WMC Women Under Siege
Revealing rape: How to illustrate a crime
Women describe their rapes from behind black face scarves in videos on our site that documents sexualized violence in Syria. We have no photos of women whose faces aren’t covered. We have few photos of survivors of rape even with their faces covered.
WMC News & Features
A Human Rights Politician in the ‘Kingdom of Wonder’
Journalist Michelle Tolson took the occasion of President Obama's visit to the Southeast Asian summit last month to speak to a stalwart member of the opposition party in Cambodia, Mu Sochua.
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Feminist Stereotypes: Aren't We Done With These Yet?
There’s been rather a hoo-ha in the press of late both loosely and tightly associated with persistent negative connotations, assumptions and stereotypes of feminism. First of all, the rather impressiv...
WMC News & Features
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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November 27, 2012 | Cheyenne T |
Body image and body standards,
Feminism,
Media,
Misogyny,
Politics,
Sports
"How Do I Look?" "Do You Think He Notices Me?" And Other Useless Questions
As our culture evolves, I find that one of the most important aspects of our evolution is technology. From the wheel to the internet, every invention has contributed to a change in the way we go about...
WMC News & Features
November 23, 2012 | Catherine Scott |
Media
Women’s Expertize Promoted on Both Sides of the Atlantic
A British journalist has launched The Women’s Room, which, like several projects in the U.S., proves that the pundit world needn’t be all male.
WMC News & Features
WMC Award Winners Assess Media Progress
Last week's awards ceremony in New York City celebrated women making a difference in the media. Marianne Schnall asked award winners how they achieved personal success and what it would take to improve women's overall status.
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The Red Menace?
When it comes to competitiveness, I am the winner. I choose to be ridiculously competitive about certain things, and my fight to beat everyone else is bloody, bitter, and vaguely worrying. Of all the ...
WMC News & Features
Behind the Headlines—Sharing the Spotlight with David Petraeus
The judgment of the media falls unevenly on the primary players in the soap opera that has engulfed the nation, as a WMC co-founder explains in this commentary broadcast earlier today on Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan.
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A Boob In My Bonnet
In the United Kingdom (where I live), there is a daily national tabloid newspaper called The Sun. In it's own words, The Sun provides readers with "the latest news and features - Showbiz, babes, celeb...
WMC News & Features
Girls Impact the World Film Festival—A Forum for Social Change
A four-women collaboration hopes to harness the creativity of young women around the world, empowering them to address concerns central to their lives.
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Phyllis Schlafly: Groundbreaker?
For today’s young feminists, the name Phyllis Schlafly may be totally unfamiliar; if anything, it triggers a distant memory of a footnote in an AP US History textbook. Those activists who lived and fo...
WMC News & Features
Election Coverage Falls Short on “Women’s Issues”
The mainstream media misses the complexity of women’s lives in representing what’s important to women voters. The author (left) calls for a far more nuanced public conversation.
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Female Bodies and Positive Rhetoric
I recently came across a great article over at Healthy Is The New Skinny. I love it not just because it celebrates Christina Hendricks as one of the few contemporary celebrities who has healthy amount...
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On Cougars, Catfights and Cows
Fox, cow, bitch, vixen, cougar, whale, chick. What do these terms have in common? They refer to animals. Anything else? They also refer to women.
As someone who learned to speak English as a second l...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Kimbra
New Zealand pop singer Kimbra is a soulful vocalist with a bent toward jazzy R&B and indie rock-influenced dance music. Born Kimbra Johnson in Hamilton, New Zealand, Kimbra first began taking guit...
WMC News & Features
Australia's Leader Meets Sexist Attacks Head On
Misogynist political talk has become a national issue in Australia after Prime Minister Julia Gillard confronted the Opposition leader for participating in sexist dialogue that this commentary's author had recently helped document.
WMC News & Features
Why Teens’ Attitudes Matter
WMC contest winner Adora Svitak today delivers the Girls’ State of the Union Message at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Here she investigates what teens really think about sex.
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Ladies Abound On The Small Screen--But Not Behind It
Mindy Kaling, breakout star of the Emmy-winning TV show, The Office, garners a lot of attention for her wit and comedic timing as Kelly Kapoor, Dunder Mifflin’s token mean girl and general hot mess. E...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Louise And The Pins
Armed with her pin-up curls, husky tones and wistful melodies, Louise Hull is bringing a touch of classic 50s glamour to the world of the singer-songwriter.
Add to this a splash of Johnny Cash, a fli...
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Building A National Curriculum for Future Feminists
Education is the key to success. And if we want the feminist movement to be successful, we need to educate people on the matter. My dream is for feminism and feminist theory to be a mandatory national...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Angel Taylor
Angel Taylor is a pop singer-songwriter, born March 20, 1988, based out of the Los Angeles area. Angel Taylor’s debut album, entitled Love Travels was released on iTunes on March 31, 2009 through Awar...
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September 28, 2012 | Julie Zeilinger |
Feminism,
Gloria Steinem,
Media,
Politics,
Violence against women
Saturday Vids: Gloria Steinem on Rush Limbaugh
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Dear Disney/Pixar
I have seen movies that made me feel lousy, like I didn’t measure up to some impossible standard of beauty, or grace, or humor. I have seen movies that make me long to be pretty, to be elegant, to be ...
WMC News & Features
Filmmaker Explores India's Complex Identity
In "The World Before Her," Nisha Pahuja looks at the extremes of India's evolving notions of gender.