A film passes the Bechdel Test if it features two or more women talking about anything other than a man. The bar seems to be too low, except over 40% of films do not actually pass. Women’s representation in film has historically been poor, one-dimensional, and deeply dependent on the…

The advent of social movements in the digital era resulted in a curious phenomenon, reactionary movements: Not All Men, All Lives Matter, Straight Pride. The criticism of these movements is pretty straightforward: They ignore the unique struggles of the downtrodden, silence minority voices, and dismiss important messages without adding any…

[TW: Mentions of Sexual Assault, Violence] “If you believe in equality, you are a feminist.” Emma Watson’s definition of feminism, and perhaps the most popular conception of the movement, is an alluring one. Maybe believing that men and women deserve equal rights is all it takes is enough. Women can…

“If you believe in equality, you are a feminist.” Emma Watson’s definition of feminism, and perhaps the most popular conception of the movement, is an alluring one. Maybe believing that men and women deserve equal rights is all it takes, is enough. Women can be liberated if we spread the…

Almost all social movements can be approximately internally divided into two categories, which we’ll call the Deviants and the Assimilationists. …

Work has long been defined by a patriarchal society. Access to the rich bounties and upward social mobility that the American Dream promises have never exactly been equal. What counted as ‘work’ that could be bought and sold on the market has always been defined by men, for men. The…

Sometimes it is necessary to keep people from certain groups out of the conversation. They bring harmful ideas, are often abusive, and willfully ignorant to struggles faced by minority communities. It is important to point out that J K Rowling is not a feminist (Google ‘TERFs’ if you don’t know…

The modern Men’s Rights Movement is little more than a reactionary uprising against the feminist movement, mostly populated by right-wing anti-feminists, but MRAs are not necessarily without a legitimate cause. In her video titled ‘Men’, Natalie Wynn (aka Contrapoints) discusses at length the modern crisis of masculinity that has led…

Smoke and Mirrors Queer activism in the 1990s was highly academic. While prominent activist groups like the Mattachine Society fought the oppression of queer people, the discourse surrounding sexual freedom and expression had no place in the movement. The LGBT movement largely focussed on the issues faced by gay men…