I was about 15 (I probably looked WAY younger because I’m quite small) and waiting for my mum to pick me up near a graveyard in a rural area. A bunch of guys in their 20′s-30′s showed up to do maintenance on the gravesides. I decided to leave and as I did they began yelling [...]

Cross-posted with permission from The 42. Men of DC: get it together. Street harassment is really out of control here. It happens everyday all day and every night all night. Women endure catcalls, unwanted touching, name calling, assault and worse as a matter of fact. Come on, we’re better than that! I witness street harassment A LOT. Not just [...]

bell hooks’ Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center includes a great chapter about the role of men in feminism. hooks argues that feminism needs to become more inclusive by integrating people from its margins (i.e. men and women of color) into the center. It is only this way that feminism will become the mass-based political [...]

Image via Peace is the New Black Did you know that women in Saudi Arabia cannot vote? It’s true, but only for four more years. Yesterday, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia made a big announcement: in the next election cycle women can run for office and vote. This is major (long overdue) progress and a [...]

One morning last week I took my dogs on a walk before work. We passed a garbage truck at a stop sign and two men stood on the back of the truck. I automatically tensed up, fearing leers or comments, but instead, they said a polite, non-creepy good morning and that I had cute dogs. [...]

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This happened few days ago in Genève. I went to a theatre, to see a really nice act and on my way there I got harassed by a bunch of men. I was walking on a sidewalk in the park, and there they were – on every single bench were sitting men wolf-whistling, gasping, saying [...]