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With the election of Donald Trump, the subject of feminism is once again very much in the news. We want to know how you feel the movement is affecting your life as well as what influence you think it’s having in politics, culture, fashion and beauty. Finally, we want to know what you think the […]

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Wearing a sheer black Maison Margiela top, vintage Levis and two arm tattoos cloned from her favourite Mark Ryden paintings, Tove Lo is a force to behold. In person, the Swedish hitmaker redefines the word swagger with the way she presents and articulates herself. The six silver rings she is sporting (including one from her […]

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Note to anyone who dares step up to Ginger, Scary, Baby, Posh and Sporty with any kind of misogynist talk: you will get zig-a-zig-ahh’d. As this rare video—unearthed from the 90s—can attest, The Spice Girls do not suffer trifling fools gladly and this video shows that the group represented feminism on and off the camera. […]

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For most people born in North America or Europe, the name Madame Bovary brings connotations of tragedy, glamour and excess—themes that dominate Flaubert’s novel of the same name. In parts of Asia, however, the Bovary name has a darker meaning altogether. For more than 100 years, it has been used to shame Chinese women who […]

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#QuoteMe: “Feminism does not mean we can’t love wearing makeup” ? Loving @BootsUK #No7 campaign starring writer #ChimamandaNgoziAdichie pic.twitter.com/J0mUnikz8W — Muchaneta K (@FashNerdEditor) October 20, 2016 When you picture the typical spokesperson for a cosmetics brand, you probably think of a model or actress — not a critically-acclaimed writer and feminist. Well, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie […]

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When The Telegraph ran an article this past summer detailing how members of the Royal Family were “very nervous” about a drama series depicting the inner life of the English monarchy, it was pretty clear it would become everyone’s next binge-watch. Or at least that’s what Netflix is hoping for on November 4, when The […]

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Injustice is constantly in our faces. It is on our screens, our phones and always just a scroll away. It is chronicled incessantly via YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and seems to rack up the ratings on TV. Sometimes the people we look up to—i.e. the famous names we follow—are actual deliverers of news. Their platforms […]

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They hail from a small farming village called Shaharut in southern Israel and sing in a nearly extinct Arabic dialect spoken by the Jews of Yemen, but sister act A-Wa (which means “yeah” in Arabic slang) have not let any limitations define them. The odds are considerably against the trio. Their music—which mixes ancient folk genres with […]

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Seaman. My unfortunately appointed last name had been my calling card since a dark day in Grade 6 health when we learned about the male reproductive system. The plethora of hilarious and/or disgusting nicknames have long followed me since high school, so when the day finally came to get married, you’d think I wouldn’t give changing […]

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I don’t remember who gave me my first Anne of Green Gables book, but I do know my life changed significantly after I read about the unpredictable redhead with a penchant for puffed sleeves. That’s why when news broke this week that CBC was creating a new version of the L.M. Montgomery classic called Anne, […]

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When I was in my early twenties, I was assaulted on a GO Bus while commuting to work. That sentence is hard to write even now, 10 years later, because for years I brushed it off as being nothing more than a “misunderstanding” – my misunderstanding. Here’s what happened: an older man, who was maybe […]

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The latest required reading for sophomores in Sweden is outside the norm—every student in the country has just received a copy of We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Nglozi Adichie. The book is adapted from Adichie’s TEDx talk by the same title—which also has a cameo in Beyoncé’s song “Flawless”—and paints a picture via […]

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