Poet Joan Kane, an Inupiaq Eskimo woman, received the prestigious Whiting Writers' Award. (It comes with $50,000!) "My husband jokes that he's probably the only start-up lawyer whose practice is being kept afloat by his poet wife," she said.

Just when thought you couldn't miss this woman more, we find that Bea Arthur has left $300,000 to the Ali Forney Center in New York, an organization that supports homeless LGBT youth. The center supplies a number of services to youth around the city,...

The Daily Mail says women might imagine being drugged and put at risk of rape, but in reality they just drank too much. Dr Adam Burgess, from the University of Kent school of social policy, said rumours about the prevalence of date-rape drugs were ...

This story speaks for itself. From the free Sara Kruzan action page at change.org: "Life without parole means absolutely no opportunity for release," said Senator Yee. (of California) "It also means minors are often left without access to programs...

Good news (via Matt Yglesias): Women in Kuwait have been granted the right to travel without their husband's permission. The article abolished by the court dated back to Kuwait's 1962 passport law which required a husband's signature on ...

<img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk34/feministing/rihanna-08-big.jpg" "height=350"> Really interesting choice, huh? I covered that she would be in Glamour on Tuesday, but didn't discuss that they had made her Woman of the Year....

In response to the constant objectification of women, the recent gang rape of a 15 year old girl in Richmond, CA, the unjust incarceration of Sara Kruzan and even the highly publicized violence faced by Rihanna, conscientious rapper and activist Jasiri...

A program in North Carolina is paying girls not to get pregnant. Yeah. A must-read from Lynn Harris at Broadsheet. "Feminists remain the enemy in the United States." Don't let the headline fool you... A trend is growing in Dallas where...

A little bit of good voting news from yesterday: Kalamazoo, MI has added sexual orientation and gender identity to its laws banning discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations. While a growing number of anti-discrimination...

Seems that some people are upset that one of the models on Teen Vogue's November cover is pregnant. 19 year-old Jourdan Dunn isn't visibly pregnant, but talks about her pregnancy in the magazine. The cover has raised eyebrows among some...