Jessica Valenti

As the focus last week turned to Barack Obama’s choice of running mate his other crucial partner continues to show that the Democratic nominee isn’t t

It’s official. Americans won’t be inaugurating a woman president next January. From a feminist perspective it’s hard not to feel a bit defeated.

Growing up in New York City, I took the subway to school like most of my peers. I remember not quite understanding, as a 13-year-old, the looks I received from men my father’s…

In a culture where one-night stands, reality porn and Playboy logos on kids’ stationery have all become shrug worthily normal, it takes quite a leap of imagination to be sexually…