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Two Girls Are Banned From Flight For Wearing Leggings

And today in sexist news that makes no sense: a United Airlines agent stopped two girls from flying because they were wearing leggings. In a series of tweets, one witness describes...

A Female Body-builder Body-shamed Another Woman In The Gym And People Are Understandably Outraged

If you've ever felt intimated by the so-called 'fit fam' that are a feature in every gym, you can spare a thought for this unfortunate lady who found herself on the receiving...

This Body-positive Blogger Clapped Back To Trolls Who Slammed Her For Gaining Weight In The Best Way

Body-transformation photos have become somewhat of a social-media phenomenon in recent times and by now, most of us are tuned into the fact personal trainers who spend their lives...

44 Things That Defied The Curse of 2016

The dust is finally settling on the year that can only be described as a never-ending sh*tshow. 2016 will forever be remembered as the year that killed Bowie (and many more talented...

There's a Super Important Message Hidden Inside This Lavish Instagram Account's Posts

How many times have you pored over someone's Instagram page, enviously wishing you could swap places with them? Maybe a better question is: if you've never done this, do you even...

This Powerful Photo Series Shows The Raw Suffering Of Sexual Assault Survivors

Convicted sex offender Brock Turner was released from prison earlier this week after having served just three months of his six-month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious...

Watch Amy Schumer Shut Down Creepy-Ass Heckler

There's nothing Amy Schumer does better than tearing down misogynist pigs. So when a guy disrespects her at her own show in Stockholm, she made a spectacle of him the best way...

#Mermaidthighs is The Body-Positive Response to Thigh Gaps We've Always Wanted

Thigh gap, smigh gap. Women of the Internet rejoice! Thin thighs are out and thick thighs are in and it's the best Instagram news we've heard all year. Females everywhere have...

Why Women Need To Stop Obsessing Over Having A Flat Stomach

Although Instagram can provide hours of entertainment mindless scrolling doesn't do your body confidence any good. With round-the-clock access to perfectly-framed and heavily-edited...

Strong Is Sexy: Serena Williams' Inspiring Message About Body Shaming

Despite her exceptional sporting success and her incredible physique, Serena Williams is still often criticised for her athletic appearance. We know, go figure! But she's here...

WATCH: Spice Girls' 'Wannabe' Gets A Powerful Feminist Makeover

It's hard to believe that the Spice Girls first appeared on our TV screens twenty years ago, making mischief and pulling tablecloths off tables in their video for Wannabe in 1996...

Next Time You Compare Yourself To an Instagram Bod, Remember This

​It’s no urban myth most social-media users facilitate various online platforms to promote an edited version of their everyday lives. Not-so-humble brags clutter Instagram and...

What It's Like to Have Sex as a Victim of FGM by a Girl Who Knows All Too Well

The first time Mariya Karimjee had sex she was 22 and the experience was, by all accounts, a disaster. But not in the way that you or I may experience a first-time sex catastrophe...

Women Are Sharing Their Earliest Experiences With Sexism Through The #WhenIWas Hashtag

It seems that sexism towards women is almost like some twisted rite of passage these days. Many of us have been experiencing sexism way before we were able to call it out on Twitter...

There's Now A Taxi-sharing Service Billed As 'The Uber Just For Women'

New ride-sharing service Chariot is set to be the first taxi company that features all-women drivers picking up female-only passengers. Michael Pelletz came up with the idea when...

Women Walk Out Of Church In Protest Against Priest's Support Of Abortion Ban

Women in Poland have been seen walking out of a church during a priest's reading of a letter that supports the plan to tighten up laws on abortion. Meanwhile, women's rights activists...

Prince Harry Makes A Passionate Speech For Women's Rights At The Nepal Girl Summit

Prince Harry has been in Nepal for the past few days visiting people who were displaced from their homes after the massive earthquake that happened in the area nearly a year ago...

Calvin Klein Under Fire For 'Sexist' Advertising Campaign

Calvin Klein have come under fire for their latest #mycalvins ad after it had been said that their main New York billboard seemed to perpetuate outdated gender stereotypes, which...

Caitlin Moran Wrote An Open Letter To The Troubled Young Girls She Meets At Book Signings

Caitlin Moran is an icon to many people, and no more so than young girls. At Letters Live last weekend, Caitlin read aloud an open letter she wrote addressed to these girls that...

WikiHow Taught Me How To Be A Good Feminist

Today is International Women's Day. It's a day to celebrate women, our achievements, and everything we stand for. It's about standing up for feminism. But what is feminism, what...

