“Gray rape”: a term popularized by conservative writer Laura Sessions Stepp and passionately contested and dissected by feminists everywhere. It’s the idea that, since women have been able to claim their own sexuality and have casual sex with fewer consequences, the lines of rape get blurrier and blurrier. Now, there were many good rebuttals to [...]

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…so if you’re hurtin’ for cash, win a copy of Girldrive from M.I.S.S. All you have to do to enter is comment under the review about what feminism means to you. Oh, and stay tuned for an upcoming video interview I did for them–it treads on some unfamiliar ground. Speaking of San Francisco media, Girldrive [...]

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Note: Maya is a feminist blogger who caught my attention when she wrote a smart-ass response to all the hookup culture hubbub of the other week. Here, she defends 27-year-old feminist Twitter-activist Angie Jackson, who live-tweeted her abortion a few weeks ago to demystify and deshame the procedure (check out one of Angie’s YouTube videos [...]

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Starting today, the documentary “Very Young Girls” will be airing on Showtime until 4/17. From the GEMS website (an amazing organization in NYC serving girls and young women who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking): “Very Young Girls” is an expose of human trafficking that follows thirteen and fourteen year old American girls [...]

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The Sexist’s Amanda Hess went around and asked (what looks like) twentysomething DC dudes about birth control, and the results are hilarious/terrifying: they often don’t know shit. My favorite is when a guy gets asked about the birth control pill and he says this: “I guess that’s the one I have most indirect experience with, [...]

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Note: This is guest blogger Lachrista’s second guest post. Have a great idea for a guest series? Email me at nona@girl-drive.com. I didn’t realize I was intelligent until college; even then, however, I still had my doubts. In third grade I was diagnosed with a learning disability. According to LD Online, “Fifteen percent of the [...]

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Today is International Women’s Day, a holiday started in 1911 largely by Clara Zetkin, who pushed for it after a second International Conference of Working Women was held in Copenhagen. In my daily existence, I deal on a strictly local basis. My job as a reporter confines me to five towns in the Chicago suburbs. [...]

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The ladies from Seal Press and I took to the Berkeley streets last week, asking people to say the first word that came to their mind when they heard: “choice” “movement” “man” “woman” and, finally, “feminist.” The idea was to distill the concept of “Girldrive” down to one word, and also get some guys’ opinions [...]

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Any good blogger might have done this yesterday, but better late than never. I’ll be doing two readings in the Bay Area today and tomorrow–stop by if you’re around! Berkeley reading: When: TONIGHT, March 4th, 7:30 p.m. Where: Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley What: I will be signing copies and reading from Girldrive, including [...]

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After I found this gem today, I decided to give a little blog love to a complex 15-year-old we all knew and loved: Angela Chase. Anyone who knows me is probably surprised that this blog post hasn’t shown up earlier. I am lightweight obsessed with My So-Called Life, I’ll be the first to admit it. [...]

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