by Shruti Swamy
Far from a generational divide, the author, as a young feminist, finds sustenance in the ways the women in her family handled their more limited life choices.
It’s hard for me to imagine what my grandmother’s youth was like, spent in rural and then urban India. At 16, she was arrange-married to a [...]
By Marianne Schnall
Eleven years after the launch of V-Day, Eve Ensler sets out to do for girls what she did for women—uncover the truth of their experiences and create a global dialogue. Her new book is being published February 9.
In 1996, playwright and author Eve Ensler sparked a worldwide phenomenon with the debut of [...]
Monday’s show featured Racialicious and Jezebel blogger — and Progressive Women’s Voices alum — Latoya Peterson, along with media technologist Deanna Zandt, and our very own Programming Coordinator Rachell Arteaga, who heads our excellent Girls Investigate project. This fantastic team of women examines social media trends, pop culture conversations, and girls media programming as we begin a new decade, taking [...]
Check it out! WMC friend Rachel Simmons interviews teen girls on what life is like growing up in the US in the 21st Century. A Girl’s Life is a documentary that follows the lives of four girls as they navigate the bombardment of damaging media and societal messages. Don’t forget to check your local listings [...]
So she’s had some catchy hits. So she never wears pants. So she wore a jacket covered in miniature Kermit the Frogs. Isn’t Lady Gaga still just an industry darling, shocking her way up the charts? A profile in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times gave me some pause, portraying the 23-year-old pop sensation as not just [...]
WMC Video Highlights – Fall 2009. Check out the launch of our Girls Investigate program, new radio show on WBAI, Not Under The Bus and Stop Stupak campaigns, and recent PWV media clips!
Yesterday the Center for Public Integrity launched its Campus Assault Project, an initiative to investigate and report how colleges and universities respond to reports of sexual assault.
Today’s report focuses on institutional barriers that prevent sexual assault from being reported on college campuses. CPI’s nine-month investigation revealed a myriad of obstacles, from a dean’s expressed disbelief [...]
Before I began a formal investigation into girls’ views on pop culture and social media, I had a pretty good hunch of what my peers had to say on the matter. Yes, those girls on TV are too beautiful, yes, they don’t look like us, yes, we work hard on our Facebook ‘About Me’s’, yes, [...]
Last summer, Nuala Cabral joined the WMC as an A/V Intern. She contributed her expertise and skills in Video Editing and Production, which are an integral part of the Progressive Women’s Voices Training program. We were thrilled to work with such a talented and inspired individual, and we are sure she’s doing great [...]
What If? from Project Pushback on Vimeo.
The WMC’s Video Production Consultant, Leslie Von Pless, has created a short video with an important question — and the title of her work — “What If?” Applying this question to marriage equality, the video highlights our basic freedoms while asking the viewer to think about a life without [...]
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