One of the goals the Cucumber team have set ourselves this year is to increase the number of recent, regular contributors who are non-white or non-male from 0 to 2. This post describes why we want to do this, what we’ve learned so far about the systemic barriers that keep the community of people who contribute to open source so utterly imbalanced, and outlines how we’ve started tackling the problem in our own project.| Cucumber Blog
Guest Entry by Poorti Dua Introduction Why do some nations become rich while others remain poor? Economists Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson claimed that it was because of institutions; the rules of the game that decide who is included and who is excluded from access to opportunities. But here lies a twist in the story. Whenever […]| Arthashastra
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Ahead of the release of Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl, the Big Issue spoke to British 'showgirls' about the glamour of their world The post ‘A showgirl is in everybody’: Is the life of a showgirl as glamorous as Taylor Swift makes it seem? appeared first on Big Issue.| Big Issue
In between reading this novel, I couldn’t get it out of my mind. The main character is an American woman who served as a nurse during the Viet Nam war. The descriptions of Viet Nam, the country, and the field hospitals are so real you just know they are authentic, and the story often brought […]| Ruth's Reflections
The “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement has exploded in recent years, blending wellness culture, political populism, and deep distrust of mainstream medicine. Under current federal leadership, MAHA is reshaping health policy. But behind its promises of empowerment and clean living lies a troubling pattern: shifting responsibility onto women, amplifying shaky science, and ignoring systemic […] The post The Rise of the MAHA Movement and Implications for Women appeared first on Fe...| Feminist Majority Foundation
Sex-specific education is needed to preserve America’s self-governing republic. Though many are only now rediscovering single-sex public schooling, there is still space for it to exist within the framework established by the Supreme Court’s 1996 United States v. Virginia decision, as I argue in a just-released Provocation for the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American... Read more about: Restoring Single-Sex Education at VMI and Beyond The post Restoring Single-Sex Education at V...| The American Mind
by Tucker Hoffmann Tucker J. Hoffmann is a Graduate Student at the University of Georgia achieving his master’s degree in communication studies through the Rhetorical Studies program. Tucker …| Righting America
I’m taking part in the Readers Imbibing Peril (RIP) challenge for the fifth time this year! This challenge runs from 1st September to 31st October, and involves reading books classified as mystery, suspense, thriller, dark fantasy, gothic, horror or supernatural. You can find my earlier round-ups here: 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024. To kick off, I’m reviewing two … Continue reading RIP XX: Short Reads| Laura Tisdall
Christine Murphy, Notes on Surviving The Fire. Sarah is trying to finish her PhD in religious studies at a university in southern California, considering the threefold nature of Buddhist justifications for violence. Her fellow student and best friend Nathan has spent time in a Catholic monastery in the Dolomites and been celibate for over a … Continue reading Reading Diary, September 12th to 23rd, 2025| Laura Tisdall
Lisa of ANZ Lit Lovers is hosting Short Story September this year, and it fits beautifully with the upcoming Novellas in November, hosted by Rebecca and Cathy, and the new challenge I’m hosting this year, Doorstoppers in December. Lisa has prompted us to focus on one story from each collection we review, but I’m also giving … Continue reading #ShortStorySeptember: Graham Swift & Leone Ross| Laura Tisdall
Graeme Macrae Burnet, His Bloody Project. This Booker-shortlisted novel purports to be a collection of papers concerning a (fictional) notorious murder case; in 1869, a seventeen-year-old crofter c…| Laura Tisdall
(How is it the middle of September already, that’s what I want to know!) Kristin DuMez, on resisting moral collapse from the very beginning: A new religious resource from Freedom Church of th…| Gaudete Theology
A recent study showed more women supported traditional gender roles in 2024 than in 2010, writes Linda Peach. The post From the manosphere to tradwives: why are young women embracing traditional gender roles? appeared first on Women's Agenda.| Women's Agenda
Art Center Waco will spotlight five Austin-based female artists at the In Her Element exhibition. The showcase is in partnership with Women & Their Work, an Austin-based nonprofit focused on uplifting and advancing women in the arts. The opening reception is on Thursday at 6 p.m. and will run through Oct. 31. The post Art Center Waco showcases 5 female artists in new exhibition first appeared on The Baylor Lariat.| The Baylor Lariat
