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WMC Women Under Siege
December 06, 2012 | Lauren Wolfe | International, Media, Violence against women
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 Women Under Siege
December 05, 2012 | Lauren Wolfe | International, Violence against women
Rape is shredding Syria's social fabric
A woman approached me as I was rushing toward the D.C. Metro after giving a talk on rape in Syria last month. She asked in a low voice if she could share some information. She had DVDs, she said. On them were testimonies of Syrian women who'd been raped; in particular, a mother, a daughter and a sister all in one family.
WMC FBomb
December 04, 2012 | Amanda P | Education, Feminism, Violence against women
On Learning More About Sexual Harassment
This past summer, I wrote about street harassment and highlighted my own as well as my friends' experiences concerning this matter. Since then I have learned, grown and have more to say on this matter...
WMC News & Features
December 04, 2012 | Michelle Tolson | International, Media, Politics
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.
WMC FBomb
December 02, 2012 | Sophie R | Feminism, Media, Misogyny, Politics
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 Live
December 01, 2012 | Dázon Dixon Diallo, Paula Donovan, Ursula K. Le Guin | Misogyny, Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #15: Ursula K. Le Guin, Dazon Dixon Diallo, Paula Donovan. (Original Airdate 12/1/2012)
Robin debunks the phrases “death tax” and “tax relief.” On World AIDS Day, Dazon Dixon Diallo and Paula Donavan discuss the impact of AIDS and HIV on women in the U.S. and the world; SPECIAL GUEST major American author Ursula K. Le Guin.
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.
WMC Women Under Siege
November 29, 2012 | Michele Lent Hirsch | International, Violence against women
Does the term ‘ethnic cleansing’ matter?
You, as a reader, may not care about the behind-the-scenes debates over word choice, grammar, and punctuation that get journalists like me riled up. But readers and reporters alike are caught in an unusually public semantics discussion this week now that The Associated Press’ stylebook editors have announced that they’re dropping certain words.
WMC News & Features
November 29, 2012 | Lys Anzia | International, Politics, Violence against women
Living in the Path of Drones
Pakistani women and U.S. peace actives agree: U.S. military drone strikes must stop, writes Lys Anzia of WNN - Women News Network.
WMC FBomb
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 26, 2012 | Alice Laurel Driver | Arts and culture, International, Violence against women
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.
WMC FBomb
November 25, 2012 | Mareike S | Feminism, Health
Buying Condoms
I guess the title already gives you a good idea what this post will be about, but bare with me while I explain how exactly I got to writing this post and chose this title. You could say I'm a grown w...
WMC Women Under Siege
November 25, 2012 | Michele Lent Hirsch | Politics, Violence against women
How one (female) CIA operative would fix our wars
Nada Bakos isn’t allowed to share most of what she learned in the CIA. But after nearly 10 years of working with classified intelligence, she can point squarely to one unfortunate lesson: Rape is used globally as a tool of war, and the United States tends to ignore it.
WMC Live
November 24, 2012 | Kathy Najimy, Sunny Clifford, Nora Pouillon | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #14: Kathy Najimy, Sunny Clifford, Nora Pouillon. (Original Airdate 11/24/2012)
Robin defends Susan Rice from John McCain, and speaks with actress Kathy Najimy on feminist comedy; South Dakota park ranger Sunny Clifford on the documentary "Young Lakota;" and chef Nora Pouillon about “certified organic” food.
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
November 20, 2012 | Marianne Schnall | Arts and culture, International, Media, Politics
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.
WMC FBomb
November 18, 2012 | Georgia L | Feminism, Health, Media, Misogyny
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
November 17, 2012 | Robin Morgan | Media, Politics
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.
WMC Live
November 17, 2012 | Yifat Susskind, Carol Adams, Luvvie Ajayi, Lisa Ling, Laura Ling | Politics, Robin Morgan, Violence against women
WMC Live #13: Lisa Ling & Laura Ling, Carol Adams, Luvvie Ajayi, Yifat Suskind. (Original Airdate 11/17/2012)
Robin’s fiery take on the Petraeus scandal. Yifat Suskind about MADRE's safety campaign; Carol Adams on the sexual politics of meat; and three WMC Award honorees—Social Media Award-winner Luvvie Ajayi, and news sisters Lisa and Laura Ling.
WMC News & Features
November 16, 2012 | Kristal Brent Zook | Education, Girls, Violence against women
Of Fantasy Sluts and Real-Life Survivors
In fighting sexual violence, says the author, school administrators need to be proactive and help the students themselves change the cultural environment.
WMC FBomb
November 15, 2012 | Wagatwe W | Feminism
Soapbox's Feminist Camp
A few years ago I signed up for a Tumblr account, but I had no idea what it was and I only registered because it seemed like the “right thing to do” if you’re into social media. Years later, I can a...
WMC Women Under Siege
November 15, 2012 | Lauren Wolfe | International, Violence against women
What the UK can do to stop sexualized violence in Syria
I twisted around in the passenger-side seat in a red compact to Heathrow yesterday to trade ideas with a colleague. In the back of the car was Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, the executive director of the International Civil Society Action Network. We wondered aloud whether our discussion on Syria in the last few days at Wilton Park, a stygian but elegant castle on the English South Downs, might have any real-world impact.
WMC FBomb
November 13, 2012 | Sophie R | Body image and body standards, Feminism, Media, Misogyny
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
November 13, 2012 | Amanda Quraishi | Arts and culture, Feminism, Girls, Media
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.
WMC Women Under Siege
November 12, 2012 | Louise Hogan | International, Violence against women
History repeats itself in Sudan
Jalila Khamis Koko and Nadia Teia Kafi are just two of the thousands of victims of Sudan’s war against the people of South Kordofan, which has seen starvation used as a method of warfare, the bombing of civilian targets, and the employment of rape as a weapon. Especially startling is how sexualized violence in South Kordofan mirrors the destruction we’ve already seen in Darfur.
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