Chikan and Women Only Carriages (Japanese Translation Included)
You’re on a crowded train with less than a centimeter of space between you and the people around you. You feel suffocated by the sea of heads millimeters away from ...
FREE THE NIP
I was told as a kid that I should only use lip balm when my lips were very chapped, otherwise they’d be weaned off producing their own collagen. Then, during ...
Female Genital Mutilation In Somalia
Female genital mutilation (FGM) consists of a procedure in which, intentionally and for non-medical reasons, the female genital organs are altered or injured. In Somalia, one of the most worrying ...
Mahsa Amini: The Name that Sparked an Outcry
The past few weeks have seen an immense amount of protest on the streets of Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who was arrested due to ...
Reshaping feminism
In the global media, feminism has gotten a bad wrap. We have heard a lot of viral videos and trends on social media and many streaming platforms regarding “radical feminism”. ...
The Indian Gulabi Gang: India’s pink-sari crusaders
The prevailing populace rising up against a mindlessly oppressive institution captures one’s imagination almost immediately and unquestionably in a very dramatic way. The story of how feminist revolt was put ...
Sexual Assault in Japan: How Laws Keep Victims From Receiving Justice
In 2017, Japan revised laws regarding rape to make penalties harsher and change the standards for what is considered rape for the first time in over a century. However, they ...
The Vast Impact of the #MeToo movement
A fundamental human right is to be able to live free from violence. However, gender-based and sexual violence still occurs everywhere. Equal rights and human rights have slowly evolved, advanced, ...
The Cost of a Period
Women usually go through a regular occurrence once a month, though this can vary among different kinds of people. Periods are not always the same for everyone. This also includes ...