My choice is to leave all planning, preparation and worrying about food to my husband. That feels like a radical feminist act.| The Persistent
What does the phrase “disability culture” make you think of?| The Persistent
In the previous thread, the question was asked as to what feral fellas would look like. Before an attempted answer is made, let us consider want feral might mean. The definition that I am using is some type of attitude/behavior…Read more ›| Spawny's Space
I’ve been interested in Pauline theology for a while: first, for his emphasis on community organization against the norms of 1st century Greco-Roman politeia; second, his relatively egalitarian and universal outlook on gender/sex and nationality (in as much as nationality could be said to exist at the time whether on the basis of ancestry, geography, or politeia); third, his self-understanding as a Pharisee and apostle of Jesus to the Gentiles, which was contrary—or at least orthogonal—...| Traverse Fantasy
Peter Ramsay reviews a new book that explains the transnational character of queer politics and the national character of gay and women’s rights. Book Review: Alexander Stoffel, Eros and Empire: Th…| The Northern Star
According to a blog post by Lawrence Zigerell, Professor of Politics and Government at Illinois State University, people who identify as feminist are substantially more likely to view men coldly, and less likely to view them equally to women, than those who do not. This conclusion is reached through data provided by the American National Election Survey 2022 Pilot Study. By contrast, however, a study published by Psychology of Women Quarterly, indicated opposing results. Utilising six studies...| Recent Questions - Politics Stack Exchange
The Saudi Arabian artist displays performance work alongside Iranian Shirin Neshat in Cartographies of Presence in London| 1854 Photography
For many men who identify as women, nothing is more arousing and “gender affirming” than being treated as a sex doll. When trans activist Paris Lees was “catcalled, sexually objectified and treated like a piece of meat by men,” his response was very different from that of the average woman. To him, “it was absolutely […] The post “Protect the Dolls”: The Porn to Trans Pipeline appeared first on Fairer Disputations.| Fairer Disputations
Let’s say you’re a particularly driven girl. You grew up thinking you’d do the best of everything, find the best of everything, be the best of everything. You have setbacks here and there—even some glorious failures—but overall, you find a way to come out on top in most situations. Ambition can be directed at any […]| Fairer Disputations
Mythos is built around a set of assumptions about what is important, relevant, fitting, and proper, AKA themes.| Σ Frame
Tender is the debut novel by Lauren Du Plessis. It plunges the reader straight into the life of archaeobotanist Nell, an anxious young woman who has lost her stable job documenting finds on pre-con…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
At the final hour… I’m reviewing the last of my 20 Books of Summer. While it was by no means my least favourite, it was definitely the hardest to get done in time! I discovered the femi…| Laura Tisdall
A variety of professors came together to discuss feminist issues within their disciplines at the Christian Feminisms: Faith, Gender, and Justice panel on Thursday afternoon.| The Baylor Lariat - The official student news source
There is a particular kind of woman who appears, again and again, in literature: beautiful, untameable, and mad. She is Bertha in Jane Eyre, confined to an attic. She is Ophelia, floating dead in a river. She is Esther Greenwood in The Bell Jar, sedated into silence. She is unnamed in The Yellow Wallpaper, hallucinating a woman crawling […] The post Mad Women and the Legacy of Female ‘Insanity’ in Literature first appeared on The Badger.| The Badger
Ever since I was a little kid, I noticed a peculiar gendering of dogs and cats in just about every single aspect of children’s products. One extremely specific memory I have is my mom, my sister and I shopping at our local Gymboree and my eye catching a pair of thick, crochet slipper-socks with a...| a magazine
By Ethan “6’3 Champion of Women’s Rights” Blevins Listen, I love women. In fact, I think I love them more than they love themselves. I read feminist literature, attend womens’ rallies and correct other men when they talk over women. Unless, of course, a little extra context is required, purely... The post DEAR PERIODS: STOP IT! appeared first on The Slant.| The Slant
Yes, they're hard to do. But our narrow moral vocabulary for describing non-professional pursuits is making our lives worse.| The New Republic
This history of the first feminist movement in the UK is terrific. The Bluestockings were an informal group of eighteenth-century middle- and upper-class women of talent, distinction, wit and intel…| Kate Macdonald
Cutting up the canon of photographic images gave Justine Kurland an interest in collage that has blossomed into The Rose, a celebrated exhibition on show and in print this summer| 1854 Photography
