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Politics

Denmark’s New Feministisk Initiativ Political Party Is All About Intersectionality & Dismantling Racism

Denmark’s New Feministisk Initiativ Political Party Is All About Intersectionality & Dismantling Racism

Denmark has a new political party, and it is all about intersectional feminism and destroying racism. The Feministisk Initiativ is an off-shoot of the Feminist Initiative parties that have already […]

Contributors, Feminism

If Feminism Doesn’t Include Black Women & Intersectional Issues, Is It Truly About “Equality”?

If Feminism Doesn’t Include Black Women & Intersectional Issues, Is It Truly About “Equality”?

By Myasi Jackson The feminist movement has rapidly grown over the past few years. The Women’s March that was held in Washington, D.C this past January brought out 500,000 men […]

Feminism

FEMINIST FRIDAY: ‘The Mothers’, ‘Here We Are’, & ‘The Crunk Feminist Collection’ Intersectional Books

FEMINIST FRIDAY: ‘The Mothers’, ‘Here We Are’, & ‘The Crunk Feminist Collection’ Intersectional Books

It’s Feminist Friday, readers! If you are already familiar with our ongoing series where we end each week sharing a handful of our favorite videos of the moment, you will […]

Creativity

This Comic Series Perfectly Explains The Need For Intersectional Feminism

This Comic Series Perfectly Explains The Need For Intersectional Feminism

As diverse as our global society is today, feminism should be thought of in the same way. While at the basis is the same definition, the social, political and economic […]

Contributors

How Social Media Has Changed And Amplified The Modern Feminist Message

How Social Media Has Changed And Amplified The Modern Feminist Message

By Katie McBeth Since the original movement took form in the mid nineteenth century, feminism has gone through some huge changes. What first started as a right for women to […]

Feminism

This Slam Poetry Performance Piece “Black Feminist” Emphasizes The Need For Intersectionality

This Slam Poetry Performance Piece “Black Feminist” Emphasizes The Need For Intersectionality

For those of you still unfamiliar or confused about the term “intersectionality”, it is a word and definition coined by black legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw in an essay from 1989 […]

Entertainment

‘Rewrite The Code’ Docu Examines Tech’s Diversity Problem – Where Are All The Black Women?

‘Rewrite The Code’ Docu Examines Tech’s Diversity Problem – Where Are All The Black Women?

It’s common knowledge that the tech industry has a diversity problem. It is an issue that many of the large Silicon Valley brands are working to fix, which is great, […]

Entertainment

Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Says Feminism Is An Integral Part Of Her Writing

Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Says Feminism Is An Integral Part Of Her Writing

She is more recently known as a the woman who was featured on Beyonce’s “***Flawless” track and credited with influencing the singer’s feminist ideals, but author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‘s feminism […]

Entertainment

‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry’ Docu Gives Cred To “Angry” Feminism

‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry’ Docu Gives Cred To “Angry” Feminism

“She’s beautiful when she’s angry” is not just a patronizing statement anymore. Nope, it has now been reclaimed and used as the title for a ground-breaking new documentary examining how […]