Julianne Ross

On Sunday, New York magazine published a blockbuster article featuring testimonies from 35 of Bill Cosby's alleged sexual assault victims. As fate would have it, the article, which took six months to report, came on the heels of the release of…

Because I am a very serious feminist, I recently tried to go an entire day without calling groups of people "guys."  "Y'all" was out of the question (I'm from Boston), so I made do with "people" for about three hours before accidentally starting a…

Last spring, more than a hundred teenagers gathered in the auditorium of a Brooklyn high school. This wasn't your typical assembly. The teachers all left the room, so the kids could talk openly about something ostensibly on their minds most of the…

Go see this great new movie, they said. It'll be fun, they said. Yet just five minutes into the harrowing prologue of the critically acclaimed new horror flick It Follows and I was cowering in my seat, digging my nails into my date's arm and…

John Legend and Common just took to the Oscar stage to deliver what was, hands down, the most powerful performance of the night. The artists performed their song "Glory" in front of a mock-up of the infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge — the site where…

To anyone following the Oscars, Patricia Arquette winning best supporting actress for Boyhood was not a surprise. What was a surprise was Arquette's ovation-worthy acceptance speech. After speeding through the requisite list of thank you's, Arquette…

"This is a movement to say we're more than just our dresses. ... It's hard being a woman in Hollywood or any industry." With that, Reese Witherspoon stole the show at the Oscars. The actress made the smart quote while speaking with ABC's Robin…

There's nothing wrong with celebrating pretty dresses on Oscar night — so long as reporters take care to celebrate the women wearing them too. That's the thinking behind #AskHerMore, an empowering hashtag that has taken Twitter by storm in the…

Susan Sontag famously wrote, "Nothing is mysterious, no human relation, except love." She had a point. Philosophers have argued over the meaning of love for millennia, but a glance at literary history gives us the beginnings of a definition: Love…

The couple spotted me on the side of the road outside Gobabis, Namibia. Quickly pegging me as an American volunteer — I was sweaty, my thumb was in the air and I was slouching under the weight of a backpack twice my size — they took pity, and…

Great news, comics fans! There is a new Supergirl television show in the works.  According to the Hollywood Reporter, the series is being developed by Ali Adler and Greg Berlanti, the co-creator and executive producer, respectively, behind the CW's…

It's a tale as old as time, but for 15-year-old Miranda Larkin, the story took a disturbing twist. ABC News reports that Larkin, who is a sophomore at Oakleaf High School in Orange Park, Fla., was recently forced to don a "shame suit" on her third…

Despite what you may have read earlier this summer, men yelling at women on the street is not a form of flattery. Really. On Tuesday night, the Daily Show's Jessica Williams absolutely nailed what makes catcalling both frightening and infuriating…

Trigger warning: sexual assault, explicit language "Roses are red, violets are blue, be my f***ing Valentine or I'll rape you." That's just one comment former U.S. Marine Brian Jones read on a Facebook page denigrating women in the military. "It's…

Here's some fantastic news for your Friday: On Thursday, the California Senate unanimously approved a new bill that defines sexual consent as a firm "yes" rather than a lack of "no." This is a big win for anti-rape activists, many of whom have been…

Last week, Marvel invoked the ire of the Internet when it released a hypersexualized variant cover for Spider-Woman #1. The cover, drawn by artist Milo Manara, showed Spider-Woman crouching in a ridiculously tight outfit with her butt thrust high…

Earlier this week, a group of male students at North Carolina State University introduced Undercover Colors, a new line of nail polish designed to change color when it comes into contact with date rape drugs. While many have praised the young…

About 10 minutes into Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, Johnny, a young gambler with a chip on his shoulder, tells the audience, "A city's like a woman, or a casino. Somebody's gonna win." And with that, any hope that this sequel to Frank Miller and…

If you're not watching Outlander, you might want to start. The Starz drama revolves around a British World War II combat nurse who accidentally travels back in time to 1743 after touching a magic rock (it's much better than it sounds) and finds…