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Published in: 50.50Intersex rights activists challenge the roots of gender oppression – and we must support them2017 brought promising developments for intersex rights. But with much work still to be done, feminist allies must...
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Published in: 50.50Revealed: the US ‘Christian fundamentalists’ behind new Netflix film on millennial sex livesA new film about youth ‘hookup culture’ follows students at Spring Break beach parties in Florida. Does it have a...
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Published in: 50.50Young, trans Nigerians: ‘people need to see that we exist’It may become harder for church and state to deny that trans Nigerians exist, thanks to activists like Miss saHHara.
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Published in: 50.50Girls at Dhabas: challenging issues of safety, or ‘respectability’ in urban Pakistan?“You need to understand,” I told the reporter. “These are baby steps, but important steps, for fuller participation...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist bots vs right-wing trolls: Brazil’s gender justice movements cross new frontiersAbortion has long been criminalised in Brazil. It is an issue that many have all but given up on – except for...
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Published in: 50.50How women in the Balkans are using social media to fight sexismWomen are primary targets of bias and online harassment in the Balkans. Now, a growing number are using the internet...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBlack Tunisian women: ceaseless erasure and post-racial illusionFour black women from all walks of life speak up about their experiences. They can no longer be silenced.
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Published in: 50.50#IBelieveHer protesters face backlash after Belfast rape acquittalsA gruelling rape trial ended in the acquittal of rugby players, prompting online outrage, offline protests – and a...
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Published in: 50.50The Backlash podcast episode 2: "you can't eat a condom"Anti-choice activists at the United Nations argue that rural women need food, not reproductive choice. But unsafe...
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Published in: 50.50Teen Mom Tanzania: denied sex education, then criminalised for pregnancyPregnant teenagers face expulsion from school, arrests, even death. The backlash against sex education in Africa is...
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Published in: 50.50How the UN women’s talks failed to call out corporate power – letting down our human rights defendersLast month’s Commission on the Status of Women talks failed to tackle corporate impunity, despite increasingly...
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Published in: 50.50#MeToo in Japan: 'I was told not to bring shame on the country, with my story’Journalist Shiori Ito spoke about her own experience of sexual assault in 2017 – a year marked by allegations...
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Published in: 50.50Thanks to social media, do teenage girls like Ahed Tamimi now have the power to influence wars?Social media has enabled girls and young women to influence contemporary conflicts in new ways, according to 'War in...
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Published in: 50.50DRC mining industry is a prime example of how corporate power threatens women’s rightsThis is why feminist activists are mobilising behind a proposed international treaty to regulate the impacts of...
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Published in: 50.50How an indigenous woman left her mark on a tumultuous presidential campaign in MexicoMarichuy didn’t gather the necessary number of signatures to run for president, but that hasn’t stopped a movement’s...
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Published in: 50.50Video: feminist activists speak out against corporate impunityHuman rights abuses. Plundered resources. #Feminists4BindingTreaty explain why corporations must be held accountable...
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Published in: 50.50Migrant farmworkers protest in New York City against sexual violenceProtesters march on Thursday to demand fast food giant Wendy’s sign up to scheme to tackle exploitation and improve...
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Published in: 50.50Gender equality cannot be achieved without tax reform for multinational companiesWe can't achieve gender equality, or ensure women’s rights, without progressive tax policies.
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Published in: 50.50‘We won’t give up’: 25 years of feminist resistance to the war on women’s bodies in PolandIn 1993, the Polish government took away our right to abortion – starting a war on women’s bodies which continues to...
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Published in: 50.50Black Panther’s powerful women are magical – just like our everyday feminist superheroesWatching Black Panther made me think about our everyday feminist superheroes, stepping out of their comfort zones...