10 Black Women Who Have Changed History

This month is Black History Month, and what better way to celebrate than learning more about the women who have helped us get to the position we are at now. In the face of extreme...

Movie Producer Tweets Awful Script Introductions To Female Leads And It's Got Us Cringing

Film producer Ross Putman gets sent a lot of garbage scripts. So he started a Twitter account to share the one particularly depressing similarity in all these scripts: the role...

Ladies, Say Hello To Curvy Barbie

Playing with barbies can get boring when every single one of them looks the same. But, after 56 years, Barbie has now become a real woman - with hella curves! She now has 7 different...

This Woman Live-blogged The Aftermath Of Her Rape

Amber Amour is a 27-year-old woman from New York. Whilst on a trip to Cape Town, South Africa with her 'Stop Rape. Educate' campaign, she was raped in a the shower of a hostel...

'Overweight Haters Ltd' Are Handing Fat-Shaming Cards To Women On The Tube

As if our morning commute wasn't stressful enough, now we have to deal with a bunch of d*cks who think it's their prerogative to print off a load of fat-shaming cards and hand...

Here’s Just 3 Examples Of Why The International Day For The Elimination Of Violence Against Women Is So Important

In 1993, the UN General Assembly Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women was created to take action against the epidemic. But more than 20 years on UNWomen.org...

5 Reasons We Need To Sign The #Equality4MentalHealth Petition

Danny Boyle, Louis Theroux and Miranda Hart are just three in a long list of public figures who have signed the #Equality4MentalHealth, an open letter calling for physical and...

What Does Facebook Tolerate More - Nudity Or Racism? The Answer is Depressing

A topless woman or a racist comment, which would you find more offensive? Well a German photographer wanted to know where Facebook stood on the matter, and the answer is sure...

15 Reasons Tampons Are So Effing Luxurious

Because tampons are a girl's best friend. Not diamonds. Always tampons. Period tax sucks but rather than get eggy about it we thought we'd give those people who don't bleed from...

Police Launch New Sexual Consent Campaign Using A Cup Of Tea...

Thames Valley Police have launched a Youtube campaign that uses a cup of tea as an analogy for sexual consent, which is both great and depressing at the same time... This use...

This Girl Shames Disgusting Online Creeps In The Best Way

How do you deal with a decade of sexist and racial abuse from trolls, fetishists and general sleazebags? You publicly shame them, that's what. High five to the girl with the violin...

Baby Loss Awareness Week: Why Losing A Baby Shouldn't Be Taboo

This week is Baby Loss Awareness Week - a week dedicated to breaking the 'taboo' subject of losing a child and helping women to get the support they really need in order to talk...

How The World's So-Called 'Ugliest Woman' Turned Online Hate Into The Most Inspirational Campaign Ever

We’ve all experienced some form of bullying at one point in our lives but imagine being in high school and stumbling across a video on Youtube about yourself. Now imagine that...

This Victoria's Secret Photoshop Fail Might Be The Worst Yet

It's not the first and it probably won't be the last time the Victoria's Secrets photoshop team screws up. The brand is known for its liberal use of airbrushing but this time...

Meryl Streep And Co-stars Face Backlash Over Suffragette T-Shirts

‘I’d rather be a rebel than a slave’ T-shirt used to promote Meryl Streep's new movie gets attention on Twitter for all the wrong reasons. To promote her upcoming movie Suffragette...

Breast Cancer Survivors Show Their Scars In Response To The “Insensitive” #ShowYourStrap Campaign

Marks & Spencer have launched the campaign, #ShowYourStrap which encourages women to post selfies showing their bra straps and although it has good intentions, many survivors...

People Are Tearing Down Gender Stereotypes With The #MasculinitySoFragile Hashtag

The #MasculinitySoFragile hashtag is trending on Twitter, and it's brilliant. The hashtag highlights the downsides and pitfalls of toxic masculinity, and aims to prove that expressing...

Why It's Time To Stop Ignoring The Mental Health Of Young Men

The Sunday Times writer Katie Glass spoke has spoken out about the masculinity crisis that’s affecting the mental health of young men today. With suicide rates rising, guys are...

Actress Jessica Biel Launches Sex-Ed Video Series To Educate Women About Their Bodies

Quick question: how well do you know the female anatomy? Could you tell the difference between labium majus and the labium minus? It seems many women don't actually know their...

