Tag: Feminism

This First Transgender Doll Aims to Educate Kids About Gender Identity

To an adult, a child's toy may appear to be nothing but a colorful piece of plastic that clutters the lounge room floor. But in reality, a simple toy can be an incredibly powerful educational tool for the young minds that engage with them. That's why a toy manufacturer in Canada has developed Sam, the world's first transgender doll. Sam is designed to educate, not...

This New Digital Urn Makes us Approach Death in a Radically Different Way

The traditions of burial and cremation after death are near universal practices that have come to be recognized as fundamentally human signs of respect for our dead. We have buried our dead for over 100,000 years and traditions of cremation stretch back 20,000 years; these are ancient signals of love, empathy, and belief in afterlife utterly unique to our species and culture. However, as...
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As the #MeToo Hashtag Floods Social Media, Some Stay Awfully Quiet: Men

The number of tweets, Facebook statuses and Tumblr blogs posts using the #MeToo hashtag to give accounts of sexual harassment, violence and abuse is...

How King Beat the Men and Changed Women’s Sports Forever

On the evening of August 31st 2017 at the USTA National Tennis Center, Billie Jean King was wearing a grape colored blazer with matching...