There’s just a “ton” of appropriately portrayed females in the MCU.
It was only 3 years ago, at which the world saw the first Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film to have contained a female character in the title – Ant-Man and ...
Fashion Freshens Feminism
Women’s fashion has come a long way since the first world war. From lacy skirts to cargo pants, tight corsets to oversized shirts, fashion has always reflected the reality of ...
The Damaging Veil of Hiding and Distracting
The usage of euphemisms and the downplaying of gender issues in the media is rampant and is nothing but detrimental to our society. For a long time, our world has ...
The Tale of Patriarchy
Aristotle once said ‘as between the sexes, the male is by nature superior and the female inferior, the male ruler and the female subject.’ When you search up ‘Greek Artifact’ ...
The Disappearance 35 Million Girls
“My mother was a B-ultrasound doctor, she knew a lot about abortions, back then our country wasn’t strict about it so many people privately identified the fetus’ sex. My mum ...
Girls Can Do Maths!
It has been two decades since Sophie Germain, a mathematician had her candles confiscated by her parents for studying mathematics, as it was thought to be ‘unsuitable’ for women. And ...
The tradition of sewing the vagina
“An open wound rubbed with salt or hot chilli – it felt like that,” Hibo recalls her experience of going to the toilet after infibulation. This is not a once ...
Is seductive clothing an excuse for rape?
An incident with a Chinese actress, Reyizha Alimjan, wearing what seemed to be overly revealing clothing started a debate regarding women’s freedom of dressing in public. Many social media users ...