Category: Media - Women’s Media Center

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January 24, 2011 | Talia | Arts and culture, Feminism, Media, Misogyny, Violence against women

When I first read this article on Experimentations of a Teenage Feminist, the first thing I said to myself was “good God.” It wasn’t a good “good God.” It was a BAD “good God.” A REALLY, REALLY, REALL...

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January 22, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger | Arts and culture, Feminism, Media

Support Women Artists Sunday: Kellee Maize

Kellee’s mother always said, she “was dancing and singing before she could walk and talk”. She started singing and writing poetry and songs at a young age to entertain herself and escape reality. ...

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January 21, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger | Feminism, Girls, Media

Saturday Vids: Kids Interviewed About Gender

*Sigh* looks like gender stereotypes aren't exactly being alleviated with the next generation. I mean, seriously, the parents who let their child wear safety goggles to the TV interview weren't open m...

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January 19, 2011 | Cherokee S | Body image and body standards, Economy, Feminism, Girls, Media, Science and tech

Get Thin or Die Trying

In outrage, my mum showed me an article in UK newspaper The Evening Standard and told me to read it. More or less, after finishing the article, I was in shock. I couldn’t believe what I had just read....

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January 18, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger | Body image and body standards, Education, Feminism, Girls, Health, International, LGBTQIA, Media, Violence against women

Beauty Pageants: What You Should Do Instead

I usually don't pay attention to beauty pageants anymore. My reasons for hating them are pretty obvious and I've written about them here before. They blatantly objectify women. If they're boosting "se...

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January 17, 2011 | Katherine C | Body image and body standards, Feminism, Health, Media, Misogyny, Religion, Violence against women

Thoughts on Victimization

In ancient Celtic myth, the goddess Macha was forced by Conor mac Nessa of Ulster and his men to race against his horses while trapped in human form, even though she was pregnant. It made her begin l...

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January 15, 2011 | Brian C | Arts and culture, Feminism, Media

Support Women Artists Sunday: Chairlift

Chairlift formed in Boulder, Colorado in early 2006 to make live music for haunted houses. Frequenting the Broker Inn on the edge of town for empty late-night jazz shows, Caroline Polachek, Aaron Pfen...

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January 14, 2011 | A. | Body image and body standards, Feminism, Media

Saturday Vids: Modern Lady on Bridalplasty

As soon as I heard about the new reality show "Bridalplasty" on E!, I knew I had to share its absurdity with other rational beings. On this show, engaged women compete in various wedding-themed challe...

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January 13, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger | Arts and culture, Feminism, Media

Snooki: An Emblem of Female Polarization

There is probably nothing that depresses me more than walking into a bookstore - to me, a sacred institution - and coming face to face with the most recent attempt of a starlet to write a book (becaus...

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January 11, 2011 | Alec A | Feminism, Girls, LGBTQIA, Media

Gay Slurs in Television

I would like to preface this entire post by mentioning that most actors who play high school students in our favorite dramas are really, really old. Though they have not yet succumbed to the allure of...

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January 10, 2011 | Cherokee S | Arts and culture, Feminism, Media, Misogyny, Violence against women

Music Video Girls: Exploitive or an Industry of Independence

UK TV Channel BBC3 once in a while produces something worth taking a look at, and the minute I saw an advert for their latest one-off documentary endeavour - "Music, Money and Hip-Hop Honeys" - explor...

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January 10, 2011 | Gloria Feldt | Media, Politics, Violence against women

Giffords Tragedy: What’s the Message to Young Women?

When an angry young man aimed his semiautomatic handgun at Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in a Tucson Safeway store on Saturday, he didn’t just critically wound her and kill or wound 19 others. He fired a shot through the heart of American democracy.

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January 07, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger | Feminism, Girls, Media

Saturday Vids: Eve Ensler - I Love Being A Girl