This article was originally published in the Women’s Republic.
TW: references to violence against women
‘A woman should have been allowed to walk home.’
On March 3rd, Sarah Everard disappeared in London. A week later, her remains were found and a police officer was charged with kidnapping and murdering her. This terrible act happened as the UK and the world marked International Women’s Day and the world is still not a safe place for women.
This story is a tragedy. A young woman was snatched off from the street and murdered by a policeman, a person in authority who is…
This article was originally published in the Women’s Republic.
Contains mentions of abuse and harassment.
The former queen of Twitter, Chrissy Teigen has finally fallen from her high grace. She has been the centre of many controversies due to her tweets which targeted young girls at the time of the incidents. Teigen is a model and television personality, who has released cookbooks over the years and hosted Lip Sync Battle. Her feed consists of quirky jokes that poke fun at Donald Trump and uncensored thoughts about anything. …
Navot Papushado’s Gunpowder Milkshake is a film that attempts to entertain the audience with a female-led ensemble, who are a group of assassins that band together to protect a young girl. Part of the movie deals with the estranged reunion between a mother and daughter, while the rest is filled with action sequences that mimic Zack Snyder’s slow-motion shots. The movie seems like a knock-off of movies like John Wick and Kill Bill, and the supporting characters have little to no purpose and backstory as to how they all met. While there are humorous moments between the characters, it fails…
This article contains spoilers of the series, New Girl.
It is rare to find a binge-worthy show, characters that are unhinged and quirky people who play bizarre drinking games and healthy female friendships. FOX’s New Girl offers a kind of friendship that is charming and raw to the sitcom age with unadulterated, chaotic roommates that all live together in a loft and deal with new problems in each episode. From dealing with new love interests to wearing a “penis cast” as a result of a sex injury and helping them scratch their undercarriage, New Girl defines a kind of friendship…
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A few years ago, the August issue of VICE magazine highlighted a story titled “The Defiant Femininity of Israel’s Female Soldiers” by Mayan Toledano, an Israeli-born, New York-based artist. The series attempted to capture female soldiers in an intimate environment between photographer and subject, recollecting Toledano’s teenage years, which was stripped away as she had to mandatory service in the Israel Defense Force (IDF). The female soldiers were photographed as they walked down the streets, applying lip gloss, buttoning their shirts, and laying down next to their laptops in their beds…
Content warning: This article includes mentions of antisemitism.
During the last days of Ramadan, Israeli forces assaulted Muslim worshippers a the Al-Aqsa Mosque firing sponge-tipped bullets, tear gas and stun grenades. In occupied East Jerusalem, four Palestinian families were facing forced dispossession from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah. A few days later, Israeli forces bombed Gaza, killing generations of families. These violent acts committed by Israel is a reminder of how apartheid works, and how they aim to ethnically cleanse Palestinians and replace them with Israeli settlers. …
The Broken Hearts Gallery follows a young twenty-something gallery assistant, Lucy (Geraldine Viswanathan) who gets dumped by her boyfriend, Max (Utkarsh Ambudkar) and fired from her job on the same night. She drunkenly gets into a stranger’s car, mistaking it for her Lyft and meets Nick (Dacre Montgomery), a hotel developer, who is charmed by Lucy and drops her off at her home. Weeks later, they meet again, and Nick is struggling to keep his dream boutique hotel afloat while Lucy is jobless, broken-hearted and convinces him to curate an exhibition where people can leave their memorabilia from past relationships.
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This article was originally published in the Women’s Republic.
TW: This article contains details of rape, sexual assault, and suicide
In February, former Liberal Party political staffer Brittany Higgins alleged she was raped by a male colleague inside a government minister’s office in March 2019. Soon after, several more allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced against political staffers and politicians inside the Parliament House in Australia. Further rape allegations were made when an anonymous letter was sent to Prime Minister Scott Morrison and other Senate members detailing an alleged rape of a teenager in 1988. After these allegations of sexual misconduct…
This article was originally published in the Women’s Republic.
After the senseless killings of Geroge Floyd and Breonna Taylor last year, an uproar surged on social media. An online movement began to post information and resources on how to help Black people and communities. The power of social media spread not only in America but also in Asia, Europe, and Africa.
To show support and solidarity to the murders of Black people in America, people all around the world posted black squares. But what exactly happened when these black squares were posted? …
This article was originally published in the Women’s Republic.
TW: This article contains details of rape and sexual assault of a minor
“There’s so much misinformation. There’s so much obfuscation and so many lies. I’ve been subjected to every kind of doubt, every kind of scrutiny and every kind of humiliation over this. In the last 20 years, he was able to run amok, while I was growing up. And I was coping with this… through sleepless nights and panic attacks because of one man. For the longest time, I’ve been trying to set the record straight. …
