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US President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration is to be marked by protests across the country.

Report alleges Donald Trump paid for 'golden showers' and Twitter cannot contain itself

Jenny Noyes

Meryl Streep tore into Donald Trump in her Golden Globes acceptance speech.

Twitter is listing the things Donald Trump finds 'overrated' after his weak rebuttal of Meryl Streep

Jenny Noyes

Christmas Street passes through Northcote and Alphington.

Christmas Street at loggerheads over festive spirit

Bhakthi Puvanenthiran

An attendee holds a "Women For Trump" sign during an election night party for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at the ...

There's a Tumblr documenting the moments Trump voters realised they made a terrible mistake

Jenny Noyes

Sparkke Change head brewer Agi Gajic.

Meet the women taking on the blokey beer industry with socially-conscious cans

Cameron Nicholls

Photograph of Hillary Clinton walking her dog taken by Gregory Locke near White Plains, New York. Photo from Facebook

How the sight of Hillary Clinton 'in the wild' became a post-election salve

Amanda Hess

Miranda Tapsell's definition of being Aboriginal: "Being told by a white boy from Tassie that that his people pushed my ...

Indigenous Twitter users #DefineAboriginal in wake of Pauline Hanson comments

Jenny Noyes

Ariana Lenarsky.

Woman tweets alleged groping incident on plane, then posts photo when police do nothing

Jenny Noyes

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she didn't misspeak about Donald Trump.

Is this the end of 'Notorious RBG'?

Caitlin Gibson

Tamika Cross.

Black women share selfies to show #WhatADoctorLooksLike

Jenny Noyes

Body Image Movement founder Taryn Brumfitt (C) with Business Chicks CEO Emma Isaacs (L) and Lorna Jane Clarkson (R).

Taryn Brumfitt under fire after Facebook post saying she 'adores' Lorna Jane

Mary Ward

Republican politician Betsy McCaughey

Beyonce the latest excuse for Donald Trump's 'pussy' comments

Jenny Noyes

It was The Washington Post's stamp that gave credence to the authenticity of the 2005 video of Donald Trump on the set ...

A million women share their sexual assault stories after Trump's groping comments

Jenny Noyes

Panagiotis Nikas in action for Sydney United, who won this year's NSW minor premiership.

Sydney United boss issues FFA with stern warning

Michael Cockerill

Liberal senator Cory Bernardi.

Cory Bernardi tried to celebrate his 20th wedding anniversary by trolling LGBT people and failed miserably

COMMENT
Jenny Noyes

Indonesian campaigner Firliana Purwanti poses for a photo in Jakarta.

How to achieve gender equality? Start with an orgasm, says Indonesian campaigner

Beh Lih Yi

YOLO, it's a real word now.

Gender-fluid, moobs, and YOLO are new entries in the Oxford English Dictionary

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, middle, kneels during the national anthem before the team's NFL ...

Oh no. Kate Upton has shared her thoughts on #BlackLivesMatter

Rob Moran

"If you go for a walk around the block and, upon your return, you can't remember what you were so steamed about, chances ...

7 questions to ask yourself before you leave that comment

Clem Bastow

US women's soccer star, Lauren Holiday.

Pregnant US soccer star Lauren Holiday faces brain surgery, news outlets report on how it'll affect her husband's NBA season

Rob Moran

Alana Valentine and Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton during a performance of <em>Letters to Lindy</em>.

With sledgehammer force, Lindy Chamberlain play shows motherhood on trial

COMMENT
Jenna Price

Saudi activist Ghada Ghazzawi tapes a selfie video marking a historical day for Saudi women as she arrives to vote for ...

Saudi Arabian women take to Twitter to demand independence from men

Jenny Noyes

A woman wears a burkini at a beach in Marseille in southern France.

Viral commenter has a convincing argument for banning 'men in suits' rather than women in burkinis

Rob Moran

Protestors in Canberra demanding the government close off-shore detention centres.

88-year-old retired judge writes protest letter to Peter Dutton, requests to trade places with a refugee on Nauru or Manus

Rob Moran

A 2013 article by an Australian pick-up artist has become the mockery of the internet this week.

Why everyone's talking about talking to women wearing headphones

Abby Ohlheiser

The 'how-to guide' for book ninjas.