UMMAH: Divine Oneness, Worship Plurality brings together 50 contributors whose work speaks to spiritual intimacy, exile, resistance, memory, and belonging| 1854 Photography
Carrie Mae Weems is an iconic figure and yet, argues a new retrospective in Turin, there is still much more to say about the universality and magic of her extensive body of work| 1854 Photography
Wait, no, that’s not true — the Republicans are gunning for everyone who is tolerant of other people’s sexual orientation. The gays are just next in line. This is reminding me of …| Pharyngula
So much of the nonsense about the gender binary is projection, and imposition of cultural biases on top of biology. Case in point: this very silly post that claims that putting feathers on dinosaur…| Pharyngula
Some poor people have more reproductive agency than others.| Family Inequality
In a political and scientific landscape that is becoming ever more arid, tense, and hostile to the struggles for transformation and social justice, it is with great joy and enthusiasm that we present this series of four posts written by Brazilian feminist anthropologists and intended for academic readers specializing in STS, as well as for readers in broader feminist networks and activist/grassroots communities.| Platypus
I picked up Natural Enemies of Books from the excellent independent book and magazine shop Rare Mags. I’m interested in the history of printing and typography and wanted to know more about women’s roles in a male-dominated industry. Natural Enemies of Books is a response to the 1937 publication Bookmaking on the Distaff Side, which […]| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
This is the first book I’ve read by Hanne Ørstavik. Stay With Me is her sixteenth novel. She has won multiple awards in her native Norway and her novel Love, translated into English by Martin Aitken, was a finalist in the 2018 National Book Awards for Translated Literature in the US. Aitken is the translator […]| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
The first in a series of articles on photography, Richard Kuehl discusses Ruth Orkin's image of 'An American Girl in Italy'.| The Oxford Student
Quakers are just one step removed from humanists, but with an even greater commitment to social justice. I like that, although I could never join a group with any vestige of god-belief. Still, I ap…| Pharyngula
How social media interactions are contributing to the crisis of masculinity| IM—1776
Timestamp, by Emilee Lord and Karen Cecilia, is a part-theremin, part-dance exploration of womanhood, expectation, and time.| Cherwell
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own […] The post Savage Wolves Among Us appeared first on Voice of Reason.| Voice of Reason
Feminism has a metaphysics problem. This isn't specific to feminism: it's just that feminism is a label applied to a variety of discourses which all claim to have the same political premise or subjective vantage, while differing in both respects—usually this is visible when describing white feminism, bourgeois feminism, liberal feminism, cishet feminism, in contrast to some idealized black feminism, proletarian feminism, radical feminism, trans feminism. It's a hall of mirrors no matter whe...| Traverse Fantasy
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Jean-Claude Larchet has a new book out entitled Renewing Gender: An Orthodox Perspective. It is not a very Orthodox book, however. How can you be Orthodox and publicly accuse the Orthodox Church of…| Brian Patrick Mitchell
One of the best interviews I’ve seen this year came out last week. In it, Benjamin Boyce interviewed Dr. Dani Sulikowski, a faculty member and researcher at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, Australia. Dr. Sulikowski researches how evolved social and reproductive strategies can account for modern sociopolitical ideologies, among other things. Importantly, she is a … Continue reading The End of Elite Overproduction| It's About Empathy – Connection Ties Us Together
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Frankie Miren’s novel The Service follows three women involved in the sex industry in different ways. Lori is an illegal sex worker trying to forge a better life for herself and her daughter.…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
While many radical bookshops across the UK fold under the increasing costs of running a small business, Housmans in Peace House has remained a community pillar for readers and activists alike. The post Prose and pacifism: Cally Road’s radical booksellers appeared first on Artefact.| Artefact
The best-selling true crime author discusses her latest book and how murder can reveal the lives of ordinary people and expose the underlying attitudes of wider society. The post Kate Summerscale: True crime as social commentary appeared first on Artefact.| Artefact
I am relieved that I am not a gay or trans person, since this country is getting worse and worse at dealing with its raging homophobia/transphobia. Even in Minnesota we’ve got self-righteous …| Pharyngula
