I’ll admit it. When I go to an improv show and I see a woman on stage, I brace myself. “Please be funny, please be funny.” Why do I do that? I’m a feminist! Why do I internalize this idea that women ...

Despite the fact that feminism is incredibly important, being labeled a feminist is still considered controversial by some people. Why? I couldn't tell you, but as these funny feminist gift ideas show ...

This past year was tough on all Americans, but women had a particularly rough 2016. That's why this holiday season, you should try and bring a little joy to the badass chicks in your girl gang with ...

I am a discerning television connoisseur, and yet when Julie Klausner first begins speaking, I find myself surprised that she’s decidedly unlike Julie Kessler, the pop-culture-obsessed, snarky BFF to ...

Friday night’s installment of Feminism & Co., the third in this season’s series at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, was titled simply “Funny Women.” But as the MCA has shown itself to be very ...

The costumes in Season 2 of Apple's "Palm Royale" are not only stunning, they help enhance the comedy and underscore the show's feminist themes. 50 to 60 percent of the costumes are original vintage ...

Speaking to University of Texas students, Liz Carpenter once described how, after graduating from UT in 1942, she headed straight to Washington, D.C.: “I had my journalism degree and my virtue still ...

SHREW! purports to tell the "true" story of The Taming of the Shrew. It begins with pub landlady Mistress Slapbottom (Tessa Auberjonois) clearing the joint of all its rowdy revelers, leaving her alone ...

On Los Angeles’s Sunset Boulevard, a street bursting with comedy clubs and live acts, lies a small theater devoted to a new kind of entertainment: inclusive comedy. The Ruby is a self-described comedy ...

It opens, of course, with an homage to Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.” A dazzling sunrise stretches over a barren desert, populated exclusively with sad-eyed Dust Bowl-era girls and their ...

The Toast — funny and literary feminist website, gleeful kneecapper of high culture, omphalos of cheerful misandry and habitat of the rare courteous and informative comments section — is closing. The ...