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Mary Thom

Mary Thom is an author, editor, and journalist who is managing editor of the Women’s Media Center website. An early and long-time editor of Ms. magazine, she now writes and consults for a number of non-profit women’s organizations, including the National Council for Research on Women. Her books include Inside Ms.: 25 Years of the Magazine and the Feminist Movement and Letters to Ms.: 1972-1987. She is editor, with Suzanne Braun Levine, of a new oral history, /Bella Abzug: How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed Off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights of Women and Workers, Rallied Against War and for the Planet, and Shook Up Politics Along the Way (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).

Recent Posts by Mary Thom

Oh No! “Sylvia” Cut From Tribune

Sylvia, Nicole Hollander’s well-loved feminist cartoon strip will no longer appear in her home-town paper as of February 8. The Chicago Tribune is going to a narrower format and decided to cut some strips rather than shrink the comics down from their already nearly unreadable size. But Sylvia fans are not taking it lying down. [...]

Swanee Hunt Tells Congress That Women Are Essential to Peace Efforts

By Mary Thom

For Swanee Hunt, chair of the Hunt Alternatives Fund and former U.S. ambassador to Austria, women must be allowed to function as peacemakers in crisis spots around the world. She testified on Capitol Hill last week, asking that a House subcommittee take action to enforce the UN resolution that calls for recognizing and [...]

Clinton Claims She Has Turned a Corner

By Mary Thom

Hillary Clinton reassembled much of her core constituency to win three of four contests Tuesday for the Democratic
presidential nomination, including the big prizes of Ohio and Texas. Barack Obama won in Vermont, while Clinton took Rhode Island. John McCain, clinching his race to be the Republican nominee, was heading to Washington to receive [...]

Middle East “Voices of Resistance”

In the displacement of Lebanese civilians due to the current conflict, women are suffering the most, said Lina Abou-Habib, speaking from Beirut on a marathon broadcast by FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavour). Originating in Costa Rica, “Voices of Resistance” began with alternating live segments in Spanish and English on Friday, August 4, and extended into [...]