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Let's Embrace Our Bodies (And That Includes Aging)
The sexualization of young girls and women begins at a very early age. But what happens when you get older? There’s a suspicious trend that starts to arise as you go from being a young adult to an old...
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Beware the Cannes Festival-Gates Foundation Connection
Women Make Movies cofounder Ariel Dougherty, now initiator of Media Equity Collaborative, calls on viewers to join a growing feminist protest against the absence of women directors at Cannes. She warns about gender bias in jury and funding selections that exists beyond film festivals.
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A Conversation with Young Author Alex Schnee
When I heard about Alex Schnee, an author and student at Sarah Lawrence college, and her recently published novel, Shakespeare's Lady, I knew that I had to talk with her. We decided to Skype about b...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: El Perro del Mar
El Perro del Mar is the musical work of Swedish songstress Sarah Assbring. Drawing influence from '60s girl-group music, church hymns, buddhist mantras, and twee pop, Assbring makes slow, sad, achingl...
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Misogynistic Ads and the Oxygen of Publicity
Retro-sexist advertising may be presented as ironic, but it features the same, familiar images feminists rallied against decades ago, argues the author. What to do?
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Women In The Kitchen: The Surprising Reality
Over the past several months, I’ve begun to watch competitive cooking shows obsessively. I mean, I don’t really know how to turn on my own oven and have never cooked anything in my life, but watching ...
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Not natural, not forever: How we're trying to end rape in war
That rape is used as an actual strategy and weapon of war goes unnoticed much of the time by the media, which tends to focus on the explosions and traumas you can show in photos or film footage. But Janis Mackey Frayer, South Asia bureau chief of CTV News, has brought this subject to her readers in a two-part series that focuses on the work of Women Under Siege.
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Oprah Winfrey’s OWN Network
OWN President Sheri Salata is optimistic about the direction Winfrey has chosen for her network, and about the potential of multi-platform programming.
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Support Women Artists Sunday: April Smith and the Great Picture Show
“I was the surprise,” says April Smith, the bonus baby her parents won late and whose moxie and dash astounded everyone she met. Today, she remains a welcome bolt: a loose-lipped, cocked-hip gal whose...
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Saturday Vids: The Truth with Hasan Minhaj
The best take on Ashton Kutcher's racist Popchips commercial I've seen yet.
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The Problem with "Hot Problems"
I would be lying if I said that while watching the recent viral video “Hot Problems” (or, to be accurate, about 45 seconds of “Hot Problems” before I gave up), I didn’t blankly stare in disbelief, the...
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My Mom and the Bearded Lady
The author's mother has given her an early exposure to a diverse collection of women, which serves her well as a writer and strategic activist.
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Why Does Exceptionally Smart = Crazy On TV?
Now, before launching into this, let me make one thing clear: I love the TV show Bones and have for a long time. I also kind of like Rizzoli & Isles, but there’s one thing that’s been irking me ab...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Polly Scattergood
Polly Scattergood (born 1987, Colchester, Essex, England), is a British singer-songwriter. She has been described as ethereal, dark, intense and quirky, while her musical style has been described as "...
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Saturday Vids: Clinton Foundation - Celebrity Division
Kristen Wiig is in this video. That's really enough.
Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Division from President Bill Clinton ...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Nina Storey
Nina Storey uses the phrase "21st-century soul" to describe her music, "because it's rooted in a soul sound with bluesy overtones," she explained to AfterEllen.com. "The music that I write is a mix of...
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Saturday Vids: The Conversation
The Conversation, hosted by Amanda de Cadenet, premiered on Lifetime this past Thursday. If you watched it I would love to hear your feedback, and if you haven't check out the Conversation's page on L...
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Going down the rabbit hole: Cara Hoffman interviews Women Under Siege Director Lauren Wolfe
What can women do right now to get involved in ending violence against women? How do you deal with feelings of discouragement and anger in this work? Cara Hoffman, author of So Much Pretty (Simon & Schuster) speaks with Women Under Siege Director Lauren Wolfe about this and more.
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Young Feminists Go Live to Protect Women's Reproductive Rights
Young feminists, whose presence in the current War on Women plays out largely online, plan to emerge from the virtual world with rallies in Nashville and other state capitals April 28.
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Girls Leadership Institute: The Summer That Changed Me
A-woo, GLI, that is my heart’s desire!
A-woo, GLI, I love it, I love it, I love it!
So goes the celebratory chant of the Girls Leadership Institute. For three weeks over the summer of 2011, GLI was m...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Nite Jewel
Nite Jewel is the performing moniker of Ramona Gonzalez. She is a composer, songwriter, and multimedia artist from Los Angeles, California, where she has exhibited a number of video and sound installa...
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Saturday Vids: Nineteen Percent on The Erosion of Roe v. Wade
This video is a few months old but I stumbled across it recently and think it's still (always) very relevant, and a good review of where we were on the reproductive rights debate in 2011. Also, I love...
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The Color Pink
I volunteer at the children’s service at my synagogue on Shabbat (the Sabbath). Every week, the kids walk around with kid-sized Torahs, some of which are stuffed toys. The Torahs are red, yellow, blue...
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Women as $ocially Aware Entrepreneurs
There are a couple of recent studies that may not be causal factors of one another, but their relationship is hard to ignore: women are more satisfied than men with the success of businesses that they...
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To "Bitch" or Not to "Bitch"
Rosalie Maggio, the author of the best seller "How to Say It," explores the use and meaning of a word front and center with a new ABC comedy.