tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169Wed, 06 May 2026 18:38:26 +0000womenwomen's rightsgender issuespoliticsmediafeminismhealthrepresentationsexworkplacebody imagelawviolenceworkcultureeconomyequalityliferaperelationshipsInternational RelationsThings I wantTrump Administrationadvertisementbeautybucket listchangechoiceconfidencecontraceptiondialogueeducationelectionsfashionfitnessfriendsholidaysinternetmennew yearpatriarchypower relationsprogressracereligionreproductionrolessocial networkssportstimehttp://theternalist.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Blogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-104713618838794487Fri, 14 Dec 2018 19:37:00 +00002018-12-16T18:39:08.281-05:00 I was recently asked how I defined feminism, and, like a robot, I regurgitated the tried and test "equal rights for men and women." That's a scant response at best. Feminism is about so much more than equal rights. Here's how (written off the cuff, so no linked studies or articles, and a bit of jargon here and there, but, its Friday!): 1. Feminism is also about equal value Its difficult http://theternalist.blogspot.com/2018/12/feminism-is-about-much-more-than.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-6598736021501236394Thu, 01 Nov 2018 15:07:00 +00002018-11-01T12:05:35.981-04:00 The UN's Security Council held open debates recently on the issue of Women, Peace and Security, inviting members and member states, as well as special representatives to address current issues, challenges and continued gaps. Above all, it highlighted the continued hypocrisy of nations, committing to equality and peace while trafficking in capitalism and an arms trade that is destroying http://theternalist.blogspot.com/2018/11/women-peace-and-no-security-how-climate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-1729487220633832644Wed, 10 Oct 2018 17:34:00 +00002018-10-10T13:42:39.671-04:00 A few months ago, Kesha sang at the 2018 Grammys. Dressed in white and surrounded by women in a tribute to Time's Up on Sexual Assault, her song, "Praying” was an ode to women coming together, overcoming the horrors of sexual violence and inequality in their lives and moving on. And, feminist that I am, all I could do was recoil and think: Why won’t she just stop? It is the same feeling that Ihttp://theternalist.blogspot.com/2018/10/why-wont-she-just-shut-up-hearing-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-4915268019422826254Thu, 13 Sep 2018 22:51:00 +00002018-09-18T14:02:01.885-04:00 Women learn from a young age that they will need to be shape-shifters. According to different expectations, norms and values they will have to identify and learn over the course of a lifetime, young girls understand they will need to be contortionists: molding themselves into the proper cookie-cutter shapes lest they face severe repercussions. Beyond the demands placed on girls to shape their http://theternalist.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-high-cost-of-womens-anger-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-7781627546777726906Fri, 27 Jul 2018 22:19:00 +00002018-09-14T11:12:39.546-04:00 Pakistan recently held an election. Out of a population of more than 207 million people, there are 106 million registered voters, and about 44.1% of those are women. Unfortunately, you'd never know that women participated in Pakistan's civil society, never mind in the democratic process. Taking a look at the sprawling coverage on global media giants such as Al Jazeerah, BBC, The New York http://theternalist.blogspot.com/2018/07/there-are-no-women-in-pakistan-there.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-6629104412117565331Wed, 25 Apr 2018 20:59:00 +00002018-04-25T17:30:16.504-04:00 A few days ago the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a national study on&nbsp; the 2016 presidential election. In it, the authors sought to understand the reasons behind the decisions of a prominent group of mostly white Christian male voters that had voted Democratic in 2012, but then switched to Republican in 2016. The mainstream media narrative has largely been that http://theternalist.blogspot.com/2018/04/mainstream-misogyny-is-death-sentence.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-9016528679453594157Tue, 10 Apr 2018 18:13:00 +00002018-04-10T14:16:54.936-04:00economygender issuesracerepresentation It must have been groundbreaking when little girls in Saudi Arabia saw themselves represented for the first time in the realm of international sports competition at the 2016 Olympic Games. Imagine seeing someone that looks just like you at the highest echelon of sport, with crowds cheering for you, and your lookalike is smiling wildly, bearing all your country's colours. Imagine all that http://theternalist.blogspot.com/2018/04/representation-matters-and-theres-data.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-1941317739512767075Wed, 24 Jan 2018 18:46:00 +00002018-01-24T13:54:23.525-05:00 Over 150 women gymnasts and athletes say that Larry Nassar sexually assaulted them over a 20 year period. That is to say, they are women now. The sexual assaults took place when these women were girls, some as young as 6. The staggering scale of the sexual abuse in both numbers and time&nbsp; should nauseate you. The sentencing hearing of Nassar is currently ongoing, one where young women http://theternalist.blogspot.com/2018/01/little-girls-dont-stay-little-forever.