Stories about: feminism
“It’s okay to not always feel like you have the reins when you’re making decisions in your life.” mxmtoon chats to Archer Magazine.
It appears the only way society has allowed femme rage is when it is displayed by white, conventionally attractive women, and portrayed through the aestheticised lens of film.
I taught Bewitched in relation to many topics, but it was my own relationship to bisexuality that changed the way I read the show.
‘Trophy Boys’ is a camp extravaganza starring femme and non-binary folks in drag as the awful private school boys of your dreams/nightmares.
There’s no guidebook for parenting, much less queer or feminist parenting, but I’m proud to belong to a generation that is muddling through.
Yen-Rong Wong talks about her new book, Me, Her, Us, exploring race, sex, pleasure, kink, familial expectation and identity.
I once entertained the idea of posting a selfie online, three hours into my abortion, revealing me swathed in my own sweat.
Trans identities and trans relationships are very rarely represented anywhere, and that makes it all the more empowering when we are united through something as simple as Eurovision.
How can the mind transcend madness when it’s confined and magnified within these walls?
Just about every live Madonna performance features gendered revenge themes. She overpowers men via kicking, hitting, shooting or fucking.
It became apparent why the way women’s sport is participated in and played resonates so deeply with me: it is so critically important.
In 1990, after divorcing my dad, my mum moved to Brunswick aged 30. Here, she encountered feminist politics and lesbian activism.
Asexuality normalises the breadth and depth of sexual and romantic possibility, acknowledging the ways that desire is complex and individual.
Content warning: This article contains details of gendered violence and discussions of suicide. When I first bled, I was sitting on my bed wearing yellow floral underwear. The pattern matched my soul. I was 12, and mature enough to know what it was. At school, students like me were taken to the dark and dusty …
My approach to my own kinkiness and queerness is not complete without the acknowledgment of my multitudes: being a bisexual, Asian, woman of colour.
We need to turn our attention to the systems in place that have allowed for the patriarchy to take over; systems such as capitalism and fascism.
We all live under patriarchy, and its pull towards entrenched gender roles is strong. When working against this pull, being a ‘good man’ cannot be a fixed point. It’s not an end status that one can attain, and then finally rest.
Wading into the deep end of the pool as a trans woman athlete has been fraught with problems. I was only three years into my transition when I made the decision to return to sport in 2004. Prior to this, I had been a competitive athlete since my 5th grade of school. All I had …
I am worried about attending my first International Women’s Day march. What will the public on the train think of me? My hat is emblazoned with a scribbled slogan that reads “feminism without trans women is not feminism.” Looking back, I shouldn’t have even worried about stares from TERFS on the train, because there was …
Rebecca Shaw (aka Brocklesnitch) is a writer, co-host of Bring A Plate podcast and creator of the parody Twitter account @NoToFeminism. She tweets hilarious responses to the sexist arguments about gender equality, complete with shoddy spelling and grammar. She just recently turned her famous Twitter account into a book, No To Feminism. Dani Leever asked her a few …
Charlotte Long chats with Maeve Marsden about Lady Sings It Better, a comedic cabaret of women who perform misogynistic songs.
Porn and pleasure: Navigating the feminist conflict between morality and desire in watching porn
Just because I am a feminist woman does not mean I watch porn to see people stare into each other’s eyes and fall in love while fucking.