Black Dot Campaign Gives New Hope For Victims Of Domestic Abuse

This campaign made by an unknown survivor of domestic abuse has raised awareness on the subject of emotional, physical and sexual violence by drawing a small black dot on the...

9 Transgender Celebrities Taking Down Ignorant Stereotypes

In 2015, the conversation when it comes to transgender issues is getting louder and harder to ignore. And thank f*ck for that! But whilst it is finally an LGBT issue that's being...

Video Shows How Clueless Men Really Are When It Comes To Pads And Tampons

In a video that is both hilarious and a little depressing, we watch four men attempt to explain the form and function of various feminine hygiene products. We're talking tampons...

#SilenceHidesViolence: The Campaign Encouraging Victims Of Domestic Violence To Speak Out

According to National Office of Statistics 4.6 million women in England and Wales have experienced domestic abuse. But with statistics like that, the global conversation on domestic...

This Top-Ranking Star Pupil Received Mysterious Zeros On Her Exam Results And The World Is Pissed

School exams are never easy. But at least when we fail we normally know it’s because we haven’t studied enough. But what if you found out that all your hard work had been squandered...

International Women's Day: 10 Things That Are Still A Work In Progress For Feminists In 2017

I’m proud of us, ladies. It’s 2017, and we have come so far in our fight for equality. We’ve done a great job in our roles as feminist goddesses, and I reckon Emmeline Pankhurst...

This Period-shaming Ad Is Everything That's Wrong With The World

Congrats guys! You've managed to body-shame and period-shame 50% of the world's population in under two minutes flat. If we didn't have a heavy flow and a raging mood swing before...

This Woman Documented Her Stay At A Modern Mental Hospital And The Photos Are Extremely Moving

We all have an image that we associate with mental hospitals but how much do you really know about what really happens to the people living there? Photographer Laura Hospes documented...

Elderly Lady Stands Up To Slut-Shamer On Tube And Becomes Our New Favourite Person

If there’s one thing we love more than feisty ladies, it’s when they’re old and wise AF. So when a sweary OAP comes to the aid of her fellow female tube passenger who’s been publicly...

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Inspirational quotes: Wise words from famous women

Women in the lime-light have done a LOT more than look good over the years. These famous women have helped change the way the world looks at women - and said some pretty inspirational...

Cannes Film Festival Makes Its Most Sexist Move Yet

With the Cannes Film Festival currently underway, many guests of the event are in uproar after word spread that numerous women attending were denied entry into the screening of...

The Sexist Hashtag #HowToSpotAFeminist Has Totally Backfired & It's Brilliant!

When Conservative radio host Doc Thompson created the hashtag #HowToSpotAFeminist he was unsurprisingly inundated with the stereotypical replies: fat, ugly man haters who refuse...

17 of the Most Amazing Things About Being a Woman

#Sorrynotsorry to all you gents out there, but being a female is kick-ass. There's really no debating it. We're mothers, leaders, CEOs, sisters, soldiers, caretakers, daughters...

7 Things We Want To See Change This IWD #makeithappen

In case you didn't know March 8th is a pretty big deal for women across the globe. It marks International Women's Day and an opportunity to both celebrate the achievements of...

Page 3 Is No More! 5 Other Issues We Still Need To Change

The Sun has finally gotten rid of their topless Page 3 tradition after 44 years following intense opposition from the No More Page 3 campaign. Since it was never all that necessary...

I Went To Therapy For A Year And This Is What I Learned

Therapy may not be the most comfortable topic in the world to talk about, but it exists for a reason people. Sometimes it takes hearing from somebody who did it to feel like it...

The Feminist Remix Of "All About That Bass" Absolutely Slays It

The girls over at Columbia Business School in the US just got a whole lot sassier with their new song "Bitch In Business" the epic remix of "All About That Bass." The lyrics are...

Should Women Get Paid Menstrual Leave Every Month?

Crippling cramps, heavy bleeding and serious bloating - save the ibuprofen, those miserable days at work could soon be over with a doctor suggesting women should get PAID menstrual...

Pregnant Woman Blasts Anti Abortion Protesters

This pregnant passerby gives anti-abortion protesters the best smack-down ever. Anti abortion protestors filming outside a clinic get a good telling off by a pregnant woman, and...

Single, Young And Paying For Sex? What Men Are Really Up To At The Weekend

Old perverts and geeky men that lacked the confidence to speak to women USED to be the image I had of men who paid for sex. This new report changes everything. For me, paying...