She’s the cute girl next door who matured into a committed mother and supportive wife. Her husband is lucky to have found someone like her — pretty, fun, and a loving homemaker. What her husband doesn’t know, though, is that she secretly loves to escape their white picket fence life…

Iranian people have been loud and clear about wanting the rest of the world to share the social media content they create. Unfortunately, while an empowering video is going viral, a lot of the time the person that made it has already been murdered or arrested. A video of a…

The fury I felt on Norma Jeane Mortenson’s behalf kept me tossing and turning all night — Joyce Carol Oats wrote the novel Blonde in 2000. It quickly became an award-winning best-seller. Oats made it crystal clear that her novel was a work of fiction: While many characters portrayed here have some counterparts in the life and times of Marilyn Monroe, the characterizations and incidents presented are…

Feeling Small in the Wake of Political and Religious Misogyny As a self-proclaimed and active feminist, I’ve been having a lot of complicated feelings lately. Let’s give them some context first. Afghanistan: Erasure of Women In August 2021, Afghanistan was once again taken over by the Taliban. From my cozy one bedroom apartment in Europe, surrounded by fluffy pink pillows and walls full of…

Sanna Marin’s overnight international stardom — and its curious timing. — Sanna Marin was an unknown to most until last week. Unless you follow international politics, you might not have known much about the Prime Minister of Finland. Today, she’s one of the most interesting women in the world: just because she was ‘caught dancing’. The so-called scandal, as well as…

I completed my challenge and I’m ‘back on the sauce’. I went to the supermarket. I knew it was risky. I had already started spotting and the pressure of the seatbelt against my uterus on the car ride over made me nauseous. Normally, I wouldn’t dare go shopping in this…

Did you know that your period is a major pollutant? Of course, it’s not your actual period that is a pollutant —but the products you use to “handle it” most certainly are. The Math An average menstruating person has between 450 and 500 periods in their lifetime. In a lifetime, it’s expected…

The birds and the bees and endometriosis People undertake reproductive surgery for various reasons. This article is about recovery after laparoscopic surgery for endometriosis, but contains advice for any person with female reproductive organs who feels just about ready to get back out there! Some women* decide on surgery hoping…

While female content is being removed with the speed of a thoughtless click, male harassment remains tolerated — I don’t have any illusions that my act of protest will be of much consequence, but I refuse to go down quietly. Sex sells — everywhere, even on TikTok With all its policies and guidelines, videos of young girls in provocative outfits performing sexualized dance routines, making out with each other, sexually teasing the audience — the…