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WMC Climate
February 15, 2024 | Lauren Wolfe | Environment
Sri Lankan Women Are Facing Domestic Violence Because of Climate Change

Mental health challenges are associated with the effects of climate change, such as increasing temperatures, trauma from extreme events, and loss of livelihoods and culture. It’s not much of a leap to realize that women are going to face violence from men in such a pressure cooker.

WMC News & Features
February 15, 2024 Media
Vox’s ‘Outsider’ Editor-in-Chief Aims to Make Change on the Inside

This is the fourth in a series of interviews with women journalists of color excerpted from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “Women of Color in U.S. News Leadership 2023.”

WMC FBomb
February 15, 2024 | Lucile Cerulean | Feminism
Resisting Empathy Burnout

Most people probably don’t spend their days imagining what it’s like to be other people, but should we?

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February 14, 2024 | Isabella Poppe | Violence against women
Julieta Hernández and the Right for Women to Travel Alone

Protests in response to Hernández’s murder were carried out in more than 70 cities in Brazil and in other parts of the world after her death.

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February 13, 2024 | Minna Most | Feminism
Let's Talk About Sex in School

The Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling didn’t only impact me as a person who could get pregnant but also because reproductive rights were central to my existence.

WMC Live
February 11, 2024
WMC Live #431: The Handmaiden of the Holy Man, Part 2. (Original Airdate 2/11/2024)
Robin continues her series, Fables for Grown Ups, reading the final section of a story from her book Parallax, published by Spinifex Press.
WMC Live
February 11, 2024 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #431: The Handmaiden of the Holy Man, Part 2. (Original Airdate 3/11/2024)
Robin continues her series, Fables for Grown Ups, reading the final section of a story from her book Parallax, published by Spinifex Press.
WMC Women Under Siege
February 05, 2024 | Melanie Sauter | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Compromised Compassion: Sexual Violence in the Humanitarian Aid Sector

The global attention of the #MeToo movement prompted the aid sector to acknowledge its own #AidToo crisis, but, half a decade later, the spotlight has dimmed, and sadly, the aid sector has seen minimal substantive changes.

WMC Live
February 04, 2024 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #430: The Handmaiden of the Holy Man, Part 1. (Original Airdate 2/4/2024)

Robin continues her series, Fables for Grown Ups, reading a two-part story from her book Parallax, published by Spinifex Press.

WMC Climate
February 01, 2024 | Zikora Ibeh | Environment
Respect for Democracy — and Women — Is Required to Solve Climate Change

A crucial but less discussed aspect is the role of democratic freedoms — free speech, assembly, and access to information — in shaping climate justice and solutions.

WMC News & Features
January 31, 2024 | Susan Buttenwieser | Health, Politics
Abortion Amendments Proliferate on 2024 State Ballots

Advocates are finding that in many states, ballot initiatives are an effective way to restore, protect, or expand abortion rights and access. At least 10 states will see abortion questions on their ballots this year.

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January 30, 2024 | Matteson Epstein | Politics
Why “Tampon Tax” Repeal Could Find Bipartisan Support

One gender-related issue that Republican caucusgoers seemed to align with liberals on? The “tampon tax.”

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January 29, 2024 | Riya Janardhan | Feminism
Women Are the Indian Space Agency’s Secret Weapon

The successful landing of Chandrayaan-3 has put India in an exclusive group of nations that have safely landed probes on the Moon.

WMC Live
January 28, 2024 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #429: The Child Who Could Read Rivers. (Original Airdate 1/28/2024)
Robin continues her series, Fables for Grown Ups, reading a new story from her book Parallax, published by Spinifex Press.
WMC Women Under Siege
January 24, 2024 | Lorela U. Sandoval | International
Errand Girl No More: A Former Abu Sayyaf’s Way Out

It may surprise many that women like Farida — who once dreamed of being a nurse — would join a violent extremist group, but their reasons are varied and complex. And it takes a holistic state response not only to stop them from joining but also to pull them out.

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January 24, 2024 | Anika Sapra | Feminism
Family Heirlooms

With every generation, whether through leaps, bounds, or the smallest of steps, women of color push the parameters as far as they can, terrifying their mothers, who are fearful of what they will face as they do so.

WMC News & Features
January 24, 2024 Media
Following Other Black Pioneers in Journalism: A Conversation With Leona Allen Ford

This is the third in a series of interviews with women journalists of color excerpted from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “Women of Color in U.S. News Leadership 2023.”

WMC Live
January 21, 2024 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #428: The List Keeper. (Original Airdate 1/21/2024)
Robin continues her New Year's feature with a reading of her own short fiction fitting the date— “The List Keeper,” from her book Parallax published by Spinifex Press.
WMC News & Features
January 19, 2024 | Carla Hay | Arts and culture, Media
‘True Detective’ Returns With Women-Centered Story, Featuring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis

Foster, Reis, and show runner Issa López shared their thoughts on the critically acclaimed season, which marks Foster’s return to series television.

WMC News & Features
January 16, 2024 | Janet Dewart Bell | Free Speech
Songs of Truth, Inspiration, and Rebellion: Black Women’s Speeches From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

A new book, “Blackbirds Singing,” offers a collection of speeches and quotations from African American women who have fought back against their words being distorted, trivialized, and ignored.

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January 16, 2024 | Sarah Weichsel | Sports
Finding Empowerment Through Boxing

For me, what began out of curiosity and the search for a good workout blossomed into something that has encouraged me to grow more confident and demand more of myself than I thought possible.

WMC Live
January 14, 2024 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #427: New Year, New Approach. (Original Airdate 1/14/2024)
Robin goes into "Refresh" in computer mode, starting 2024 reading a new little gem of her own fiction, "The Embodiment" from her book Parallax.
WMC Women Under Siege
January 12, 2024 | Sara Cincurova | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Sex for Aid: The Ongoing, Invisibilized Sexual Exploitation of Ukrainian Women

After nearly two years since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the unchecked exploitation of Ukrainian women abroad — who are still displaced in different European countries, as well as internally, in Ukraine — is poised to create a crisis of sexual abuse and sex trafficking.

WMC FBomb
January 11, 2024 | Ifeoma Okwuka | Body image and body standards
The FDA’s Proposed Ban on Hair-Straightening Products Containing Formaldehyde is a Step in the Right Direction

Black women are especially vulnerable to harm derived from hair styling practices.

WMC News & Features
January 10, 2024 Media
‘Working for [Indigenous Media] Is Like Coming Home’: A Conversation With Karen Lincoln Michel

This is the second in a series of interviews with women journalists of color excerpted from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “Women of Color in U.S. News Leadership 2023.”

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