Prin’s Links for Social Work Students blog posted our write-up of the WMC’s Progressive Women’s Voices program. Check it out here. Thanks for the post!
Also, keep in mind that the application deadline for the next PWV class is June 1, 2009. For more information and to apply, click here.
This Gawker post about Stephen Morgan, who stalked and murdered his ex, Johanna Justin-Jinich, at a Wesleyan University bookstore, is totally offensive. This man stalked and murdered his ex-girlfriend on her campus. A line like “and he ruined the Spring Fling” belittles this tragedy.
The vast majority of women murdered are murdered by their romantic partners, [...]
New research from Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and the Stanford School of Medicine, led by researcher Sophia Yen, MD and specialist in adolescent health, reports that many of the 35 most trafficked websites that tell teens about sexual health are often full of errors and omissions. Myths about topics like birth control, STDs, and Pap [...]
April 23, 2009 – 12:27 pm
Broadcasting & Cable reported today that the FCC has named 30 members to its Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age, including 12 women:
Jenny Alonzo, Mio.TV
Maria E. Brennan, American Women in Radio and Television
Kathy Brown, Verizon
Toni Cook Bush, Virgin Mobile
Debra Lee, BET Holdings, Inc.
Jane Mago, National Association of Broadcasters
Karen K. Narasaki, Asian [...]
April 23, 2009 – 11:33 am
In a short video about the DAWN Media Group in Pakistan, Amber Saigol talks about the progression of DAWN, from their flagship newspaper, to radio, and more recently television. Saigol addresses the history and goals of the group, including the important perspective that DAWN offers as a national and potentially regional news source and the [...]
April 21, 2009 – 12:38 pm
There are no women included in the U.S. State Department’s “New Media Technology” delegation in Iraq, an initiative aimed at helping the country effectively use new media as it rebuilds. Nine social media executives are traveling on the delegation (thanks to PWVer Lorelei Kelly for the tip!):
Jared Cohen, a member of the Secretary of State’s [...]
The Association for Women in Sports Media (AWSM) has requested that the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) take action regarding the misogynistic comments made by president Dana White in a video blog about reporter Loretta Hunt.
As reported in the LA Times, AWSM president Jenni Carlson commented in a written statement that the UFC’s silence on the [...]
Last week, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White launched a homophobic and misogynistic rant against reporter Loretta Hunt in a video blog, which was in response to a Sherdog.com article Hunt wrote about fighter managers and agents being banned from backstage at UFC events. White may disagree with Hunt’s report, but the sexist manner [...]
March 30, 2009 – 11:38 am
Fire In the Belly – New Series on Reproducitve Rights at Feministing
Responding to talk about passing the reproductive rights torch and the lack of “fire in the belly” among the younger generation to take up the struggle, Feministing has teamed up with the National Network of Abortion Funds to answer the challenge posed by Debra [...]
March 23, 2009 – 12:28 pm
The Paley Center for Media, NYC is screening “Frontrunner,” a documentary about Dr. Massouda Jala’s run for President of Afghanistan in 2004. Dr. Jalal’s courageous candidacy inspired hundreds of Afghani women to run for parliament a few months later. However, recent reports of increased insurgent violence raise questions about the stability of Afghani democracy, and [...]
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