An update on Kesha’s legal battle with her rapist, Lukasz Gottwald, otherwise known as “Dr. Luke”: After denying Kesha a preliminary injunction releasing her from her contract with Kemosabe, a label owned by Sony in February, on Wednesday, April 6th, New York State Judge Shirley Werner Kornreich threw out her case, siding with Sony and rejecting all of Kesha’s claims. According to Judge Kornreich, Kesha’s rape occurred outside the legal time limit and lacked jurisdiction.

I am 27, and sometimes, when the conversation turns to sex, my mind leaves the room. The others don’t tend to notice that I’m not there in the rehearsal room, or the train carriage, or the pub. I am in your flat.I am 27, and it is five years to the day since we met. It is five years to the day since the English Speaking Happy Hour in Bar Fuoricorso, five years to the day since you switched from English to your soft, lazy Venetian and got me hooked on your speaking voice.

Journalist Alex Morris' longform piece "The War on Planned Parenthood," published by Rolling Stone yesterday, tells the deeply personal tale of her experience reporting on Ohio’s decision to defund Planned Parenthood—while going through her own miscarriage. In many cases, including Morris', the miscarriage is not completely natural, with a necessary dilation and curettage. In any other context, a D&C; is known as an abortion. Morris shares her experience as she reports on legislation that would essentially reverse Roe V.

When I was a kid, I was known to disappear inside my closet and burrow underneath my blankie with a book in hand. I just wanted to get lost in the worlds that books created. There was the time when, embarrassingly, I read cheesy Harlequin novels. And then I couldn’t get enough of the sexy, dangerous world of Jackie Collins’ Lucky Santangelo. But nothing compared to the most influential phase of reading black literature, which coincided with my own struggles with identity.To be a black girl in America at any time is to constantly be under attack. That’s the unvarnished truth.

Last month, Indiana passed HB 1337, an anti abortion bill so restrictive, even many pro-life Republicans are against it.

On April 4, ELLE published a rare interview with Beyoncé. That’s right, Bey herself— who rarely speaks to the press and famously didn't give an interview when she appeared on the cover of Vogue — has spoken. Listen up, because she gives crystal-clear answers on her views on feminism, power, and the intentions behind her song “Formation," the song that completely slayed the Super Bowl halftime show (Coldplay who?). Beyoncé performing "Formation" at the Super Bowl In the interview, Bey explains feminism so simply and directly that it really should silence all the doubters.

On Saturday afternoon, Hilde Kate Lysiak reported a murder in her hometown of Selingsrove, Pennsylvania, long before her competitors arrived at the scene. Hilde is 9. Pretty amazing, right? After receiving a tip from a credited source, she headed to 9th st where there was heavy police traffic with her pen and camera, and later posted the story along with a video to Orange Street News, the site she publishes and edits.

A Northern Ireland woman has been given a three-month prison sentence for inducing an abortion.  Had the woman lived anywhere else in the UK other than Northern Ireland, she would not have been prosecuted for inducing her own abortion. As a UK citizen, the woman could legally have travelled to England for a termination. CNN reported that the young woman, whose name cannot be released for legal reasons, was 19 years old at the time of her pregnancy and lacked the money to travel to England in order to safely abort the pregnancy.

In a video from BBC, one of the last remaining women of WWII's Air Transport Auxiliary,  Joy Lofthouse took to the sky 7 decades after her last flight. As a part of the Royal Air Force, the women of Air Transport Auxilary aka Attagirls "made an enormous contribution to the war effort by taking over from service pilots the task of ferrying Royal Air Force and Royal Navy warplanes between factories, maintenance units, and front-line squadrons.

Whoopi Goldberg and edibles maker Maya Elisabeth of Om Edibles—an all-female grow collective—have teamed up to help ladies who suffer from period pains. The joint venture, aptly named, Whoopi & Maya, will be producing marijuana-infused goodies to ease the menstrual pains. Although Whoopi is not the first celeb ganjapreneur to follow a cannabis career path now that weed is being legalized in several states—however, she is the first one to focus on relieving cramp pains.