Over the summer, Maxine Holloway shared a photograph of her growing baby bump on Instagram, excitedly announcing in…
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A new study from the United Nations finds that more than half of female murder victims last year were killed by…
About a month ago, or maybe more, I went to The Cooper Union to meet the two curators of “We Dissent: Design of the…
Interesting.
It’s interesting that Ariana chooses to engage directly with her fans/haters/trolls...I mean, it’s probably great for her brand that she does seem more ‘accessible’ than Taylor Swift and other pop stars of her ilk, but I can’t imagine it’s healthy - emotionally speaking - for her to be reading the comments and feeling…
Mere seconds after news broke of Mac Miller’s fatal overdose, ex-girlfriend Ariana Grande was bombarded with…
It already has.
Except Jameela wasn’t always conventionally beautiful. She explained in a recent interview that her advocacy surrounding body positivity comes from personal experiences being born deaf, being heavy as a child and bullied about her weight, and in a serious accident that left her unable to walk for more than a year.…
How have the producers of Cats missed the most obvious star cameo? (She only did 1.5 songs in Mama Mia but was the only good thing in that movie, and the only reason many of us saw it)
I think it would be a toss-up. On the one hand, you have sane people who care about women and girls - they’d support a ban on FGM. On the other hand you’ve got the folks who would support it because they think “FGM == Islam == OmgShariaLaw!!1!” However, those folks also tend to think “women & children == property…
No they are not.
Circumcision wasn’t invented to turn men into semen receptacles incapable of feeling pleasure.
It’s a hate crime. The federal government absolutely has jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed against a class of people.
A U.S. district judge in Michigan has ruled against a federal ban on female genital mutilation, arguing that…
There is such a duality to it as well. On one hand, the woman is seen as essentially passive, a decoration, an object, there for the taking, and a sexual toy; on the other hand, she is seen as powerful, predatory, devious, and a sexual danger.
I would like to say that I took me like until the age of 30 to figure out why objectification was a bad thing.
Fun fact: The very first article I ever wrote for The Root was titled, “5 Signs You’re About to Be Racially…
Human rights campaigners are accusing Saudi Arabia of torturing several women’s rights activists using electrocution…
LOL they think they OWN people whose work they're fans of. No Boo. Mariah is bi/tri-racial/mixed, whatever else you want to call her, as an individual. AND her ex-husband/kids' father is black, her favorite producer is black, she tours with other black artists, and her kids, though mixed, will likely see themselves as…
“One Sweet Day,” folks are going to get out of their “Emotions,” admit the real reason they’re so “Obsessed” with…