Singapore’s Breast Cancer Foundation has released a new ad campaign that urges women to prioritize preventing and curing breast cancer over more trivial concerns. The campaign, which uses the naked female body as the canvas for cartoons about bad hair days and pimples, raises important questions about what is permissible in the name of an undeniably good cause. [...]

Anyone who has ever been foolish enough to entrust me with the creation of a playlist intended for public consumption knows that I have terrible, terrible taste in music. I pretend to like country ironically, and I act like I only listen to bubblegum pop to keep up with the zeitgeist, but that’s because I’m a [...]

Nina Funnell is one of Australia’s leading young feminist writers. A lifelong feminist, she became a vocal advocate for women’s rights after surviving an abduction and sexual assault in her final year of college. She pressed charges and went public, and in the process, became an activist. She now travels the country speaking to high school [...]

The Australian government recently launched a campaign called The Line, designed to educate young people about healthy romantic relationships and the role that technology can play in bullying and abuse. The campaign makes it clear that though some things are illegal clearly “over the line,” like violence, rape and abuse, other lines are blurry and need [...]

You might remember anti-street harassment activist Holly Kearl from her Feministing Five interview back in April. Holly is the founder of the blog Stop Street Harassment and her book Stop Street Harassment: Making Public Places Safe and Welcoming for Women , is now available online. Here’s a taste: Street harassment is about power, not sexual attraction. When women come into [...]

From Levi’s comes this TV commercial, made, I believe, completely without irony. It’s about how Levi’s Curve ID jeans are “about shape, not size.” Which is why they made the commercial with three model-sized, model-shaped women.

Extra bonus: Totally uncalled for symbolic violence against women!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS8B9IOtOhc

As you may know, my homeland of Australia (from which I am thrilled to be writing this very blog post!) had an election over the weekend. It ended in a hung parliament, since neither party won enough seats to claim a majority. This has left us all feeling rather confused and annoyed, and hopefully it [...]

As you may know, my homeland of Australia (from which I am thrilled to be writing this very blog post!) had an election over the weekend. It ended in a hung parliament, since neither party won enough seats to claim a majority. This has left us all feeling rather confused and annoyed, and hopefully it [...]

Sydney radio station Nova 96.9 is holding a contest to find, “Sydney’s hottest university student,” its radio ad informs me. Awesome, a mixed-gender beauty pageant, I think to myself. How very progressive!
Silly Chloe.

At Sociological Images, Lisa takes a look at a man’s guide to which certain drinks (actually, all drinks except beer and scotch with ice) are unacceptable for them to drink in public.

File this under “patriarchy hurts men too,” because whatever this whipped cream garnished drink is, it looks delicious.

So, I’m dating a feminist. It’s a relatively new experience for me; I’ve dated guys who were “not feminists, but” and guys who called themselves feminists but who, when push came to shove, had pretty traditional beliefs about gender. This is the first time I’ve dated a feminist who rightly calls himself one, and who [...]

Jay Smooth, as longtime readers of Feministing will know, is one of our favorite commentators and male allies. Jay is the founder of New York City’s longest running hip hop radio show, WBAI’s “Underground Railroad,” which has been around for twenty years now. You can also hear him on NPR’s “Morning Edition” every week, talking music and culture. But [...]

Thanks to my roving male feminist spy (that’d be my dad) for the heads up about this new book about the shaping of the discourse about abortion in the years leading up to 1973’s landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade . The book, Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court’s Ruling , [...]

I have a big old lady brain crush on Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law professor and Chair of the Federal Oversight Panel. And I like rap. And I love ponies. Which is why I can not get enough of this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W0vCgMRX0o

I have a big old lady brain crush on Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law professor and Chair of the Federal Oversight Panel. And I like rap. And I love ponies. Which is why I can not get enough of this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W0vCgMRX0o

Dino Rossi is a candidate in the GOP primary race in Washington. Like many Republicans running this year, he’s for tax cuts and deregulation. He is also pro-life. Asked at a campaign event in Spokane last week if he believed that abortion should ever be allowed, Rossi said that he was against abortion for “anything other than [...]

After the photoshopping fiascos from Ralph Lauren and Ann Taylor , I thought we’d seen the worst of overzealous, totally damaging digital alteration. But I guess I was wrong. Thanks to Photoshop Disasters for highlighting this horrendous ad from Proenza Schouler: And check out this one : Victoria’s Secret, the company that wants you to love your body , aren’t just hypocritical. They’re also [...]

We don’t always agree with Slate’s William Saletan here at Feministing, but I have to say that I was really disappointed to hear the way he recently discussed an alleged sexual assault. Last week, Saletan was a guest on Slate’s Political Gabfest, the magazine’s excellent weekly politics podcast. At the end of each episode, the panelists offer up a [...]

Aimée Thorne-Thomsen is a pro-choice feminist activist and sometimes-guest poster here at Feministing. Thorne-Thomsen is the former Director of the now-defunct Pro-Choice Public Education Project , a fantastic organization that worked for reproductive rights and justice for young people, gender non-conforming people, the LGBT community and other groups whose voices often go unheard in the reproductive justice world. But [...]

GQ is holding its annual Better Man Better World Search , which aims to highlight and further the work of men who are improving their communities and their world. Jimmie Briggs , founder of the Man Up Campaign , works with men to end violence against women and to raise awareness about VAW as an issue that everyone, regardless of their gender, [...]