Author: Lailah Olson / Source: did you know? To the certain individuals (*cough* men) out there who are deeply preoccupied with “differences” between male and female brains, I’m gonna have to stop you right there and burst your bubble: there are no legitimate differences between male and female

Author: Kristine Phillips / Source: Washington Post Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz has withdrawn from a writers festival amid allegations that he had forcefully kissed a woman and showed aggressive behavior toward others. Writer Zinzi Clemmons said the incident happened when she was a

Author: Christie D’Zurilla / Source: latimes.com Los Angeles-based author Zinzi Clemmons is accusing Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz of forcibly kissing her when she was a grad student, and two other authors subsequently made allegations of verbal abuse. “I was an unknown wide-eyed 26

Dutch photographer Marinka Masséus went to Iran to create a photo project about ‘My Stealthy Freedom’, the movement that empowers Iranian women to fight for more freedom. Many Iranian women hate compulsory hijab, they see it as a symbol of oppression, forced upon them not by choice or personal

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, These are the poisoned fruits of a neofeudal system in which power, wealth and political influence are concentrated in the apex of the wealth-power pyramid. Stripped of pretense, ours is a culture of rape. Apologists for the system that spawned