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 ...

We often chronicle the overt hate mail we get, but those of us with email addresses ending in "@feministing.com" are also regularly inundated with email from PR shops who are under the impression that, because a large percentage of our readers are...

It's pre-election season in California! Monday, California's second-most prominent gay marriage advocate, the Courage Campaign, backed away from its previous support of a 2010 repeal of Proposition 8 via press release: The Courage Campaign today...

I'm not a runner. Never really have been. I played basketball and lacrosse in high school, did cartwheels on the soccer field as a kid, and yes, had one very sad season as a hurdler on the junior high track team (oh, poor 7th grade Courtney and those...

If you use condoms, you won't be raptured. Via Barefoot and Progressive. New York Magazine asks how pro-choice America really is. Bad virginity advice from Dear Abby. Sign up to phone bank against the Stupak amendment A Florida...

The New York Senate just voted down a bill that would have legalized same sex marriage. I've never been more ashamed to be a New Yorker. The bill was defeated by a decisive margin of 38 to 24. The Democrats, who have a bare, one-seat majority, did...