Immigrant rights activists are challenging mass incarceration and the US government's increasing reliance on deportation due to the devastating effects of both on communities of colour.
Elena Ferrante’s novels have become a word of mouth success, despite the Italian literary world’s snobbery, because they capture the complex inner world of female friendships and women’s experiences.
‘Female genital mutilation’ is widely condemned, yet the phrase—as well as the narrative of ‘dark Africa’ that it reflects—undermines efforts to reduce rates of cutting.
Migrant women are vulnerable to violence at all stages of their journey due to gendered inequalities and relations of domination. Current EU policies restricting migration exacerbate their vulnerability.
The global non-recognition of domestic and care workers in law and social policy intensifies their exploitation. Their international movement exposes the gendered structural and legal violence of global capitalism.
The framing of early marriage as slavery prevents us from understanding its actual causes and effects.
The New Zealand experience of decriminalised sex work offers a practical alternative to the often-cited Swedish Model. Might it point to a more general way forward? Español
The new Netflix employee perk doesn't stand up to scrutiny, but softens their brand.
NGOs that provide alternative, low-wage employment for 'rescued' sex workers market their goods as 'slave free', yet engage in the same exploitative labour relations that they claim to detest.
Protective homes for women in India are carceral institutions that confine women rescued from the sex trade. Tied to a moralistic agenda of reform, protective homes restrict women’s freedom in multiple ways.
Two thirds of English for speakers of other languages students are women, yet the British government is slashing funding whilst complaining about a lack of integration.
I left Pakistan to live in a society that was supposedly free from bias and discrimination. What happened?
