Recognition to regression: protecting transgender rights ended in striking down self-perceived gender identity and its expression in Pakistan
Pakistani human rights activist Uzma Yakoob writes about the biggest victories and losses of the Pakistani trans community over the past decade.
Bahraini women are not expected to do housework but have fewer other rights
How are women and minorities faring in a tiny Gulf state ruled by a conservative, patriarchal, Islam-influenced monarchy?
Haveit Collective: “When we get angry, we use it for our art”
Made up of two pairs of sisters in their twenties, the Haveit collective uses art and performance to draw attention to issues like LGBTQ rights or violence against women, still considered taboos in Kosovo today.
Petra de Sutter: “Women are conditioned not to believe in themselves”
Petra de Sutter is the head of the reproductive medicine department at in Belgium and is one of few transgender MEPs, running as a Green candidate for the 2019 European elections.
What do these women still want?*
Estonia is proud to be a digitally well-developed country; why can we not be a socially developed country?
Quinn Latimer: #metoo movement is literally driven by the media
Of course a male artist can be a feminist. Feminism is a methodology of struggle, of resistance. Most of the men in my life—my father, my husband, my closest male friends—are feminists. I could not be close to any man that was not.
Why are you so angry?
Last week, I was reading a blog by the Chinese novelist Xiolu Guo in which she pours out her anger against the oppression she faced in her heartbreakingly tough life.
Capitalism’s Crisis of Care
Nancy Fraser is a professor of philosophy and politics at The New School for Social Research and one of the most respected critical theorists working today.