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Fury of the rape trial feminists: Gisele Pelicot sex attacker has to be protected by police as he faces angry crowd while defence lawyer yells 'up yours' at 'hysterical knitters' after Monster of Avig

Convicted sex attackers were met by angry crowds as they left the court in Avignon today - with protesters who have been supporting Gisele Pelicot through her rape trial ordeal declaring 'shame on you!' Police had to protect the man hiding behind a face mask and hood from angry protesters jeering at him Gisele Pelicot leaves the courthouse after hearing …

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1 week, 1 day ago

Shabana Azmi calls Naseeruddin Shah her ‘favourite actor’, wonders why they are not cast together more

Hindustan Times

Shabana Azmi and Naseeruddin Shah are two of the most acclaimed actors of Indian cinema, having starred in several films in the 80s. Shabana shares new pic with Naseeruddin In the picture, Shabana was seen sitting beside veteran director Shyam Benegal, during his 90th birthday celebrations. In the caption, Shabana wrote: “On Shyam Benegal’s 90th birthday with my co-actor of …

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1 week, 3 days ago

'How dare he': Fox News hosts say they're 'suspicious' of Justin Trudeau after comments

Raw Story

A tit-for-tat between the Canadian prime minister and President-elect Donald Trump is brewing – and Fox News hosts didn’t waste time weighing in on the international back and forth. Canadian Prime Minister Justice Trudeau made waves in MAGA world after he declared earlier this week that he is “and always will be a proud feminist,” Fox News Digital reported. “How …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

The gender conundrum

New Indian Express

CHENNAI: In early October, lieutenant general Rajeev Puri of the Indian Army wrote a five-page letter to his senior, general officer commanding-in-chief lieutenant general Ram Chander Tiwari, appraising the work of eight women colonels under his authority. It was not even two years ago that the Indian Army allowed women officers to be promoted to the rank of colonel, and …

Gender Conundrum

3 weeks, 2 days ago

Manu Joseph: A right that women don’t have is the right to mediocrity

Live Mint

In a few weeks, when Donald Trump takes over as US President once again, people will wonder if things might have been different had his opponent been someone other than Kamala Harris. A way of the world is that it punishes the ordinariness of women and is more understanding of the mediocrity of successful men. The real bias against women …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Trump’s Cabinet picks: How many are credibly accused of sexual abuse?

Slate

Yes, the #MeToo movement launched a culture- and law-changing reckoning with sexual harassment, abuse, and power, first in the U.S., then across the globe. Nowhere is this more apparent than in President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet and close staff picks, several of whom have been accused of sexual misconduct—not to mention the president himself, who has not only been credibly accused …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Women report rise in online misogyny following Donald Trump’s victory

The Independent

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

We fought for Roe and we’re fighting again: Meet the senior activists battling for the right to choose

The Independent

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2 months ago

Envisioning the Asia-Pacific’s Feminist Future

The Diplomat

CHIANG MAI, THAILAND – A room of 500 Asian feminists chanted “women, united, will never be defeated” and then “the people, united, will never be defeated” to kick off the three-day Asia Pacific Feminist Forum, held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, from September 12-14. Unified by the recognition that patriarchal structures, which intersect with a host of -isms – militarism, fundamentalism, …

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2 months ago

Feminists Up in Arms as Bollywood Actor Vikrant Massey's Karwa Chauth Photos Spark Debate

Live Mint

The internet is buzzing over a series of photos shared by Bollywood actor Vikrant Massey on Instagram. The first photo shows him standing patiently in front of his wife, Sheetal Thakur, with the bright moon in the background. The second photo, however, has sparked controversy, with some users criticizing the intimacy depicted between the couple. The third photo has received …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Asian country court recognizes misogyny as motive for hate crime

The Independent

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Joyful warrior Tim Walz and the last days of patriarchy

Salon

In a 2022 op-ed in the Washington Post, former presidential candidate Andrew Yang laid out “one of the biggest problems facing America: Boys and men across all regions and ethnic groups have been failing, both absolutely and relatively, for years. It’s important to note that what seems like a revolution — women’s relative equality in positions of economic, political or …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Exposed: J.D. Vance's ties to 'extreme anti-feminists and misogynists' that formed views

Raw Story

Vance has ties to a slew of far-right academics who believe working women are on drugs and judges should decide who gets to get married, among other extreme opinions, a new analysis shows. Vance's connections to hardcore anti-feminists could have dire consequences for his running mate former President Donald Trump after President Joe Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Anita Anand | Can election of a reformist leader lead to winds of change in Iran?

Deccan Chronicle

In Iran’s just-concluded presidential election runoff, the two final candidates were the moderate Masoud Pezeshkian and the ultra-conservative Saeed Jalili. While media coverage outside Iran has focused more on sanctions which affected the economy and Iran’s nuclear programme during the campaigns, women too put their demands forward. Since then, Iranian feminists and women’s rights activists have been organising and are …

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6 months ago

No party deserves the feminist vote in the UK election

Al Jazeera

For feminists, particularly those of us campaigning to end male violence and secure women’s rights to single-sex spaces and services, the forthcoming UK general election is a minefield. Over the years, the Conservative Party had two female leaders and numerous female ministers, but it never treated women’s rights and concerns as a priority. It is remarkable that the Conservative Party, …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

