Feminist

Judy Chicago

[caption id="attachment_162050" align="alignnone" width="506"] (Photo: Courtesy of the artist)[/caption] Judy Chicago knew she wanted to be an artist since she was young. We're talking 4, 5 years old.

Anatomy of a feminist debate: the ambivalences of the notion of femicide

“Violence against women is a structural phenomenon that demands a comprehensive response that cannot be dictated by “fragmentary interventions driven by fleeting media sensationalism or purely formal

Catholic university allows lesbian ‘pastor’ to teach ‘queer theology’

A University of Portland theology professor is 'married' to a woman and teaches courses on 'Queer theology' and 'Christianity, gender, and sexuality' while serving as co-director of the 'Gender, Women

Top 10 Albums that Influence The Corrupting Sea

Last year, I asked a zine to publish my top 10 most influential albums. They said yes and then later declined. So, I figured I...

Clashes of ideas in Brazil between feminist movements and conservatives about legalizing abortion

In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s - Department of English

In 1982, the protests of antiporn feminists sparked the censorship of the Diary of a Conference on Sexuality, a radical and sexually evocative image-text volume whose silencing became a symbol for the

Solving gendered-harassment: a feminist framework for creating safety on Wikipedia

My product team, Trust and Safety Tools, has been tasked with building a system for people to safely report harassment on Wikipedia.1 As a woman my instinct was to first ask, how does harassment affec

Successor Systems: Lessons for Big Data From Feminist Epistemology and Activism

I discuss four data-intensive activist projects as "successor systems," discussing the political and epistemological implications of using data to advance activist projects.