Gillis’ stale SNL joke at the expense of women is a classic response by men threatened by women’s excellence and autonomy.

Three proposed measures would establish a right to abortion in their states, while one is intended to repeal an established state constitutional right to abortion.

In Afghanistan, where girls are barred from secondary education, an underground network of home-based schools is preparing ...

As I recently approached the final days of my 16th year as a women’s, gender, and sexuality studies professor in a department that just last year commemorated 50 years of dynamic, interdisciplinary ...

In the public service announcement that aired on Sunday, Epstein survivors demand full transparency and accountability. (Images courtesy of World Without Exploitation) In what they called “the most ...

Actor and director Kristen Stewart is among the many women who have called for greater inclusiveness in the film industry. (Photo by Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons) The reality ...

Gloria Steinem: “It’s crucial that we are together in the most diverse ways possible” (Photo by Gia McKenna) Last month, I hosted notable feminist leaders at a salon at Gloria Steinem’s home on the ...

One of the most effective strategies of far-right, conservative activism in the United States is the pile-on tactic. The flooding of propaganda, lawsuits, and new legislation attacking everything from ...

Title IX, the 1972 federal civil rights law guaranteeing gender equity in federally funded education programs, wasn’t on my radar after our daughter was raped on a 2012 overnight trip, nor was it on ...

June 24 marks the third anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion. It marked the first ...

Celibacy is not necessarily a radical act. Yet within our patriarchal society, women choosing to abstain from sex — specifically with men — has been historically interpreted as subversion, as an act ...

This week is the seventh annual Period Poverty Awareness Week, a time to raise awareness about the lack of access to menstrual products needed by girls, women, and anyone else who menstruates, and to ...