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#guestpost: Why Gigi Hadid is my new #FemHero – @hollykwhitman

Want to know why Gigi Hadid is my new feminist hero? Because she showed a healthy respect for her own personal space and fought back against someone who threatened it. Gigi and her sister were recent...

#womensstories: “I was travelling in Europe and drinking at a bar with a group of people…”

I was travelling in Europe and drinking at a bar with a group of people I had just met. One guy invited me over to his place for the night, and I said ‘no’. He said it wasn’t very Canadian...

#womensstories: “I was 18 and working as a waitress at a chain restaurant…”

I was 18 and working as a waitress at a chain restaurant. He was twenty [or more] years my senior and working in the kitchen.He took an interest in me, and by that, I mean that when I talked to him, h...

#womensstories: “A friend of mine asked me to be his girlfriend…”

A friend of mine asked me to be his girlfriend. I told him I would think about, talked about it with my mom, and decided I didn’t want to be in a relationship in middle school. He whispered ‘Bitch’ in...

#womensstories: “I decided to have an abortion, as I had decided long ago, as a last resort.”

It was a Saturday. I think that I walked all the way home from San Francisco General to Church and 26th. For once, I didn’t care how I got home and how long it would take. I walked dazed through the f...

#research: The worst breastfeeding initiative I’ve ever come across

Heard this yesterday morning. Nearly fell off chair. As cynical and manipulative initiatives go, this ticks several boxes.“It adds insult to injury that the scheme is being tried out among “disadvanta...