence. A Somali journalist has been under arrest for almost a week because he interviewed a woman who claimed she had been raped by members of the Somali army. The criminalization of pregnancy has led to too many people being denied constitutional rights . The Wall Street Journal [...]

Cover art by Olivier Coipel, who will be drawing the book. Marvel is relaunching X-Men in April, to join the 2 ½ other X-Men titles they’re currently publishing. This one will be notable, though, for featuring an all female X-Men team . The comic will star Jubilee, who’s basically the early 90s in character form (I’m the perfect [...]

This graph, put together by the Enliven Project using Department of Justice  and FBI data, is super depressing. But it puts in stark visuals something a lot of us know: it’s way more likely for a rapist to walk free than for the rape to be reported or for someone to be falsely accused of rape. So can [...]

Editor’s note: OK, I’ll admit it. When I was in college there was a secret underground society of lefty organizers bent on taking over the world. It was basically exactly like the Skull and Bones, except we were a bunch of pinko queers who wanted to smash patriarchy, white supremacy, capitalism, and the state. Today you [...]

I appreciate the New York Times pointing out that women hold multiple higher offices in New Hampshire , but I don’t know why they had to keep mentioning the color pink. Speaking of the New York Times , what is this should women wear makeup Room for Debate bull ? And why the hell does the founder of the rape apologist org The [...]

The Feministing crew is currently in the third year of our speaking tour, Feministing: Offline and Unfiltered . We travel to colleges and community centers, bringing you our own snarky, passionate brand of feminism in person. And now is a great time to begin setting up a spring event for your campus! The keynote panel features a group [...]

Late last night the House of Representatives passed the Senate’s final version of the deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff. Incredibly, we’ve reached the point where getting House Republicans to actually do their damn job almost looks like a victory. After behaving like petulant, tea partying children to keep the legislation from passing just to [...]

Despite being a bunch of godless heathen feminists, we’re taking the next couple days off from blogging. We’ll be back Wednesday with our end of the year content. In the mean time, if the holidays are a difficult time of year for you, here are a couple resources I’ve found: The December Project , to help members [...]

Jill Filipovic offers what I really hope can be the last word on this Good Men Project bullshit before we all commence ignoring them forever. Amanda Marcotte on why “men’s movements” are actually a bad idea . The founder of Domino’s Pizza, a well known anti-choicer, sues to keep contraception from his workers . I guess I have another good [...]

On December 3, a lot of the internet, including this site , got very excited that the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V), which is used by mental health professional and folks in related fields, no longer labeled trans people as “disordered.” This would be a great win to celebrate. The [...]

Today is our girl Chloe’s birthday! Chloe joined the Feministing team in 2009 as our interviews contributor, creating the super popular Feministing Five series, which she’s now passed on to Anna. Since then, she’s moved over to the more general blogging side. A year and a half ago she joined the editorial team, where she’s worked on [...]

*Trigger warning* I wish I didn’t have to follow the current  rape apology fustercluck with Alyssa Royse and the Good Men Project (which, admittedly, I never paid much attention to anyway). I do think we need to call out defenders of rape culture who go around calling themselves feminists, but also I’m exhausted from having to do just that way [...]

Anne Hathaway went the Today show yesterday to promote Les Miserables (which I am ridiculously excited about like the big nerd I am). And Matt Lauer took the interview as an opportunity to be a disgusting, patronizing pig. Hathaway had a “wardrobe malfuction” while getting out of a car at the New York premiere of  Les Mis . Because [...]

Pro-choice protesters at the Michigan House in June Remember Michigan’s Chubby Hubby of anti-choice legislation that Chloe wrote about in June?

Except instead of a whole bunch of delicious things rolled into one yummy ice cream, it’s a whole bunch of shitty anti-choice measures rolled into one awful bill. At the risk of sounding like  Stefon, this bill [...]

I’m southern. I’m a sweet-tea-drinking. . . Black-eyed-peas-and-cornbread-banana-pudding-eating. . . Sunday-Bible-toting-unapologetically sassy-sarcastic-back-talking-southerner. And in being a southern lady, there are some things we Belles keep to ourselves and then there are other things that we just have to get off our chest. You see, everything old in politics is new again. Because we are in [...]

I was not at all surprised to learn that Change.org is done pretending to be progressive (I also wouldn’t be surprised if this ends up being bad for business). One thing’s always been clear to me: they’re in it for the money, not the politics. That’s why they got involved in progressive petition gathering in the first [...]