Chains, Charges, and Change: What The Britney Spears Story Reveals About Our Society’s Shifting Values

The recent New York Times documentary, “Framing Britney Spears,” was an eye-opener for many when it comes to the kinds of abuse celebrity women face. Conversations are happening and change is being demanded on a grand scale thanks to Ms. Spears’ story. What has her suffering taught us as a society, and is there hope for a better, brighter, and more empathetic future for our female icons? TFW’s managing editor takes a deeper look at what Britney’s story means for us as individuals, feminists, and as a society.

Women As Art: A Tale Of Beauty, Hatred, And Woman's Collective Struggle For Human Dignity

Women have been turned into statues and paintings, symbols and concepts and everything that is both beautiful and ugly in the world - Women are Art, but for millennia the pictures we see in gilded frames rarely match up to our lived reality. Join The Fem Word as we explore women, art, and the world of contradictions the two of them have inhabited across the ages.

Women Of Wonder: The Bold Legacy Of Female Creatives In A Male-Dominated World

“Creative women as we know them are a testament to the power of bold exceptions to immovable rules. The fact that they are so far from the norm is a poignant reminder that the playing field has never, in all of its long and blood-soaked history, been equal for artistic women. It’s never even come close.

As a whole, we’ve succeeded anyway.”