Female vampire characters in supernatural fiction tend to divided into whore and madonna stereotypes, each with a strict set of parameters designed to curtail the potential for unfeminine destruction. But change may be in the air, as True Blood, Twilight and The Vampire Diaries feature female vampires that transgress restrictive boundaries, writes Nyx Mathews.

Throughout Eclipse, the third Twilight film, all three of the main characters: Edward, Bella and Jacob exert force – whether physical or emotional – over each other in ways that are troublingly coercive, writes Max Attitude.

Craigslist’s self-censorship of its adult services ads will do nothing to end sex trafficking, though it might make it a little more challenging to post adult ads on the site. This only serves to drive independent workers underground and force them to rely on groups that do not have their best interests at heart, writes Audacia Ray.

Scars and the mutilation of bodies are challenging and frightening for society. But while scars on men are often viewed as ‘tough’ and ‘powerful’, no such admirable qualities are assigned to the disfigurement of women’s bodies. These attitudes serve to perpetuate the myth that a woman can only be beautiful if her flesh is free from imperfections, writes Jean/ne.

Fat-positive feminism has failed to consider the many ways in which fat oppression is embedded not only in sexism, but also in racism, classism, heterosexism, ableism and other oppressions. By combining the pride of pro-anorexics, the persistence of weight watchers and the fierceness of fat priders, we will be able to bring millions of people into progressive social movements, writes Emi Koyama.

Feminists have a really bad habit of disavowing anything in their movement that makes it look bad, whether it be racism, ableism, cissexism or another –ism. It’s time to stop making excuses and address the issues, writes Kinsey Hope.

The sex positivity movement perpetuates the lie that beautiful sex equals nude bodies of thin, cis, conventionally attractive, able-bodied, white women in male-gaze-centric pornography. It’s time for some sex inclusivity, writes Meg Freeman.

The biological body and its given heterosexual proclivities is normalized as a justification for the cultural meanings of men and women, but sex and gender indeterminacy needs to become a part of a radically pluralized sex/gender system, writes Zillah Eisenstein.

The charges brought against a young couple from Queensland for taking the RU486 pill have dangerous ramifications for all Australian women, writes Samantha Campbell.

Forget Susie Orbach and her cohorts, whose ideas of fat are based in the pathology of eating disorders and body dysmorphia – it was radical lesbians who fostered the most progressive analyses of fat from a feminist perspective, writes Charlotte Cooper.