The Hand Mirror

I've very carefully been avoiding reading any detail about the pro-rape Return of Kings hate group.  I'm sure there are lots of othe...

Content warning:  This is about violence against women. Tonight as I left work someone said to me to take care, and I knew what she meant....

Content warning:  This is a post about the tactics of an anti-abortion campaign currently underway, the arguments they make, and as such wi...

There's a new campaign by one of my least favourite lobby groups (Family First in case you were wondering), which is encouraging people ...

Trigger warning: explicit discussion of rape culture.  I understand in a week with so much victim-blaming littering our media, any mention o...

Anger, oh how often you have visited me lately, let me count some of the ways: The frequently women-hating reaction to Labour daring to...

A while back I shared the result of Women, Action and Media, the Everyday Sexism Project and author Soraya Chemaly's activist coalition...

Thanks to Maus for writing and submitting this. Readers may also be interested in an alternative set up just last night:"NZ Misogynist...

i was directed to this article at slate by someone on twitter, who was lauding it as a good defence of successful women.  i was pretty hope...

Reproduced from the November ALRANZ newsletter with permission from the really rather awesome author, Alison McCullough. The Abortion Supe...

Many thanks to Amanda from Pickled Think for submitting this guest post. Perhaps these fictional examples look like women you know about...

I used to read the Hand mirror and other feminist blogs on a semi-regular basis, without ever considering commenting. Then I read regularly....

Trigger warnings for rape, sexual abuse, violence, exploitation of power: The other day Stef and I were having a chat about the Omar Hame...

This post refers to yesterday's episode of Backbenchers and the post I wrote last night. Other than a quick (not-sorry) tweet Paul Qui...

A local radio station is running a competition to 'win a wife'. The winner gets to fly to the Ukraine and choose a bride from an ag...

doing the rounds on facebook lately was this piece from salon: In the run-up to the midterm elections, a bevy of conservative female candid...

Emma considers the pros and cons of the Boobquake shaking the world today in response to the Iranian cleric who reckons earthquakes are cau...

Via the Herald: German designer Karl Lagerfeld has waded into the debate on too-thin models, telling a German publication that no one wants ...