This originally appeared on Everyday Feminism. Republished here with permission. Even if a man is objectified on occasion, it is not the same thing as living within its oppressive structure day in and day out. Can women objectify men? That’s a question that gets asked a lot in feminist circles. And the answer isn’t always easy. Viewing […]
You think I like feeling this angry all the time? “Don’t you just think this kind of stuff always makes women feel like victims?” My friend’s father was scrolling through this very site after someone had mentioned that I wrote regularly at Role/Reboot. “No?” I said, with a question mark, “I don’t?” ***** This is […]
Ignoring the problem of racial violence won’t make it go away. I don’t know when it hit me, the severity of what’s happening out there. Because it’s never happened to me. It’s sad that black men are getting shot, unarmed in the middle of the street. But it’s never happened to me. It’s tragic that […]
Are you, as a young woman who lives in rich country, privileged enough to “not need feminism”? Good for you. But what about the countless women elsewhere who still desperately need it? So all the media hullaballoo surrounding the Women Against Feminism Facebook and Tumblr pages is rather worrying, isn’t? The wave of snarky responses, […]
Preston Mitchum responds to all those who took to Twitter yesterday saying Robin Williams took the easy way out. Trigger warning: This piece contains discussions of depression, mental illness, suicide, and suicide attempts. Oscar-winning actor, Robin Williams, was found dead in his California home yesterday, from an apparent suicide, according to investigators. He was 63 […]
When we talk about police brutality, we often forget about the women who have been killed by police. Here are just a few. Recently, The Root ran a piece that included a slideshow of unarmed black men killed by police. It was a disturbing, to say the least. But too often when we talk about police brutality, we […]
By not addressing the horribly offensive commenter on Jezebel, despite the staff’s multiple requests, we’re left wondering what parent company Gawker Media’s values really are. A few weeks ago in a presentation at Chicago meetup Geekfest, intersectional technologist—as she labels herself on Twitter—and founder of LGBTech.org Coraline Ada Ehmke threw up a PowerPoint screen that […]
When it comes to standing up for black women, empathizing with us, and understanding our vulnerabilities, too often black men are not only missing from our side—they’re battling against us. I’m so tired of black men. I didn’t want to start with that thought, but there it is. Before I started writing, I talked this […]
