- 1. French Abortion Drama "Happening" Shows a Realistic Look At The Consequences of Repealing Roe v. Wad
- (Music)
- ... having had an illegal one, you would face prison time, as would the doctor—or midwife, friend, or unqualified stranger—who performed the procedure. The movie is a harrowing account of what women faced ...
- Created on 03 May 2022
- 2. Trevor Noah Made An Important Point About The Kim-Kanye-Pete Davidson Situation—And Got Kanye Banned from Instagram
- (TV)
- ... found Noah, Noah’s mother survived, and eventually, Noah’s abusive stepfather ended up in prison. Noah spoke out as someone who experienced what happens when the harassment escalates and gave a serious ...
- Created on 18 March 2022
- 3. HOORAY, The Equal Rights Amendment Passed! Or DID It?!?
- (Feminism)
- ... could be deemed unconstitutional, and, as the idea of "separate but equal" has already been struck down in cases regarding the 14th amendment, so places like federal prisons and government-owned shelters ...
- Created on 11 March 2022
- 4. 6 Things You Might Not Know About Supreme Court Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson
- (Feminism)
- ... “Pizzagate” conspiracy theorist to four years in prison. In 2016, a North Carolina man named Edgar Maddison Welch fired his AR-15 rifle into a Washington, DC pizzeria. At his sentencing, Judge Jackson ...
- Created on 25 February 2022
- 5. All-Female Law Firm The Decarceration Collective, Is Fighting To Free The Unjustly Imprisoned of Chicago
- (Feminism)
- In the U.S., under the “three-strikes law,” anyone previously convicted of two or more serious felonies faces 25 years to life in federal prison. It’s a discriminatory policy that disproportionately ...
- Created on 21 February 2022
- 6. Ava DuVernay, Taraji P Henson, Cynthia Erivo And More: 9 Movies & Shows Featuring Black Women You Need to Stream This Black History Month
- (Entertainment)
- ... feel empowered this Black History Month. 13th (2016) Co-written and directed by the critically acclaimed Ava DuVernay, this documentary on black disenfranchisement from slavery through the prison ...
- Created on 16 February 2022
- 7. Farewell to Ronnie Spector, One Of The Original Bad Girls Of Rock & Roll Who Brought Edge and Flavor to 1960s Girl Groups
- (Music)
- ... Ronnie Spector was as much a survivor as Tina Turner, as she too would be forced to flee a controlling and abusive marriage, in her case to producer Phil Spector, (who would be imprisoned for the murder ...
- Created on 18 January 2022
- 8. Alice Sebold apologizes to man she wrongfully accused of rape after he spent 16 years in prison
- (Feminism)
- ... After each spending 5 to 13 years in prison, they were exonerated in 2002 after another man confessed to the crime. It is also eerily similar to the Scottsboro Boys’ case, who were wrongfully accused of ...
- Created on 08 December 2021
- 9. 10 Female-Driven Holiday Films To Cozy Up With This Winter
- (Movies)
- ... 2015 Tangerine follows a transgender sex worker, Sin-Dee Rella (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez), as she treks through LA’s red-light district on Christmas Eve night. Fresh out of a month-long prison sentence, ...
- Created on 02 December 2021
- 10. St Vincent Speaks to Carrie Brownstein About Their New Film "The Nowhere Inn," Their Feelings About Feminism, and the Dangers of Believing Your Own Hyp
- (Music)
- ... girlfriend. Also referenced in the film is the story of Clark’s father, who was incarcerated in 2010 for his role in a multimillion-dollar stock manipulation scheme. (His 2019 release from prison also ...
- Created on 30 November 2021
- 11. Child Marriage in America: How Courtney Stodden and Other Girls Are Being Forced To Marry Their Rapists
- (Feminism)
- ... went to prison in my mind,” Johnson says. “I had to live that life…and he went through nothing.” Child marriage is a human rights abuse that protects predators and punishes girls. It legalizes sex with ...
- Created on 12 November 2021
- 12. R. Kelly, R&B Singer and Producer, Finally Convicted of Sex Crimes After Decades of Allegations and Crimes Against Underage Girls and Boys
- (Music)
- ... in swifter action. The women who accused both Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby were predominantly white, and both men were imprisoned. The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community ...
- Created on 28 September 2021
- 13. Lil Nas X Turns Dolly Parton's "Jolene" Into Haunting and Soulful Tale of Queer Heartbreak, and We're Here For ...
- (Music)
- ... explored everything from homosexuality as a “sin” to sexual anxiety in prisons, redefining what it means to be queer in America today. “[People always say] go where you’re accepted and stuff like that, ...
- Created on 23 September 2021
- 14. "Mi cuerpo, mi opcion": Mexico supports the decriminalization of abortion in Supreme Court vot
- (Feminism)
- ... that currently allow for the imprisonment of people who have abortions, as well as challenging other criminal offenses associated with the procedure. Furthermore, people can now sue the state to have ...
- Created on 10 September 2021
- 15. Black Canary Spinoff in the Pipeline with Jurnee Smollett Reprising Role in the DC Films Sequel. Misha Green of Lovecraft Country Set to Write
- (Movies)
- ... Escape from Spiderhead. Based on the George Saunders short story of the same name, the film depicts a futuristic society in which experiments are conducted on prisoners given emotion-altering drugs; it ...
- Created on 23 August 2021
- 16. "Incel" Goes on Deadly Shooting Rampage in England, Murdering 5 Before Turning Gun on Himself ...
- (Feminism)
- On Friday, August 13, 2021, in Plymouth, England, Jake Davison, 22, shot and killed five people before turning the gun on himself. According to CNN, the victims included the shooter’s mother Maxine ...
- Created on 23 August 2021
- 17. New Trailer Alert: Stranger Things Season 4 is Back—In 2022
- (TV)
- ... Things is heading back to Netflix next year. A trailer was released last year featuring an imprisoned Hopper (David Harbour) somewhere in the USSR, at least letting fans know that El’s surrogate dad ...
- Created on 06 August 2021
- 18. Lil Nas X twerks to end cash bail in hot-as-hell video for "Industry Baby
- (Music)
- ... to 5 years in Montero State Prison (an allusion to his Satan shoe legal troubles with Nike), where his life as an inmate includes hot pink uniforms, impeccable naked shower choreography, a Shawshank Redemption-style ...
- Created on 23 July 2021
- 19. Norway Passes New Law Banning PhotoShop Among Social Media Influencers
- (Living)
- ... crack down on any alterations made to the face and body, including the use of filters. Failure to do so will result in a fine or even imprisonment. Countless medical studies have shown a correlation ...
- Created on 22 July 2021
- 20. The Remarkable Story of Three Teenage Girls Who Seduced and Killed Traitors During WW II
- (Feminism)
- ... She was arrested and thrown in prison. The barber’s fiancée was brought in and identified Hannie as one of the women who carried out the attack she witnessed. On April 17, 1945, less than three weeks before ...
- Created on 09 July 2021
