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Mentoring the Next Generation of Writers
Girls Write Now, in the midst of its annual CHAPTERS readings now in New York City, sponsors pairings that can seem at first surprising via its afterschool arts program.
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Laura Mvula
Laura Mvula (née Douglas) is a British soul singer-songwriter from Birmingham. Her debut album Sing to the Moon, was released on March 4, 2013. Mvula grew up in the Birmingham suburbs of Selly Park an...
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"My Brooklyn"—Prejudice, Policy and Gentrification
In discussing two women who document a culturally and commercially vibrant community at risk, the author explores the racist policy and politics behind the onslaught of gentrification.
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A Nameless Woman
A woman is silhouetted against a blue backdrop. She is sitting down and we see her from the waist up. She is talking to someone sitting opposite her, smoking as she does. When she talks a cacophony of...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Chloe Howl
Chloe Howl is a 17-year-old musician from the UK. Learn more about her here.
Rumour
No Strings
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Angel Haze
Raykeea Wilson (born 1991), better known by her stage name Angel Haze, is an African American , Native American rapper and lyricist signed to Universal Republic and Island. She was born in Detroit, Mi...
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Showcasing Films by Cuban Women
For the first time, a group of women filmmakers from Cuba are showing their films in the United States, beginning in Los Angeles on March 8, International Women's Day.
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Rebecca Ferguson
People used to tell Rebecca Ferguson her life was ruined. A teenage mother of two children, dreams of becoming a famous singer seemed far-fetched. Motivated to fulfill her lifelong wish, Rebecca signe...
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February 21, 2013 | Tori A |
Arts and culture
Reborn
The ability to move and be moved by another person, to love and be loved, sends chills down my spine.
To feel another's emotions intertwined with my own.
The exquisite high of a touch, a smile, a mome...
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Judy Chicago at the Ben Uri Gallery
Judy Chicago is one of my favourite artists. So, when I heard she was exhibiting in London for the first time since the 80s, well, I was rather excited. The Ben Uri Gallery in London seemed like the p...
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Why I'm Rising
When I was at the 2012 NOW Conference in Baltimore, I had the privilege of hearing Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues and women’s rights activist, deliver the keynote address. She discussed O...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Claire's Diary
Claire's Diary was formed when Sophie Rae and Isadora Schappell (of Care Bears on fire), Joey Koneko, and Kiri Oliver were strolling through a meadow one day and found the diary of a girl named Claire...
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February 07, 2013 | Bindu B |
Arts and culture
My Pretty Girl, My Mother, My Devika
The very first time my father bedded
you, I wailed from the insides. Of your womb, that is. I was a
woeful little egg erupting in warning calls. My father
was the somber-faced virgin with the
hemp on ...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: KALEN
Singer-songwriter Kalen’s six-song debut EP, Falling From The Sun, is rock noir. The bruised beauty of her lyrics, her dark and shimmering compositions, the haunting expressiveness of her singing, ...
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Hollywood—Don’t They Want the Money?
The author of the annual Celluloid Ceiling report looks beyond the awards season coverage to tell us how Hollywood is treating women professionals—and audience members.
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Rachel Potter
A rock ‘n roll baby, Rachel was born in New Orleans to southern parents who connected over their mutual passion for song. Potter’s earliest memory of music was at age three, standing on the steps of h...
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The Good, the Bad, and Django
The author considers Tarantino's new film and what kinds of movies about race relations tend to get made, and released, in Hollywood.
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January 17, 2013 | Fran H |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
Feminism Is Not A Word We Use In Polite Society
They wanted to be blondes, all of them, at some point in their lives.
Natural honey or not, they believed when
Marilyn cooed, old, white male screenwriters her puppeteers,
“Gentlemen prefer blondes...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Annie Dressner
Recently moving from her hometown of New York City to the UK, singer-songwriter, Annie Dressner is about to release her newest work - an EP titled "East Twenties" (release date: April 8, 2013).
Dress...
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Celebrating "Wimmen's Comix"
An exhibit in San Francisco shows how Bay Area cartoonists made history 40 years ago.
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My Interview with Sally Ride
Novelist Margaret McMullan recalls the question she wishes she hadn't asked the first American woman in space, Sally Ride, who died July 23 this year.
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December 24, 2012 | Jennifer Mattson |
Arts and culture,
Feminism,
Girls,
International,
Violence against women
The Year 2012 Is Reflected in "Emotional Creature"
Eve Ensler's latest play on the inner lives of girls treats topical concerns for feminists today throughout the world.
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Underpaid by Law – A Waitress's Story
The author, who struggles to pay her bills serving tables while launching her career as a journalist, describes the day to day results of the federally mandated subminimum wage.
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November 30, 2012 | Mary Ann Swissler |
Arts and culture,
Disability,
Education,
Health,
Media,
WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
"Warehoused" with Mental Illness—A Filmmaker's Story
"Kings Park" documents a dark age for many women hospitalized with mental illness. The filmmaker looks to the promise of ObamaCare for a better future.
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Images of Femicide Displayed to Prompt International Action
A UN exhibit and seminar in Vienna marks a day devoted to ending violence against women. Alice Driver, whose photographs are included among the images, explains.