In November 2023, former United Kingdom prime minister Rishi Sunak gathered the world’s leading minds at Bletchley Park, U.K., for the 2023 Global AI Safety Summit. The timing of this meeting proved crucial as countries compete for dominance in the … Continue reading
Category: Gender & Sexuality
L’affaire des viols de Mazan: une plongée dans les ténèbres de la soumission chimique
Dans un supermarché près d’Avignon, Dominique Pélicot fait tranquillement ses courses, une scène ordinaire en apparence. Mais ce jour-là, un agent de sécurité découvre bien plus qu’un acte de voyeurisme. L’homme, retraité, est surpris en train de filmer sous les … Continue reading
Blood Water: A Lens on Menstruating Women in Gaza
By March 2024, the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) estimated that almost 700,000 women and girls in Gaza did not have access to hygiene products or the fundamental human right of privacy. Israeli authorities further cut off clean … Continue reading
Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These: Revisiting Long-Buried Catholic Church Abuses in Ireland
Academy Award winner Cillian Murphy stars in the new film Small Things Like These, which exposes the Catholic Church’s long-hidden abuses committed against women and girls held within the Magdalene Laundries in 20th-century Ireland. The historical drama, directed by … Continue reading
How Facebook and Meta Became Breeding Grounds for Sexual Exploitation
Excerpt: An investigation into sexual exploitation and trafficking within Meta technology.
Discussions of technological advancements such as social media platforms often center around the same set of pros and cons – connection and communication, but also isolation and cyberbullying. However, … Continue reading
Searching for Cleopatra: Redefining and Reclaiming the Egyptian Queen’s legacy
The last Pharaoh of Egypt; a living goddess, a promiscuous lover, and one of the first female leaders in human history. At least this is the story of Cleopatra that existing literature writes. However, much of Cleopatra’s identity remains … Continue reading
State of Crisis: How US Abortion Policies Affect International Reproductive Aid
It has been almost two years since the U.S. Supreme Court case of Jackson v. Dobbs overturned the precedent of a universal right to abortion as established in Roe v. Wade. Since the ruling was announced, 14 states have banned … Continue reading
Women’s ‘Empowerment’ in International Development: a Smokescreen for Neoliberal Development
International development is an industry of fads and trends, perpetually jumping at the next big thing, searching for the magic bullet that will end global poverty. Since the United Nations made achieving gender equality a sustainable development goal, the myriad … Continue reading
Seeking Justice: Understanding the Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
First Nation, Métis, and Inuit women and girls are twelve times more likely to be murdered or go missing compared to any other demographic of women in Canada. The ongoing crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and … Continue reading
The Rise of Women’s Athletics: A Moment or a Movement?
In the last couple of decades, global athletic programs have faced a true reckoning, one that is increasingly bringing women’s sports to the forefront of public consciousness. Gender disparities in sports have been so glaring that they became overlooked, with … Continue reading