Note to readers: I am 32, I am white, I have enough money to have a nanny and my man is a very involved father and a total feminist. But still I am just a woman. Another title that will have detractors of feminism mocking those women who, « still in 2017 », can’t talk about their…

“My problem, my dear, is that I have seen too much. And I remember too much while sometimes I should just forget. Then being a woman is different in different times. When I was growing up, before the War, being a girl meant that you go to school and you should be nice. Then when…

Gayen, Audity Falgun – a Bangladeshi writer who authored 9 fictions, 4 poetry collection, 1 essays collection and 4 academic books. I was born in such a society where a girl child is not even allowed to play, run or jump in public. I am a woman from Bangladesh. It’s a Muslim majority state. Though…

Hi, I am a leafy sea dragon, one out of around 50 species of seahorses.  Despite my name, I’m not related to horses (though I look a bit like them). Female and male seahorses are very much alike so the only way to distinguish us is the abdominal area: male have a bigger ‘belly’ just…

“The social imposition of visual preferences upon genders is the element monopolising my mind, since I am a graphic design student who dreams about becoming a competent aesthete, when woman identity is the topic of discussion. Truly, I am just an ordinary woman. Similar to the vast majority of my fellow female designers, I tend…

‘’Lots of people in my town still believed in the culture…like getting married, have children early…to me, it was different, I wanted to push up my career. I wanted to be somebody else. When I go back and I look at my old schoolmates, it sometimes comes to my mind what they would be if…

Yes, yes, I know. You humans have seen me everywhere- ponds, lakes, rivers and even at the water tank behind your home! We mallards love the waterways you make! We eat everything like you. Usually, around 70% of the food we eat are plants and the other 30% animals. But during the time we hens…

Ten years ago I graduated from a state university in a provincial town in the Russian Far East. At that time many of my girlfriends in their early twenties were getting ready for marriage and motherhood. I was thirsty for knowledge and ambitious about my career so I decided to leave my hometown and continue my studies abroad….

“I was born in silence and have stayed in silence since then. I have fought against the traditional norms of the Chinese society just to be an ordinary good person. Even though I cannot hear anything, it is not as important to me as you might think. Instead of trying to live in the world…

“I am 2 years old this year, a mid-age snow monkey. I was brought up by an aunt in my group, although most of us grew up with mothers. I have sex with the male leader, and I also do it with one of my best female friends. What? You call me a lesbian? I…

“When feminism became an international buzz word in 1975, my mother was already living it for at least three decades – training her four sons to respect girls and share in reproductive chores; educating her five girls and driving them to non-traditionally female careers; teaching her kids that independence is power; and making sure that people…

”In may, A 23-year-old Korean woman got murdered by a schizophreniac man in the bathroom, at the Gangnam station. The man who got caught insisted that he had been ignored by women. He waited 2 hours for any random woman to come into the toilet. As a woman, and as the same age as the…