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What fucking world is this? Ask that, during a pandemic or at any other time, and the immediate response is a question: "Well,what's your alternative?" We are tasked with both

“Research is increasingly pointing to a retreat of working mothers from the U.S. labor force as the pandemic leaves parents with few child care options and the added burden of

The man on the left is a comedian. He has 11 million followers. His fanboys and girls have spent all day whining that I “bullied” him. He is whining that

The artist Banksy has financed a boat to rescue refugees from the Mediterranean. On Thursday, the vessel named Louise Michel, after a French feminist anarchist, rescued 89 people in distress.

This is the polite equivalent - from the left - of Yoho’s undisguised misogyny when he called AOC a “fucking bitch.” Both men believe they are entitled to disrespect a

Translation: white women, Black men, white women, Black men, white women, I am your saviour. When Trump says #SuburbanHousewife he signals “who will protect white women from being raped by

This is fascinating because so many of my followers from Muslim-majority countries want nothing to do with this and so many of my Muslim followers from countries where they are

Kuala Lumpur 2009, launch of Musawah (movement for equality & justice in Muslim family): British Muslim woman told me “If I had to choose between Islam & feminism, I’d choose

“The assumption is that policing will stop or prevent sexual violence,” @AfroLez “There is documented evidence that it does not. So why do we rely on the police as the

On #NakedAthena h/t @adriennemaree #NakedAthena https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1284915669675499520 Remember: in 2015, activists who were part of the Oakland-based organization BlackOUT Collective, donned the painted names of Black

When an elected official - a white man - calls another elected official - Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Latina - a “fucking bitch” on the Capitol steps, it is indeed

That letter in Harper’s: Instructive to see this during a Black-led revolution against systemic racism and brutality in all institutions - not just the police.At a time when voices long