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An Open Letter To Lana Del Rey

Dear Lana, I went to your show in NYC the other day. I thought you were fabulous – just as good live as on your albums. But there’s something that’s stopping me from being your #1 fan and advocate…...

October 26, 2017| Articles, Featured Read More

One Harvey Down, Many More To Go

Harvey Weinstein’s fall from grace has been the big scandal of the week. And as with every big-scale revelation of sexual harassment (think Bill Cosby), after the initial story breaks, many more victims come out...

October 12, 2017| Articles Read More

Is It Easy If Chicks Can Do It?

Today I set up a cable box so a friend of mine – let’s call him Jim – could watch a game. After the box was all set up, Jim said “you’ll have to teach me how to do that!” to which I replied “sure”....

October 8, 2017| Articles Read More

Gender-Specific Socks Too?

While standing in the (long) line to pay at Modell’s Sporting Goods here in NYC the other day, I noticed something interesting: the “men’s” and “women’s” socks for sale by the cashier. So I...

September 28, 2017| Articles Read More

Intersectionality or Die?

‘Intersectionality’ is a bit of a buzzword. But there’s quite a lot of confusion buzzing around with it, so I’m going to try and break it down as simply as I can. Intersectionality is the idea that...

September 24, 2017| Articles, Images Read More

An Open Letter To The 86-Year-Old Man Who Groped Me Yesterday

Dear Man Who Groped Me, You don’t know my name, and I don’t know yours. In fact, we don’t know each other all at. But that didn’t stop you from touching my body without my permission. I don’t know if you...

September 16, 2017| Articles, Featured Read More

Mayweather vs McGregor vs Half-naked Women

Did you watch the ‘fight of the century’ yesterday? I did. What a show – big, buff dudes punching each other in the face. And the “stunning ring girls“…  I had heard of the ‘ring...

August 27, 2017| Articles Read More

You’re Not Sexist, Are You?

Discrimination is often invisible to the people discriminating. Not so much the big-scale, “God hates faggots” hate speech, but the small, institutionalized everyday acts; the kind of thing somebody might preface...

August 26, 2017| Articles Read More

Dear Kinder

Dear Kinder, The other night I was out with a few friends here in NYC and we stopped at a deli to pick up a drink. Inside the deli there was a stand of Kinder chocolate eggs, labelled ‘girls’ and ‘boys’, colored...

August 15, 2017| Articles Read More

We’re Equal Now, Right?

Girls and boys are told that everything is equal, that the gender equality war has already been won. Heck, even I was told that, and I was born in 1990. And yes, feminism has come a long way from the time when women...

August 10, 2017| Articles, Featured, Images Read More

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