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-6593465571279417164Wed, 17 Jan 2018 15:11:00 +00002018-01-17T10:27:07.451-05:00 This is not really about Aziz Ansari - its about him and all his friends, even the nice ones. You can read the original account here. Then, lets talk about a few key questions that arise out of that account of a date night and: 1. Why many men (and some women) think this is a normal date; 2. Why 'no means no' is of no help in these situations (and by extension, why we seem to disregard http://theternalist.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-to-deal-with-aziz-ansari-and-all.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-2371432013107792678Fri, 12 Jan 2018 22:56:00 +00002018-01-12T18:03:39.741-05:00 It's not every day that I feel moved to respond to the last cries of a dying generation of women who belong ardently to first and second waves of feminism, but then Catherine Deneuve had to go and raise a cry from the dead, so here we are.&nbsp; The backlash against the global #MeToo movement was imminent. Every single woman who participated, recognized it, understood it, or know even the http://theternalist.blogspot.com/2018/01/a-takedown-of-catherine-deneuves.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-6700694963002802870Fri, 07 Apr 2017 15:56:00 +00002017-04-11T11:07:32.122-04:00 In spite of&nbsp;3.2 million protestors&nbsp;(1% of the total US population) taking to the streets on January 21st in support of women's rights, and on the 44th anniversary of the US Supreme Court ruling on abortion in&nbsp;Roe v Wade, President Trump reinstated a particularly restrictive version of the Mexico City Protocol. Otherwise known as the global gag rule, the Regan-era policy ends http://theternalist.blogspot.com/2017/04/trump-signs-paper-women-die-and-nations.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-5329129530152564893Fri, 24 Mar 2017 05:46:00 +00002017-03-30T04:57:27.493-04:00 After a short while in Pakistan, a few things are clear: in bustling Lahore, don't look out the front window and trust your driver, Islamabad is beautiful, calm and a delight, save for the traffic (again), and the brinksmanship between India and Pakistan is alive and well, although nowhere near the horrors of a few years ago.&nbsp; Those shows of force and the talks that ensue are http://theternalist.blogspot.com/2017/03/women-water-and-pakistan-climate-change.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-238828139213503584Tue, 07 Feb 2017 13:43:00 +00002017-04-16T12:24:43.471-04:00 Amidst the chaos surrounding the recent executive order on a 90-day ban on refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries and an indefinite ban on those fleeing the Syrian conflict, a factual understanding of the global refugee crisis has been lost. Courts have begun placing stays on the ban, including a nation-wide temporary restraining order that has had the justice department scrambling for http://theternalist.blogspot.com/2017/02/trumps-muslim-ban-what-is-global.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-3679706609311485620Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:11:00 +00002017-01-27T07:53:02.216-05:00International RelationsTrump Administration The current President of the United States may differ from his predecessor in many ways, but the most significant, and perhaps the one with the most repercussions, is the short-sighted nature of his decision-making. While President Obama was known and sometimes admonished for embracing Nobel Prize winner psychologist Daniel Kahneman's 'slow thinking' approach, the current President is reactive http://theternalist.blogspot.com/2017/01/donald-trump-short-and-long-view.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-1099953949134075220Mon, 02 Nov 2015 00:46:00 +00002017-01-27T07:12:06.909-05:00gender issuespower relationsrapeworkplace As Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton recently wrapped up another 11 hours at the House Select Committee for Benghazi, it has become difficult not to be skeptical of the underlying motives of Senate Republicans in their quest for what they have openly been calling their gotcha moment. After three years of unremitting questioning, what message are they really putting forth? That message, http://theternalist.blogspot.com/2015/11/women-as-liars-perpetuating-myth-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-5199981869909140695Wed, 02 Sep 2015 04:12:00 +00002017-04-16T12:24:12.780-04:00changeequalitypoliticswomen Public bathrooms are just one in a series of unfortunate examples of the reinforcement of inequality by the design of public spaces that caters to men's bodies or ignore women's needs. Public city spaces should be equally accessible, useable and beneficial to both men and women. For this to be the case, the differences between men and women must be taken into consideration during the design of http://theternalist.blogspot.com/2015/09/who-owns-public-spaces-how-city-design.