- 1. Trans Community Mourns Brianna Ghey, Victim of Fatal Park Stabbing
- (Feminism)
- ... A post shared by Eva Echo 🐼🏳️⚧️ (@evaech0) Violence against the transgender community has been on the rise in recent years, at least in part due to the increase ...
- Created on 16 February 2023
- 2. 5 Killer Punk Bands to Add to Your “Feminist Rage” Playlist
- (Music)
- ... Referring to their genre as “Barbiegrind” and “Bimboviolence,” BRAT’s bold embrace of the bubbly hyper-feminine – including using Britney Spears samples–in a genre typically characterized by dark imagery ...
- Created on 31 January 2023
- 3. 10 Fanstastic New Books by Women to Make Catching Up on that New Year's Resolution to "Read More" a Breeze! ...
- (Books)
- ... Abduction.” The book closes with a wonderful upending of The Sorrows of Young Werther, waxing on the difference between tenderness and violence. Occasionally disturbing and always intoxicating, Sweetlust ...
- Created on 24 January 2023
- 4. Megan Thee Stallion Deserves Better
- (Entertainment)
- ... can’t we as a society take this Black woman’s pain seriously? Why can’t we give her the respect, nurturing, and protection she needs and deserves after experiencing an act of violence? Why is a woman sharing ...
- Created on 20 December 2022
- 5. Lizzo Shared Her Shine with Powerful Activists During Her People's Choice Award Acceptance Speech: Meet All 17 of The
- (Entertainment)
- ... Elementary School in Uvalde earlier this year. 21 lives were lost during this despicable act of gun violence. Eva Mireles, a teacher at the school, died heroically while protecting her students, and ever ...
- Created on 08 December 2022
- 6. 15 Celebrities Who Won The Internet This Halloween
- (Entertainment)
- ... violence against Pamela Anderson) but with the caption, “But are these even costumes,” Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly for sure know how to keep the public attentive. Rebel Wilson as The Shining ...
- Created on 31 October 2022
- 7. Ava DuVernay, Taraji P Henson, Cynthia Erivo And More: 9 Movies & Shows Featuring Black Women You Need to Stream This Black History Month
- (Entertainment)
- ... especially when it attempted to raise awareness about violence against Black people in the country. As she continues to perform the song, she is constantly being warned and watched by the people around ...
- Created on 16 February 2022
- 8. An Increasing Number of Women in the UK Have Reported Being Pricked or "Spiked" With Drug-Filled Syringe Needles While Out in Public. Activists Are Calling For Safer Nightclub Condition
- (Feminism)
- ... violence against women, a new, horrifying issue has emerged in the past couple of months : “needle spiking." Spiking is a method in which someone pours drugs in somebody else’s drink. It can take many ...
- Created on 02 November 2021
- 9. 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
- 10. How the US Criminal Justice System Failed Olympic Gold Medalists: the Botched FBI Investigation of Former Team USA Doctor Larry Nassar
- (Feminism)
- ... the 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Signed under the Clinton administration, the VAWA provided civil rights remedies for victims of gender-based violence. This law, however, was deemed unconstitutional ...
- Created on 24 September 2021
- 11. Hashing It Out: #MeToo Trailblazer Tarana Burke Opens Up About Her Message of Solidarity and Writing Her Remarkable New Memoir, Unbound
- (Feminism)
- ... lifelong activist who saw a lack of empathy in traditional responses to sexual assault, Burke had been using the phrase “me too” for years to expand the dialogue around sexual violence. She was fresh off ...
- Created on 14 September 2021
- 12. The recent Taliban takeover is terrifying for Afghan women and girls—here's wh
- (Feminism)
- ... August 15, 2021 Violence Against Women In 2009, Afghanistan made historical progress in curbing violence against women and girls in the country by passing the Elimination of Violence ...
- Created on 18 August 2021
- 13. It’s A Matter Of Life Or Death: Why We Must Teach Students About Dating Violence
- (Feminism)
- Texas Governor Greg Abbott vetoed a bill aimed at requiring schools to educate kids about dating violence prevention; this education would occur once in middle school and twice in high school. As ...
- Created on 23 June 2021
- 14. Evan Rachel Wood, Ashley Morgan Smithline, And At Least 13 Other Women Speak Out Against Marilyn Manson
- (Feminism)
- Trigger warning: This article includes detailed descriptions of abuse and sexual violence. Last week, Ashley Morgan Smithline opened up about her abuse with singer Marilyn Manson. Smithline confessed ...
- Created on 13 May 2021
- 15. On International Women's Day, Women in Mexico Marched To Protest The Country's Ongoing Crisis of Gender-Based Violen
- (Feminism)
- ... of sexual violence against women in Mexico. An investigation by Animal Politico found that between 2014 and 2018, only five percent of the country’s sexual assault allegations resulted in a criminal sentence. ...
- Created on 10 March 2021
- 16. “Promising Young Woman” Is Exactly What It Needs To Be
- (Movies)
- Promising Young Woman, the debut film from actress and Killing Eve showrunner Emerald Fennell, is a divisive movie. It tackles the broad and insidious horror of violence against women, in all its casual ...
- Created on 13 February 2021
- 17. Harlem Residents Demand Justice After Violent Attack On Black Woman
- (Feminism)
- ... didn't just bite me and like that was it," she said, "This was a recurring action that he did on my face as if he was trying to literally take my eye. That's what it felt like." The violence inflicted on ...
- Created on 27 January 2021
- 18. Alarming Stats Reveal Increasing Murder Rates of Women and Girls in Guatemala During COVID
- (Feminism)
- ... against women go unpunished in more than 83% of reported cases. Most of the cases of femicide this year remain unsolved and Guatemalan women endure some of the highest rates of interfamilial violence in ...
- Created on 12 October 2020
- 19. Death of indigenous woman who live-streamed abuse by med staff as she lay dying reignites fight for "No More Stolen Sisters
- (Feminism)
- Content warning: The following story contains discussion of violence against Indigenous women. Joyce Echaquan was a 37-year old Atikamekw woman of the Manawan community in Quebec. She was a mother ...
- Created on 09 October 2020
- 20. Pro-Democracy Protests in Thailand Spark Feminist Political Movement
- (Feminism)
- ... of men attempting to silence Thai women, they refuse to stop fighting for their rights. Image Credit: Aeva Karlsrud, BUST art intern. More from BUST Women-Led Protests In Belarus Met With Violence ...
- Created on 07 October 2020
