Tag: Feminists

I was shocked to find out that my friend, Trey*, was stunned to find out I’m a feminist. (I mean, bro. Have you read my writing?) So, we ended up talking about it and he was confused. “Wait, you want to work?” “Yes.” “Why?” “I wan...

I wasn’t raised to become a feminist. Instead, I stumbled into it. Feminism was the logical response to a world that told me I was less than simply by being born a girl. I was raised in a Christian family. We attended an evangelical church that frequently segregated Sunday school classes an...

Recently I published an article expressing my thoughts after reading an exciting book on masculinity in the modern age. People found my article extremely wrong in many different ways. Their bias led them to believe that this article was me slandering women and praising men; instead, I w...

Torrents, currents, and ripples by Christyl Rivers, PhD This posting is very personal. To overcome vulnerability in order to post, it took me a few days to consider whether anyone out there could relate to, and possibly learn anything from, a story about suicide, mental health, society,...

I get why so many men want to stay clear of feminism. You might think that feminists don’t care about men, or when they do, it’s mainly to lift their moods by beating us up. The way many of them talk to us certainly doesn’t make feminism seem very appealing. And y...

IfI told you that recently a white feminist got very aggressive with me, and could not understand that other groups of women have their own experiences within their community, different from white women’s experiences and assumptions of what it means to be a woman, would you be surprised? Depen...

Yorgos Lanthimos’ eighth feature film tells the tale of reanimated-by-a-mad-scientist Bella Baxter (Stone) and her intercontinental journey toward social and sexual liberation. I’m a fan of most stories that center women, and in a world where too many movies don’t reach the Be...

I wasn’t raised to become a feminist. Instead, I stumbled into it. Feminism was the logical response to a world that told me I was less than simply by being born a girl. I was raised in a Christian family. We attended an evangelical church that frequently segregated Sunday school classes an...

Ifyou missed the deadline to legally access an abortion, or sadly your right to access one was stripped from you, as we saw with Roe v. Wade in the USA, would you consider going abroad for a termination? This could be a real possibility for many women around the world. France could be t...