December 6th is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women here in Canada. Unfortunately, that site doesn’t have links to any of the planned activities in various cities around the country, but if you live in Canada, you can contact the nearest women’s centre, shelter for abused women, or sexual assault/rape [...]

It’s not easy for me to write this post, because it’s far more personal than we usually get on this site, but the saying “the personal is political” is a lot more than just words.
A study was recently published that concluded that feminists have healthier heterosexual relationships than non-feminists. This has been linked on many [...]

Tekanji has written a great new Feminism 101 FAQ article on internalized sexism. I think this is one of the more difficult things to talk about within feminist communities, as well as one of the more important. No individual can be unaffected by the sexist messages of our culture, and yet I often expect myself [...]

I find myself a little bit conflicted by my reaction to feminist men/feminist allies. We have a couple of great men who write here, and by no means do I intend to belittle their contributions or those of other men who are actively involved in feminist work. Not only do I think that power imbalance [...]

George Lakoff is a prominant linguistics professor at Berkeley who is reasonably well known outside the field for his accessible analyses of political discourse. In his more academic work, he details the ways that cognitive structures are set up based on series of linguistic and metaphorical “schema”. The title of one of his early books, [...]

There are two criticisms that I hear frequently when I talk to people outside the feminist community about my activist work against sexual violence–first, that violence against women is a specific, rather than a general, socially supported problem of misogyny. We’ve talked about that quite a lot over at the main site. The second, however, [...]