Jessica Jones Had Her #MeToo Moment in Season One. Now She’s Having an Identity Crisis.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jessica Jones is the hero we need in the #MeToo era, however reluctant she may be. Marvel’s misanthropic private eye with super strength returns to Netflix on Thursday—International Women’s Day—and the second season of Jessica Jones takes a markedly new turn. Having taken down the…
A Federal Court Just Made a Big Decision About Transgender Rights
Vincent Yu/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a landmark decision on Wednesday, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that it is illegal for employers to discriminate against transgender workers under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Sharon McGowan, a lawyer for Lambda Legal, a LGBT-rights advocacy group, told Buzzfeed that the decision adds to…
#MeToo Has Revived the Equal Rights Amendment
Left: Bella Abzug/AP; Right: Jeff Malet/Newscom/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Four decades after the Equal Rights Amendment—the proposal to enshrine gender equality in the Constitution—was declared dead in the water, women’s rights groups think now is the moment to finally get it passed. And they’ll be testing their hypothesis…
Elizabeth Warren Calls Betsy DeVos “The Worst Secretary Of Education This Country Has Ever Seen”
Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In her first year overseeing the Education Department, Secretary Betsy DeVos has been “a boon for for-profit colleges, student loan companies, and advocates of school privatization,” while harming public school students of all ages, according to a report released Thursday by two Massachusetts Democrats,…
This Bill Would Allow College Students To Get a Medication Abortion Without Leaving Campus
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A bill that would require public university clinics to provide medication-based abortions is halfway to becoming law in California. SB 320, a first-of-its-kind bill inspired by a resolution from students at the University of California-Berkeley, applies to all UC and California State…
Study: A Lot of Teens Are Sexting. Too Many Teens Are Sending Unsolicited Sexts.
PeopleImages/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Until now, sexting has been somewhat of a vague phenomenon, without much concrete data on how common it actually is in teen life. Experts have tried to pin down how many and how often teens participate in explicit text messaging, and have had a hard time…