American progressives better learn what a feminist is

Al Jazeera

At the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards, American superstar Beyonce performed in front of a giant screen blazoned with the word “Feminist” in huge lettering. This is partly the reason why American progressive intelligentsia appears to be struggling to make sense of the left-wing, feminist backlash to the rapid mainstreamisation of “gender ideology” in the United Kingdom. They are unable …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

The Horrible Abuse Allegations Against Diddy Reveal the Legacy—and Limits—of #MeToo

Slate

Seven years after the #MeToo movement swept the United States and then much of the globe, some of the movement’s biggest villains—Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby—have seen their criminal convictions overturned. The #MeToo movement never promised to solve the problems of sexual violence and harassment, nor the problem of powerful men getting away with everything from sexist exploitation to serious crimes …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

I'm childless and single in my 60s, yet my life is rich and full of love. Don't blame feminism if you're unhappy in the autumn of your years, writes MANDY APPLEYARD

Daily Mail

If I were overweight because I gorged on chocolate, I wouldn’t blame Lindt – in the same way that if I’d done a job I loathed for the last 40 years, I wouldn’t hold my school careers adviser responsible. Behavioural scientist Paul Dolan, author of Happy Ever After, argues that the happiest and healthiest population sub-group are women who never …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Richa Chadha talks about terrible experiences with female producers, toxic co-stars: ‘They pretend to be feminists’

Hindustan Times

Actor Richa Chadha has opened up about feminism and how she had "terrible experiences" with female producers who pretend to be feminists. Richa talks about experiences with female producers, co-actors Richa Chadha talked about feminists and 'vile' women. I’ve had some terrible experiences with female producers whose cheques bounced and they pretend to be feminists on Twitter. Richa speaks about …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Anushka Sharma, Alia Bhatt, Katrina Kaif, Kareena Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit: 10 weird celebrity quotes against feminism

Hindustan Times

Anushka Sharma, Katrina Kaif, Madhuri Dixit, Kareena Kapoor, and Salma Hayek are just some of the women who have said they aren't feminists. Alia Bhatt The actor said in a 2016 interview to Cosmopolitan India, “I don’t think most people understand what a feminist really means. Kareena Kapoor At a press conference for Veere Di Wedding in 2018, the actor …

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8 months, 1 week ago

In Brazil, an abortion debate pits feminists against the church

Al Jazeera

Critics say the country’s abortion ban jeopardizes the health of Black and poor women. “Mentally and financially, I wasn’t ready for another pregnancy after the loss of my son.” She decided to terminate, but there was a problem: Brazil’s Penal Code permits abortion only if the pregnancy is the result of rape, puts the mother’s health at risk or doctors …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

JK Rowling dares police to arrest her over SNP’s new hate crime law

The Telegraph

She invited those who agreed with her to share the post and used the hashtag #arrestme. By passing the Hate Crime and Public Order Act, Rowling said MSPs had “placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls”. She said: “The …

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9 months ago

The US war on reproductive rights should concern women everywhere

Al Jazeera

Women in the UK and across Europe will also suffer as a result of the political and legal gains being made by the anti-choice movement in the US. This blatant war on women’s reproductive rights and bodily anatomy in the US should concern not only Americans but also feminists in Europe, and especially those of us in the UK. Caulfield …

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10 months ago

Ally or oppressor? Exploring science through feminist lenses

The Hindu

Is science an ally of feminist movements? “It’s a complex relationship,” says Prof Gita Chadha, Obaid Siddiqui Chair in History and Culture of Science at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru. “For feminist science studies to develop we needed to understand that gender not only shapes us as human beings of different sexes but also shapes our ways of …

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Fury of the rape trial feminists: Gisele Pelicot sex attacker has to be protected by police as he faces angry crowd while defence lawyer yells 'up yours' at 'hysterical knitters' after Monster of Avig

Shabana Azmi calls Naseeruddin Shah her ‘favourite actor’, wonders why they are not cast together more

'How dare he': Fox News hosts say they're 'suspicious' of Justin Trudeau after comments

The gender conundrum

Manu Joseph: A right that women don’t have is the right to mediocrity

Trump’s Cabinet picks: How many are credibly accused of sexual abuse?

Women report rise in online misogyny following Donald Trump’s victory

We fought for Roe and we’re fighting again: Meet the senior activists battling for the right to choose

Envisioning the Asia-Pacific’s Feminist Future

Feminists Up in Arms as Bollywood Actor Vikrant Massey's Karwa Chauth Photos Spark Debate

Asian country court recognizes misogyny as motive for hate crime

Joyful warrior Tim Walz and the last days of patriarchy

Exposed: J.D. Vance's ties to 'extreme anti-feminists and misogynists' that formed views

Anita Anand | Can election of a reformist leader lead to winds of change in Iran?

No party deserves the feminist vote in the UK election

American progressives better learn what a feminist is

The Horrible Abuse Allegations Against Diddy Reveal the Legacy—and Limits—of #MeToo

I'm childless and single in my 60s, yet my life is rich and full of love. Don't blame feminism if you're unhappy in the autumn of your years, writes MANDY APPLEYARD

Richa Chadha talks about terrible experiences with female producers, toxic co-stars: ‘They pretend to be feminists’

Anushka Sharma, Alia Bhatt, Katrina Kaif, Kareena Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit: 10 weird celebrity quotes against feminism

In Brazil, an abortion debate pits feminists against the church

JK Rowling dares police to arrest her over SNP’s new hate crime law

The US war on reproductive rights should concern women everywhere

Ally or oppressor? Exploring science through feminist lenses