A few years ago there was a conference in Minneapolis on “Feminism and Rhetoric.” I went as a doctrinaire, whiny feminist. The focus of my rant was directed at younger feminist theorists who were ...

Today author Rafia Zakaria’s third book, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption will hit the shelves. As the title suggests, the Pakistani-American author takes a critical approach to a genre of ...

Blogger Kendall (Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists) indicts mainstream feminism for focusing on “debates over last names, body hair, and the best way to be a CEO” rather than the basic survival of ...

If you're someone who claims the mantel of feminism, who believes in the innate equality of all genders, who thinks that solidarity among communities of women is a core component of the world you want ...

Attorney and journalist Zakaria (Veil) makes a lucid and persuasive argument that feminism must address its “problematic genealogies” of whiteness. She notes that British suffragists refused to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About a year after my wedding, while packing for a move, I came across a box filled with nearly 100 completed thank-you ...

Mikki Kendall is author of the books “Hood Feminism: Notes From The Women That A Movement Forgot” and “Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for Their Rights” Mikki ...

A woman holds her fist in the air as she marches during a Black Lives Matter rally calling for racial justice following the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, Saturday, June 28, 2020, in ...

“We’re not supporting characters in feminism, and we can’t afford to wait for equality to trickle down to us eventually,” Mikki Kendall writes in Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women That a Movement ...

Today’s guest blogger is Margot D. Weiss, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Anthropology, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT. She is the author of 2012 Lambda Award finalist Techniques of ...

Kamala Harris appears for the first time as the vice president elect on Nov. 7 in Wilmington, Del. Her white suit nodded to feminist traditions. Rafia Zakaria reexamines those traditions and calls for ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There's a rich canon of feminist literature, with readable nonfiction picks like "Feminism is for Everyone" by Bell Hooks and beloved modern ...