AMID the pleasant chaos of the 2021 Venice film festival, Miu Miu hosted an event called Miu Miu Women’s Tales Conversation as part of the Giornate degli Autori program. The event included three separate conversations with women in the film industr...
Feminism
When Sophie Rivera died earlier this year, we lost a fearless and pioneering photographer whose passion for self-discovery was unparalleled. As a freelancer in the 1970s, and as a woman of Puerto Rican descent, Rivera really had to “hustle” for ass...
Charlotte Nicdao and Rob McElhenney star as creative collaborators at a video game studio in Mythic Quest.Poppy Li is one of my favorite characters in all of television.Poppy, as played by Charlotte Nicdao, is one of the main characters of Mythic Que...
1 2 Page 1 of 2The relationship between mens sites like this one, and womens sites like Jezebel or XOJane, is somewhat less than ideal. Thats because they think we are enormous douches. From our perspective, though, we are simply speaking the way tha...
Margaret Thatcher was the first female prime minister of Great Britain, but her female-ness (I hesitate to use the less clumsy but more loaded femininity) was never something that she particularly emphasized. She has not, following her death yesterda...
About two weeks ago, we posted an article about the gesture of holding the door open for women. The article was based on a study in which researchers held the door open for both men and women entering a building, and found that men immediately report...
There is a phrase that has come into prominence in recent years amid the brave men and women hashing it out on the front lines of the battle for gender equality. The phrase, which emerged from the male camp, arguably encompasses the way a lot of men...
Bloomberg News reported that multinational banking firm Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is facing a class action lawsuit for gender discrimination in the workplace.According to multiple former female employees, the firm's allegedly Wolf of Wallstreet-esque...
Why Is This Important?Because if theres anyone who can effectively and intelligently talk dudes into considering feminism, its Emma Watson. And if that doesnt work, she can always bust out her wizardry skills to help her get the point across.Long Sto...
Why Is This Important?Because action figures are pretty much dolls anyway.Long Story ShortTarget announced that they will stop separating girls and boys toys in its stores because they say its unnecessary.Long StoryTrucks for boys, dolls for girls. B...
Cate Blanchett’s Phyllis Schlafly wants to be the only woman in the room where decisions are made. She nearly succeeds.At the center of FX on Hulu’s Mrs. America, a series broadly centered on the anti-Equal Rights Amendment activist Phyllis Sc...
A woman’s work is never done, and in 2015, the next shift might just be looming. Faster feminism (thrill, thrill …) is in its widest spread, and also at its ugliest zenith, all because it’s now entered generations Y’s vocabulary. And the new mart...
AS part of their one-year anniversary of the De Beers partnership with United Nations (UN) Women, have announced the creation of a three-year capacity-building programme to support over 1200 female entrepreneurs across Southern Africa. Aiming to impr...
For a multitude of reasons, I contend that science fiction is more progressively impactful than any other genre. For my article here, I want to focus on a couple of key theories for why science fiction is such a progressive genre and then look at wha...
