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Gangsta Boo Reviews Azealia Banks, MIA, Iggy Azalea, Brooke Candy, and More

Gangsta Boo embodies a lot of what is desperately missing in the rap game right now. So, I invited her to the VICE offices to sit together and watch some music videos by some of the hottest lady rappers out today. Full story

I Spent the Weekend Watching Topless Feminists Piss Off Neo-Nazis

Last Friday, I took the Eurostar from London to Paris to meet the topless feminist protest group Femen. Originally based in the Ukraine, the organization has since spread out across the world. The idea was to film the buildup to Femen's next protest, but I didn't find out quite w… Full story

A Feminist Non-Sports Fan on the Mike Rice Case

Most people are outraged about Mike Rice’s actions. However, there are some, both fans and media, who have asked the question, “Why didn’t the players report him?” Full story

Obseshes

Feminist Fatigue

Feminist fatigue, the kind of philosophical sleepiness that sweeps through me/you/everyone when there is too much to say no to and is something I have felt for years and years, in waves. Not nice warm ocean waves like in Florida but, like, 'The French Lieutenant’s Woman' waves… Full story

I Was Raped—and the Police Told Me I Made It Up

Wilbur Brown opened the door to the gas station with cellophane wrapped around his fingers. He forced Sara out in front of the station, where he made her perform oral sex on him, while holding his pistol against her head. There were no security cameras. He then went back inside w… Full story

You’re a Pussy if You Think There’s a War on Men

Some traditionalists are "pissed off" about "women not being women" now because decades ago, lazy men didn’t have to worry about talented women taking their jobs. Now that women can dictate the terms of relationships and don’t need to latch onto a man as soon as possible, they ar… Full story

Atheism - Sexism = Atheism +

Sometimes being a lady atheist can put you in close proximity with “enlightened” male unbelievers who make rape jokes because, well, there’s no God to punish them. Atheist blogger Jennifer McCreight set up an online forum that fights that kind of ignorance called “Atheism+.”… Full story

Li'l Thinks

Me Vs. “Me”

Disassociative identity politics is when anyone decides to cast a Hail Mary vote, maybe on the basis of likability or on some imagined basis of a very different Future Me or something, thus avoiding the participatory requirement of their minitribe in the most essential moment of Full story

A Pussy Riot of Their Own

If you don’t know already, the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot have been held without bail by the authorities in Moscow since early March. Their crime? “Hooliganism on the grounds of religious hatred,” which in this case means playing an anti-Putin song in a Moscow cathedra… Full story

Fuck Fuzzy Elitism

When will these body-hair evangelists, citing feminism as their cause (so blasphemous!), realize that being a fascist about fuzz doesn’t make them Valerie Solanas? It makes them insecure screaming tyrants. Full story