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 ...

Ann is on vacation this week so we won't be having our regular Weekly Feminist Reader, but let's consider this an open thread; please feel free to contribute this week and weekend's stories we may have missed in comments!

This weekly Saturday column "Ask Professor Foxy" will regularly contain sexually explicit material. This material is likely not safe for work viewing. The title of the column will include the major topic of the post, so please read the topic when...

Regular readers will have noticed that in recent months, Feministing has brought in a number of new contributors: Ariel, Jos, Lori, Rose Afriye and myself. No doubt you're getting to know them by reading their posts and engaging with their ideas in the...

Sexual harassment is a big problem on the NYC subway. Just a sad story about a young man released from prison after wrongfully serving 17 years for a murder he didn't commit. Students at UC Berkeley are striking because US Regents has...

**Also, something I didn't mention-a shout out to my undergraduate adviser at the Women's Studies Department at SUNY Albany, Vivien Ng, who I saw after 10 years and facilitated me in finding my feminist courage to speak on intersectionality. ...