Women and Gender

Come Up and See Me Sometime: Mae West and the Making of a Feminist Icon
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Come Up and See Me Sometime: Mae West and the Making of a Feminist Icon

Before Madonna struck a pose, Mae West struck a match.

She was the original provocateur — arrested for writing about sex, banned from Broadway for celebrating desire, and censored by Hollywood for refusing to play nice. Yet through wit, glamour, and sheer audacity, she rewrote the rules of womanhood on screen and off.

Come Up and See Me Sometime: Mae West and the Making of a Feminist Icon traces how one woman’s defiance shaped modern feminism, queer aesthetics, and the art of female self-invention.

October 9, 2025
Discover the story of Assata Shakur and life as resistance—from the Turnpike shooting to exile in Cuba, she remains a symbol of freedom.
Social Justice

Nothing to Lose but Our Chains: Assata Shakur and Life as Resistance

Assata Shakur’s life was one of survival, exile, and defiance. From the bloodied asphalt of the New Jersey Turnpike to political asylum in Cuba, her story is more than history—it is a lesson in resistance. Branded a terrorist by the U.S. yet celebrated worldwide as a freedom fighter, Assata reminds us that a woman’s place is in the struggle, with nothing to lose but our chains.

September 29, 2025
The Motherhood Mistake
Gender Equality

The Motherhood Mistake: A Cautionary Tale for Women With Dreams

Motherhood is often framed as a woman’s ultimate purpose, yet for many it becomes the greatest barrier to freedom, ambition, and self-actualization. The Motherhood Mistake: A Cautionary Tale for Women With Dreams challenges the cultural myth that children complete women, exposing instead how motherhood can consume their futures—unless entered from a position of independence and wealth. Drawing from lived experience and feminist critique, this piece serves as both testimony and warning: women with dreams must protect their autonomy first, or risk surrendering it to the unrelenting demands of motherhood.

September 24, 2025
Dignity Doesn’t Exist: The Capitalist Reality Behind the Bonnie Blue Story
Gender Equality

Dignity Doesn’t Exist: The Capitalist Reality Behind the Bonnie Blue Story

Bonnie Blue’s story isn’t about porn, empowerment, or liberation. It’s about capitalism at its most ruthless — a business model where the product is a person, escalation is the strategy, and the body is the collateral.
From £2 million a month to nothing overnight, from diamond necklaces to bloodshot eyes, from notoriety to genuine danger… This is the race to the bottom. And the end.

August 10, 2025
Gaslighting: Why a 1944 Film Still Holds the Truth About One of the Most Insidious Forms of Abuse
Gender Equality

Gaslighting: Why a 1944 Film Still Holds the Truth About One of the Most Insidious Forms of Abuse

Gaslighting is everywhere. In therapy sessions. On TikTok. In political debates. In messy breakups posted online. But most people using the word have never seen where it came from—or felt the raw weight of its original meaning.

The term didn’t come from a psychology manual. It came from a story. A 1944 film called Gaslight. In it, a husband methodically convinces his wife she’s losing her mind—moving objects, dimming the lights, and denying reality until she doubts everything she knows.

Watching the film is like stepping into the suffocation itself. You feel the erosion of confidence, the rewriting of truth, the calculated isolation. It’s not just a plot—it’s the anatomy of abuse.

Before we dilute gaslighting into a buzzword, we owe it to ourselves—and to survivors—to go back to where it began.

August 4, 2025
Blurred Lines: Bonnie Blue, Female Empowerment and Whore Culture
Gender Equality

Blurred Lines: Bonnie Blue, Female Empowerment and Whore Culture

Blurred Lines: Bonnie Blue, Female Empowerment and Whore Culture explores the sharp divide between authentic female empowerment and the commodified spectacle often mistaken for liberation. Using the viral Bonnie Blue phenomenon as a cultural touchpoint, the article examines how whore culture packages sexual availability as empowerment—while true sexual confidence is rooted in self-respect, discernment, and power. This is a call to redefine female empowerment beyond performance, reclaiming sexuality as intentional, self-possessed, and free from the false promises of whore culture.

July 31, 2025
The Most Hated Women
Gender Equality

The Most Hated Women: Breaking The Trophy Wife Trope

Why do we hate women who seem to have it all? From Meghan Markle to Gwyneth Paltrow, Martha Stewart to Nigella Lawson, this article dives into the bizarre cultural obsession with tearing down beautiful, wealthy, ambitious women. These “most hated women” broke the trophy wife mold, built their own empires, and triggered a backlash rooted in envy, misogyny, and societal discomfort with female power. This irreverent but deeply researched piece unpacks what their stories reveal about us—and why we need to stop punishing women for wanting more.

July 22, 2025
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