I’ve been racing through my 20 Books of Summer partly because I went on a holiday with lots of long bus journeys and partly because a lot of them were NetGalley ARCs that publish in June or J…| Laura Tisdall
Rose Mason details her love for the British icon Billie Piper, from her popstar days to Doctor Who, to her feminist auteurship The post Billie Piper is the only celebrity with an unconditional invite to my dinner party appeared first on The Culture Sift.| The Culture Sift
The woman who devoted herself to the creation of a national holiday to honor overworked, underappreciated mothers regretted the commercial juggernaut it became. Was Anna Jarvis stubborn and crazy, as many came to believe, or misunderstood?| BuzzFeed
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The 21 Step Gallery at Rumriver Art Center presents Making Waves, featuring intricate fabric artwork by Jill Whitney-Birk. Jill’s work invites you to look closer—at the stitches, the stories, and the strength of femininity. Blending tradition with rebellion, her pieces challenge us to reconsider the narratives we hold about women. Join us for the opening... Read More| Rumriver Art Center
…when Margaret Thatcher took voice- lowering lessons, she was told to speak as if she had a penis and a cold.| Vox Populi
A new book by Angeleri tells the story of revolutionary feminist economist Nora Castañeda and an innovative state bank to empower women.| Venezuelanalysis
3.75/5 (Good) Zoë Fairbairns’ Benefits (1979) charts the struggles of the British women’s liberation movement in a dystopic near future. An anti-feminist fringe political party called FAMILY comes to power, simultaneously proclaiming family values while systematically dismantling the welfare state. Benefits effectively eviscerates governmental doublespeak and champions the need to organize and educate in order … Continue reading Book Review: Zoë Fairbairns’ Benefits (1979)| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Yoda suggested the title. I ran with it. From Vox via Sharkly, It’s fascinating to observe that the importation of Western feminism has proven to be even worse for Chinese fertility than the notori…| Spawny's Space
Agustín Fuentes has published a new book, Sex is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary. I just started reading it last night — and it’s very good so far — so don’t…| Pharyngula
In recent years I’ve provided a few written endorsements for cool books and other publications. I’ve decided to start sharing them to this site so more people are aware of these works! …| Dr Ruth Pearce
By budgeting better, building savings, and learning how to improve credit reports, women are breaking the debt cycle. Here's how.| When Women Inspire
Resistance as a response to structure has been—and will be—an answer as long as structural systems, power dynamics, social frameworks, and institutional frameworks govern bodies. Scholars lik…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere wellIt were done quickly. Miranda is a college theatre director working on a production of All’s Well That Ends Well, one of Shakespear…| Laura Tisdall
This is a furry blog, where I write about whatever interests me and sign it with my fursona’s name. I sometimes talk about furry fandom topics, but I sometimes also talk about applied cryptog…| Dhole Moments
From Palestine to Iraq, from Lebanon to Syria and Afghanistan, seven women recount how foreign powers promised liberation—only to deliver devastation, blood, and betrayal.| Untold Mag
Martin Schoeller is a photographer known for his unique portraiture. Schoeller was born in 1968. He was raised in West Germany residing in Munich. Martin Schoeller came to the US in 1993. His photo…| Femuscleblog
A review of Enemy Feminism: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation by Sophie Lewis (Haymarket, 2025), £14.99 I finished reading Enemy Feminism on the day the British Supreme Court ruled that equal rights legislation applied exclusively to biological sex. Watching… Continue Reading → The post Contesting two centuries of reactionary feminism appeared first on International Socialism.| International Socialism
Thus, coming late into feminism, Jewish women were advantaged by the fact that many Jewish men had already achieved a raised consciousness, had returned to a Jewish ethnic base and had become interested in the spiritual side of life, even insofar as they might be willing to alter a form for the sake of a more perfect substance. The post From 1975 | A Song for Women in Five Questions appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
The 2025 Wellcome Photography Prize highlights global health challenges through powerful images spanning domestic abuse, climate migration and microscopic disease| 1854 Photography
Even if the worst-case scenario occurs and the interim guidance becomes law, Pearce emphasizes that laws “only make sense if people uphold them.” People and organizations must be willing to fight for trans rights, and make the laws essentially impossible to enforce. As Pearce puts it, “We need intentional, aggressive, extremely homosexual non-compliance.” Earlier this […]| Dr Ruth Pearce
Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It is customary to begin such closing essays with an acknowledgement of the thoughtful efforts of the contributors, and fulsome appreciation of the same. We are indeed indebted to … Continue reading Feminist Peace In Question| The Disorder Of Things
Today’s piece for our symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is from Laura Sjoberg. Laura is Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and Kloppenburg Official Fellow and Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Exeter College, Oxford. Her research addresses issues of gender and security, with focus on politically violent women, feminist war … Continue reading Women, Peace, and Security as Argument and Tension| The Disorder Of Things
The next contribution to our symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace comes from Helen Berents. Helen is Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffiths University. Helen is a feminist scholar centrally concerned with both representations of young people in contexts of crises and conflict, and with engagements … Continue reading Ecotones And Borderlands Of The Feminist Peace| The Disorder Of Things
This third contribution to our symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace comes from Mohamed Sesay. Mohamed is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the African Studies Program in the Department of Social Science at York University in Canada. His research and teaching interests are in development, transitional justice, international criminal justice, rule of law, customary justice, … Continue reading Governing the Feminist Peace to Deflect from Decolonial Peace in Africa| The Disorder Of Things
This second contribution to our symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace comes from Nicole George at the University of Queensland. Nicole is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, where she is also Director of Research. Nicole’s research focuses on the … Continue reading Governing the Feminist Peace: From Institutionalism to Ecology| The Disorder Of Things
A guest post from N.E.. N.E. is a PhD Candidate in International Relations at the University of Sussex (UK), researching militarism and ecological injustice. She is also an Advisor to Scientists for Global Responsibility, Associated Researcher with the World Peace Foundation and author of the new report Resisting Green Militarism: Building Movements for Peace and Eco-Social Justice. **Disclaimer: none of the people … Continue reading Sex, Power & Play at Europe’s Largest Arms Fair| The Disorder Of Things
There’s a recent series of author biographies by Wiley called ‘The Life of the Author‘. They’ve got eight volumes out so far, with another on F. Scott Fitzgerald coming in December this year, and lately I’ve been reading their volume on Milton. The Life of the Author: John Milton (2021), by Richard Bradford, is split […]| Death is a Whale
These memoirs center women thriving in the most technical, filthy, physically arduous, dangerous, male-dominated professions| Electric Literature
Bostock v. Clayton County (2020) was a landmark victory for transgender rights. The Supreme Court ruled that employment discrimination on the basis of| University Press of Kansas
Alanis Morissette's breakout album Jagged Little Pill is three decades old, but just as relevant today as it was when it debuted.| Jenny
My thoughts on how aggression and "Masculine Energy" have played out in my career, with references to recent bullshit from Meta and Zuckerberg| Ideas.Offby1
Musicologists assemble! This is a great group biography, of four British women composers of the twentieth century. One is still well-known: I say ‘still’ because she is now, but Dame Et…| Kate Macdonald
Instead of simply reading about the politics of censorship or gender studies, I am living them.| jGirls+ Magazine
If we fix the financial rules of the electoral game in Canada, we’ll widen the pool of players—and that's a winning move for all of us.| Analysis Archives – The Independent
Théophile Richard. Le Quartet d’Oxford (traduction de Metaphysical Animals), par Clare Mac Cumhaill et Rachael Wiseman propose une biographie croisée de G. E. M. Anscombe (1919-2001), Philippa Foot (1920-2010), Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) et Mary Midgley (1919-2018). Le récit de l’amitié des quatre philosophes, qui s’étend de 1938 à 1955, a pour centre de gravité l’Université d’Oxford où elles ont étudié et se sont retrouvées après-guerre.| Implications philosophiques
The current administration of the federal government in the United States has launched an official campaign against diversity, equality, and inclusion in| University Press of Kansas
Without critical analysis of the gendered, racialized, and sexualized asymmetry of power . . . interreligious peacebuilding serves only a heteropatriarchal neocolonialism.| Contending Modernities
By Peyton Bond This piece gestated as a review of Sophie Lewis’s Enemy Feminisms, though I see now it has become something a little different. The book so struck me that I quickly joined the dialog…| blindfieldjournal.com