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Think #MeToo Didn’t Make a Real Difference? Think Again
What difference did #MeToo actually make? In 2017 and 2018, the viral hashtag became a global sensation that motivated millions to speak out about sexual assault and harassment. But more recently,...
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Feminism Must Include Empathy for Working-Class Men
Elite feminism at times substitutes a culture of contempt for a culture of care. If we are truly devoted to gender equality, we must ditch the assumption that all men enjoy similar privilege. Review of...
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On the Importance of Feminist Responses to Militarization
Over the past few years, militarization has become one of the most vigorously debated issues in Mexico. This is true, in part, because the government has given unprecedented new powers and privileges...
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Labor Leader Ai-jen Poo Confronts ‘the Biggest Driver of Economic Inequality...
Ai-jen Poo, a labor organizer and president of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, has been shining the spotlight on the crisis of care in the United States for almost three decades. She advocates...
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AK47: Love, Sex, & Revolution
A review of A.K. 47: 47 Selections from the Works of Alexandra Kollontai In this ongoing podcast, Kristen Ghodsee (author of 12 books including Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism & Everyday...
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Education Doesn’t Solve the Pay Gap. Experts Say They’re Not Surprised.
Education does not solve the pay gap between men and women, data from the U.S. Census Bureau found, and the higher-paying the field, the greater the difference. That disparity is unsurprising to...
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Gendering Genocide
The Israeli attacks on Gaza have resulted in the mass slaughter of Palestinian women and children; this violence is part of the state’s genocidal strategy. Reported daily in the Arab media but either...
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Love Against Crush Culture
There’s a good chance that each of us has been infected by heteronormativity, and hopes to fall in love. That’s true whether we are lesbians, feminists, or anarchists, and holds even if we’re building...
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Without a Healthy Democracy, None of the Other Issues Matter
Watching the returns from the Iowa Republican caucus this week, I felt the usual excitement of the start of a presidential campaign, plus a bit of nostalgia. Four years ago this month, The 19th...
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How Women in Pakistan Are Fighting Enforced Disappearances and Killings
As hundreds took to the streets of Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, on Jan. 12, a sea of mostly female protesters continued screaming “Balochistan wants justice,” even as they were met with a heavy...
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More ‘Navigators’ Are Helping Women Travel to Have Abortions
Chloe Bell is a case manager at the National Abortion Federation. She spends her days helping people cover the cost of an abortion and, increasingly, the interstate travel many of them need to get the...
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Breaking Barriers For Black Women Candidates
Black women are among the most politically underrepresented Americans. They are 7.7 percent of the total US population and 15.3 percent of the population of women, yet they are only 5.4 percent of all...
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“Nobody Could Prepare You for the War”: Interview with Croatian Feminist...
Biljana Kašić is a feminist theorist as well as peace and civil activist from Croatia. She is one of the leaders of the Centre for Women’s Studies (Zagreb), the co-founder of many feminist initiatives...
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Birmingham Hospital System Pauses IVF Treatments After Alabama Court Ruling
The University of Alabama at Birmingham health system announced on Wednesday that it was suspending in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments for its patients as it assessed what a ruling from the state...
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Rojava (AANES) | Liberation in Action
This video is a brief inspection of AANES (The Autonomous Administration of Northeast Syria). It is part of a video series wherein I talk about modern day and historical accounts of horizontal and...
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Feminist and Mutual Aid in the Wake of Chilean Wildfires
“The most important thing is to take care of the place where you’re from. If you don’t, who else will?” asks Ana Paula Fuentes. She’s sitting in a deck chair surrounded by the ashes of what was her...
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Women’s Protection Units (YPJ): On Societal Transformation and Revolutionary...
The following is an exclusive KCS interview with Berivan Amuda, from the YPJ (Women’s Protection Units) Information and Documentation Office, which was conducted on December 8th, 2023. The YPJ was...
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‘Opera has never been white’: The Invisible Legacy of Black Women in...
It was 1781 when a 14-year-old girl made her debut as an opera soloist in Saint-Domingue, the former French colony now called Haiti. She was a free person of color, the first person of African descent...
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We Won’t Go Back Into Our Cages: Celebrating Women’s Day in Nicaragua
“We have painful stories, stories of marginalization, a history of being trampled because we are women and even more because we are rural peasant women, campesinas,” says Rosibel Ramos, bright eyes...
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The Unheard Struggles of Palestinian Women Amidst Global Feminism
To my Palestinian sisters, Despite the global rise of the feminist liberation movement launched decades ago to amplify the voices of women, there exists a troubling disconnect and indifference towards...
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