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-7541536658456700718Wed, 05 Aug 2015 22:04:00 +00002017-01-27T07:12:46.699-05:00 What we watch and read invariably affects our thoughts and plays a part in shaping our opinions. The discussion has been, of late, on the effect media sensationalism and the dismal portrayals of women in the media has had on young women and their relationships, both with themselves and others, or their interactions within the workforce and workplace. Women as sexual objects, objectified to http://theternalist.blogspot.com/2015/08/women-in-movies-and-literary-sexism.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-6267839800222800382Sun, 08 Mar 2015 15:32:00 +00002017-04-16T12:25:16.376-04:00 Happy International Women's Day! In a celebration of women in work,&nbsp;the pictures throughout this post are from&nbsp;a stunning set of 39 photos&nbsp;capturing women's work around the world. Today's theme is&nbsp;#MakeItHappen.&nbsp;Today's post is on what it feels like for a woman navigating her way through some big cities in the West. It seems we've come to a point where, in the West, we http://theternalist.blogspot.com/2015/03/makeithappen-for-international-womens.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-5595506109432973585Tue, 24 Feb 2015 21:22:00 +00002015-07-27T14:33:45.315-04:00 Patricia Arquette made an important statement during Sunday night's Oscar broadcast. While accepting her golden man, she advocated for wage equality, and from her vantage point, on the Oscar stage, that's both an admirable and an important thing to communicate (lest we forget we live in 2015 year where pesky&nbsp;wage inequalities persists). There have been statements that Ms. Arquette is both http://theternalist.blogspot.com/2015/02/patricia-arquette-and-intersectionality.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-1136903346224659777Wed, 14 Jan 2015 13:47:00 +00002015-07-27T14:34:04.742-04:00feminismnew yearwomen's rights This year saw the advent of a new kind of feminism on a truly global scale. Strong women were no longer afraid and weaker women were empowered. It was the year of sexual consent accountability, where enthusiastic consent was prioritized over force or disregard. It was the year where men were held accountable for the soft war zones that cities have become for women: where street harassment washttp://theternalist.blogspot.com/2015/01/feminism-in-2014-more-than-beyonce-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-130763483018445119Sat, 08 Nov 2014 16:51:00 +00002015-07-27T14:34:19.140-04:00 I have written before on how sexual violence is a normalized part of many women's lives. I have written before on the pervasive nature of violence against women and it's daily expressions: the little indignities that pierce like sharp pins - from friends to strangers, co-workers to the media, advertisements and seemingly sweet passerby's, who 'just want to chat.' In light of everything Jian http://theternalist.blogspot.com/2014/11/jian-ghomeshi-and-issue-of-consent.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-2663773699982687697Wed, 16 Jul 2014 16:57:00 +00002017-04-16T12:25:51.863-04:00healthpoliticsreproductionwomen's rights <!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> http://theternalist.blogspot.com/2014/07/new-brunswick-denies-womens-rights-as.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-101179500335309664Wed, 02 Jul 2014 17:34:00 +00002017-04-16T12:26:19.760-04:00contraceptionhealthlawwomen's rightsworkplace I was not going to comment on the recent US Supreme Court's deeply disappointing decision. &nbsp;But then I read&nbsp;Penelope's piece, and although it too is long-winded, I stuck with it, because she argues what I've been thinking: People who don't actually experience what you're experiencing should refrain from giving set-in-stone decrees on how to manage your experience. No judgements, no http://theternalist.blogspot.com/2014/07/hobby-lobby-and-us-supreme-court-birth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-3716090585756593273Thu, 19 Jun 2014 17:00:00 +00002015-07-27T14:34:59.957-04:00culturedialoguepoliticsprogressrepresentationrolestimewomen Poverty, as we are discovering, is far more complex than financial scarcity. It is a multi-dimensional structure with cross-cutting issues that affect every facet of a person's life: from their employment benefits and likelihood of upward mobility to their health and trust in doctors, from their parenting skills to their children's language skills, from their ability to process information to http://theternalist.blogspot.com/2014/06/working-women-gendered-nature-of-time.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875615675741429169.post-8140006432214220530Tue, 17 Jun 2014 16:13:00 +00002015-07-27T14:35:18.537-04:00culturelawsexwomen's rights The Canadian government established The Royal Commission on the Relations of Labour and Capital in 1889 to face the growing criticism on security in the labour force. Too many workers were being hurt, too many oppressive working conditions were still in place, but the federal government refused to act, saying it would overstep into provincial jurisdiction. In 1914, Ontario is the first provincehttp://theternalist.blogspot.com/2014/06/bill-c-36-and-prostitution-in-canada.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0