Men Need Feminism

I've wanted to write about Robert Jensen's book, Getting Off: The End of Masculinity, ever since it came out, way back in 2007. The...

I haven't seen the whole film yet, but this documentary about a pair of twins, one of whom is a trans gal, is fascinating, including lot...

A recent discussion on The Good Men Project with Tom Matlack and Amanda Marcotte caught my attention. In the wake of the so-called scandal...

UPDATE:  Schwyzer has shown himself to be a complete jerk. Leaving this post here, however, so as not to erase the fact that I was yet one ...

A while back I asked folks to chime in about positive male sexuality (and it sounded like crickets, incidentally). Here's a site that ...

It's been a while since I did a post on men doing feminist work , but when I came across Yolo Akili, there was no question that I had to...

Of course, it’s not a problem confined to media, and it’s not just panels. The pattern extends to “trend” stories like The New York Times’ “...

Recently I ran across a new promotion from the Women's Tennis Association with a goal of increasing the fan base for women's profess...

I am fascinated by how quickly the activist Slutwalk has taken off. If you're not familiar with it, this is a pretty good summation fr...

Check out this new short documentary, City Fish , which is a finalist in an international documentary challenge that had some special rules:...

"Nyx sold her womb somewhere between Punjai and Faleen, on the edge of the desert. Drunk, but no longer bleeding, she pushed into a smo...

Last year I participated in SF Women Against Rape's annual fundraising and awareness event, Walk Against Rape . It was an amazing experi...

Jill has a great post over at Feministe skewering an article that purports to explain some problems that (straight, cisgendered) American la...

Scarlet City Coffee I don't think I've ever encouraged anybody to buy anything through this blog--unless it was to encourage people ...

Lots of us get most of our movie fix from Netflix these days. Guess how many of those movies are directed by women? Around 2%. So, some fo...

All y'all already know it's International Women's Day. Right? I wish I could write more today. But please check out one of my fa...

I was talking with a woman who works at a cafe I go to about what we each did over the weekend, and I found out that she was in two bike ra...

Whenever folks talk or blog about porn, there are always strong reactions (and lots of hits!), often overstated or oversimplified. I noted a...

This is a fascinating piece of video to watch. It's long--I recommend watching it while doing some chores or whatever, but then you won...