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WMC Live
September 14, 2025 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #479: Why We Speak. (Original Airdate 9/14/2025)
Robin's summer sum-up. Guest: Evolutionary biologist Madeleine Beekman on her book, The Origin of Language, positing childcare (!) is why we speak.
WMC News & Features
September 10, 2025 | Shaistha Khan | Health, International, Science and tech
AI-Powered Chatbots Bringing Sex Education to the Global South

New tools are helping to fill a critical gap in information and education about sexual and reproductive health and rights.

WMC News & Features
August 29, 2025 | Susan Buttenwieser | Health, Politics
Trump Administration Moves to Ban Abortion Care for Veterans

A proposed rule change would bar Veterans Administration health care providers from offering abortion counseling and referrals.

WMC News & Features
August 21, 2025 | Shazia Z. Rafi | Environment
In Current Climate Crisis, Women’s Leadership Is Vital

Since federal support for climate solutions has been gutted under Trump, a recent conference focused on state, local, and private environmental initiatives.

WMC IDAR/E
August 12, 2025 | Juana Ponce de León | Gender-based violence
In El Salvador, Women are Paying for Bukele’s Gulags

New forms of violence have emerged with the Central American nation's militarization and suspension of due process.

WMC News & Features
August 05, 2025 | Susan Buttenwieser | Immigration, International, Politics
Trump Administration’s Latest Target: Women Seeking Asylum

A recent decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals will make things more difficult for women making claims of gender-based persecution.

WMC News & Features
July 30, 2025 | Marcie Bianco, Ph.D. | Arts and culture, LGBTQIA, Media
On Trans Rights, the Pipeline From Media Misinformation to Bad Law

A new documentary, Heightened Scrutiny, exposes the mainstream media’s outsized and extraordinary influence in the law.

WMC News & Features
July 17, 2025 | Lisa Danetz | Politics
The SAVE Act Is Part of Broader Effort to Limit Voting

The measure, passed by the U.S. House, would have made it harder for women, elderly, young, and many other groups of citizens to register to vote.

WMC FBomb
June 30, 2025 | Nandita Murthy | Media
South Asian Women Deserve Better Media Representation

I now see the representation I once revered could not be more dissimilar to reality.

WMC Live
June 29, 2025 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #478: Getting to Work. (Original Airdate 6/29/2025)
Robin dissects procrastination, and discusses poetry and writing with her special guest, the writer Sandra Cisneros.
WMC News & Features
June 26, 2025 | Emily Wilson | Arts and culture
Bay Area Gallery Places Women Front and Center

A new exhibition seeks to resist the erasure of women’s achievements in the arts and to reclaim “the rightful place of women in art history.”

WMC News & Features
June 23, 2025 | Susan Buttenwieser | Health, Politics
Three Years After Dobbs, Assessing the Damage and the Way Forward

June 24 marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Three years on, as legislatures in some states impose severe restrictions, advocates and providers are fighting to keep abortion accessible.

WMC FBomb
June 23, 2025 | Kacie Crider | Health
How Amending the ADA Could Help Those Suffering From Endometriosis

We cannot afford to force so many women with endometriosis to withdraw from work and school on a monthly basis when it is entirely possible — and easy — to provide reasonable accommodations.

WMC Live
June 22, 2025 | Gail Dines | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #477: Pornland. (Original Airdate 6/22/2025)
Robin revisits the feminist campaign against violent pornography and finds new and harrowing statistics—yet new and hopeful developments. Guest: Dr. Gail Dines of Culture Reframed and author of Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality.
WMC FBomb
June 16, 2025 | Aditi Bhattacharjya | Science and tech
How AI Perpetuates Gender Bias

One AI concern that seems less often discussed? The impact of AI’s gender bias.

WMC Live
June 15, 2025 | Kathy Spillar | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #476: Insurrectionists. (Original Airdate 6/15/2025)
Robin discusses Ms. Magazine with her special guest, Executive Editor Kathy Spillar: the magazine's reporting, tactics, strategy, and inspiration in these dark times. Robin reflects on what "Insurrectionist" really means.
WMC News & Features
June 13, 2025 | Susan Buttenwieser | Health, Politics
Update: Despite Abortion Rights Law in Missouri, Providers Are Still Unable to Offer Care

In November, Missouri voters passed a constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights. But anti-abortion lawmakers have been working ever since to find a way to ban abortion once again.

WMC News & Features
June 11, 2025 | Marcie Bianco, Ph.D. | Arts and culture, Feminism, Media
Melissa Febos’ ‘A Dry Season’: Celibacy as Self-Actualization

The media reception of Febos’ new memoir has focused on the shock value of her decision to give up sex for a year, but the book offers surprising insights about community and feminism.

WMC FBomb
June 09, 2025 | Dominique Cao | Feminism
Is Your “Type” Reproducing Injustice?

What if “your type” isn’t an unbiased, unalterable fact, but actually a socially acceptable way of reproducing injustice?

WMC News & Features
June 06, 2025
Women's Media Awards 2025 - in pictures

THE WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER hosted their 20th Anniversary WOMEN’S MEDIA AWARDS on June 5th at the JW Marriott Essex House Hotel in New York City. The WMC AWARDS were presented to outstanding leaders and champions for women in media. This year’s WMC 2025 Women’s Media Awards honorees were: Geralyn White Dreyfous, S. Mitra Kalita, Imani Perry, Erica Smiley, Jessica Valenti.

WMC News & Features
June 06, 2025 | Carla Hay | Media
Women’s Media Awards Celebrate Leaders in Film, Abortion Rights, Community Media, Labor Rights, and Feminist Scholarship

As WMC marks its 20th anniversary, presenters and awardees urge people to keep fighting against backlash and to find strength in community.

WMC FBomb
June 02, 2025 | Sara Matsinger | Feminism
Why Are Men Still Considered the Default?

Women are all too often ignored at best and hurt or even killed at worst because of it.

WMC Live
June 01, 2025 | Krishanti Vignarajah | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #475: Seeking Global Refuge. (Original Airdate 6/1/2025)

Robin reports the realities of the lives endured by women and children refugees and migrants with her guest, Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Global Refuge—herself an immigrant.

WMC News & Features
May 29, 2025 | Jasmine Heyward | Arts and culture, Media
The Complex and Authentic Women in Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’

The acclaimed film offers a vision of women characters whose strength is rooted in textured humanity.

WMC Live
May 25, 2025 | Margot Wallström | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #474: Neither Fear Nor Favor. (Original Airdate 5/25/2025)
Robin revisits the Biden presidency in light of new revelations. Special Guest: feminist Margot Wallström, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden.
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