In France, cities continue to outlaw the burkini, a modest full-covering bathing suit worn by some Muslim women. According to the New York Times, five cities, including Cannes, have already banned the burkini and three more are in the process of doing so.
In its first season, CBS’s new docuseries, The Case Of, will re-examine the murder of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey. The CBS series the latest addition to the crime docuseries trend of the past couple of years. The success of The Jinx, O.J.: Made in America, and Making a Murderer, coupled with the 20th anniversary of…
Earlier this week, a section of ever-present performance artist Marina Abramović’s memoir, Walk Through Walls, in which she discusses indigenous Australians, began circulating on social media. In the uncorrected proof, Abramović describes “Aborigines” as “really strange and different,” while offering a handful of very…
Earlier this month, Philadelphia organizer and Pennsylvania Bernie Sanders delegate Gwen Snyder told Jezebel that she had been sexually assaulted by a fellow delegate during the Democratic National Convention. Frustrated by the convention’s lack of clear guidelines for handling sexual assault between the delegates and…
In the span of a few weeks, rumors about Hillary Clinton’s supposedly failing health have wormed their way from conspiracy websites into a Donald Trump speech. At a campaign rally in Ohio yesterday, Trump questioned Clinton’s “judgment, stability, and temperament,” adding that she “lacks the mental and physical…
In 1978, clinical psychologists Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes published a paper, “The Imposter Phenomenon in High Achieving Women: Dynamic and Therapeutic Intervention,” which theorized that young women, in particular, were most affected by what they termed impostor phenomenon, an “internal experience” of feeling…
According to a new study in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, Texas’ maternal mortality rate had doubled over a two-year period. More troublingly, while Texas showed the sharpest increase of maternal deaths, the study found that the overall maternal mortality rate within the United States has increased from 2000…
In an essay for Marie Claire, MSNBC/NBC reporter Katy Tur writes that, after Donald Trump launched a personal attack against her at a South Carolina rally, she had to be accompanied out by Secret Service agents. Tur, who’s been covering Trump for the networks for the last year, became the focus of the Republican…
This year’s Democratic Party Platform has been described as one the most progressive ever produced, particularly on the issue of sexual assault. “Democrats,” the platform states, “are committed to ending the scourge of violence against women wherever it occurs —whether in our homes, streets, schools, military, or…
Earlier this week, Brigham Young University announced that the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights is investigating the university for how it handles sexual assault complaints.
In the middle of a hot Tennessee summer, young Harry T. Burn was mulling the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. Congress had proposed the amendment a year prior and it looked like it might die since only 35 states saw fit to ratify and others refused to hold special sessions in order to vote on the Amendment.…
During a rally on Tuesday in Wilmington, North Carolina, Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, indicated that “Second Amendment people” might be able to prevent Hillary Clinton from picking Supreme Court Justices.
According to the latest addition to the increasingly long list of sexual harassment allegations against former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, network personality Andrea Tantaros lodged numerous complaints against her former boss.
Michigan State University has announced that it will close an all women’s study lounge after University of Michigan-Flint professor Mark Perry filed a civil rights complaint in July. Perry argued that the women’s lounge violated Title IX, effectively discriminating against men by failing to provide them with their own…
In the industry of internet writing, certain truths become doctrine: Anger is effective, outrage more so, and dead girls and women—particularly those abused and victimized and murdered—rule the attention game. They are the internet’s profane saints and they have always fueled the media, selling newspapers and…
In a piece published Thursday by Glamour, President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to feminism and to calling himself a feminist. “It’s important that their dad is a feminist,” Obama wrote, referring to his daughters Sasha and Malia, “because now that’s what they expect of all men.”
St. George’s School, an elite boarding school in Rhode Island, announced Wednesday that it would compensate the 30 of the former students who allege that they were sexually abused as students. In a statement, the school announced that it would provide an “undisclosed sum” to a group representing the victims. The…
Fresh off his failed attempt to win the Republican nomination for the presidency, Florida Senator Marco Rubio announced that he would not run for re-election, before finally deciding that he would. His motivation, he said, was the Orlando nightclub shooting that left 49 Floridians dead and another 53 injured.
At a campaign stop in Virginia, large orange baby Donald Trump was interrupted by an actual baby whose cries pierced through the auditorium like an arrow, landing directly in shriveled heart of the Republican nominee.
Last week, a federal appeals court resuscitated a lawsuit accusing Columbia University of gender discrimination against men, specifically in the university’s handling and application Title IX investigations. John Doe’s lawsuit, which was previously dismissed by a lower court, was filed under Title IX, and claims that…