'Book ninjas' are hiding free books on Melbourne's trams, trains and buses to get commuters reading

Rob Moran

The picture, which was posted without comment, has been shared over 3,500 times.

Facebook blocks account after photo of nuns on beach goes viral

Rob Moran

Pro-choice protesters take place in the 3rd Annual March for Choice in Dublin's City Centre.

Two Irish women live-tweet their trip to Britain for an abortion

Jenny Starrs

The #MermaidThighs hashtag has surfaced on Instagram.

#MermaidThighs: three-years-too-late sequel to thigh gap

Mary Ward

US gymnasts Simone Biles, Madison Kocian and Aly Raisman.

Sad dude gets owned on Twitter after criticising Olympics gymnasts' abs

Rob Moran

"The most important thing you can teach (adolescents) is that love is a behaviour, rather than a feeling." - Author Jill ...

The hashtag making its way into schools to raise awareness about DV

Heidi Stevens

A visitor greets the statue of Harambe the gorilla at Cincinnati Zoo.

Cincinnati Zoo asks internet to please stop making memes about Harambe the gorilla

Rob Moran

Hooray, sexism erased!

Pop the champagne, 56 per cent of men say sexism is over

Rob Moran

"Twitter has proven, again and again, that it doesn't care about meaningful steps towards stopping harassment," writes ...

Delete your Twitter and leave the whole thing to the trolls

Clem Bastow

Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszu with one of the Rio Olympics' most notorious sexist media moments.

Relive the 'magic' of the Rio Olympics with this infuriating supercut of all the sexist coverage so far

Rob Moran

Margot Robbie.

The profile Vanity Fair refused to publish

Ben Pobjie
Ben Pobjie

Shannon Murdoch and her husband Glen.

The reality of racism in Australia

Home truths
Jenna Price

Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party.

People in the UK are sharing racist hate speech they've witnessed in the wake of Brexit

Worrying signs
Jenny Noyes

Brock Turner in his January 2015 booking photo, released by the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office.

This woman perfectly corrected that horrible letter from Brock Turner's dad

Rape culture
Rob Moran

There are plenty of books to choose from if you're looking for self-help.

Read this and prosper! Self-help explained

John Elder

Beyonce's Lemonade scored four nominations.

The mission to destroy 'Becky with the good hair' misses Beyonce's radical point

Good hair? Don't care
Neha Kale

Conventional notions of gender didn't constrain Bowie and Prince.

Prince and Bowie showed there's no one right way to be a man

RIP Prince
Alyssa Rosenberg

It's about considering whether you can practice yoga without spiritually harvesting a culture that is not yours.

Why white people need to stop saying 'namaste'

Cultural appropriation
Kamna Muddagouni

Controversial columnist Clementine Ford, author of Fight Like a Girl.

Clem Ford slams Facebook over shameful 'community guidelines' double standard

Clementine Ford
Rob Moran

"'Spoon Theory' was intended for the chronically ill and its appropriation erases the concerns of a marginalised group," ...

Stop appropriating the language that explains my condition

Spoon Theory
Naomi Chainey

Aziz Ansari and his real-life parents in <i>Master Of None</i>.

On the thrill of seeing first gen immigrant leads on TV

TV diversity
Neha Kale

"It's callous to expect people to work their entire lives, only to be shunted away in old age. But there is another way."

The value of spending time with our elders

Twilight years
Ruby Hamad

Activists produced a makeup tutorial video, starring Reshma Quereshi, to bring attention to the issue of acid attacks in ...

#EndAcidSale: Indian acid attack survivor launches beauty tutorial to raise awareness

Katie Rogers

In the swing of things: Killing Kittens founder Emma Sayle (at right).

Inside Killing Kittens, a sex club for women

Killing Kittens
Laura Jackel

Australian Women's Forum.

The best Australian women's magazine you've never heard of

Lauren Smelcher Sams

Not only is there no data that supports such a claim - a common cry in online comments sections - but the data that we ...

No, women aren't as likely to commit violence as men

Gendered violence
Jane Gilmore

catnip flower

What does your coffee order say about you?

Dom Knight
Dom Knight

catnip flower

The private life of Liz Hayes

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