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WMC Live
September 27, 2020 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #326: The Debates. (Original Airdate 9/27/2020)
Robin on why and how the Debates really matter—their ancient history up through today, their “Oops OMG” moments, and their fundamental connection with democracy. Guest: Jessica Lowe-Minor, VP, League of Women Voters.
WMC News & Features
September 24, 2020 | Carla Hay | Arts and culture, Media
Women Showrunners Who Are Breaking the Glass Ceiling

In the new season of television, women from a variety of backgrounds, many using nontraditional career paths, have become first-time showrunners.

WMC FBomb
September 24, 2020 | Sophie Hayssen | Health
How the USPS Controversy Has Affected Birth Control Access

Women have never been more reliant on health care being remote.

WMC FBomb
September 21, 2020 | Isabella Poppe | Disability, Feminism, WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
An Interview With Human Rights Activist Sandra Guimarães

Sandra Guimarães is a Brazilian activist for human and animal rights.

WMC Women Under Siege
September 21, 2020 | Christina Noriega | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Surge in Femicides Under Lockdown Renews Calls for Colombia's Reckoning with Gendered Violence

Despite the government's pre-emptive measures to curb violence against women under lockdown, gender-based crimes skyrocketed during the state-mandated quarantine.

WMC Live
September 20, 2020 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #325: The Census. (Original Airdate 9/20/2020)
Robin takes on the surprising, ancient history of the Census, its current woes due to Covid-19 and Trumpian interference, and its non-inclusion of women’s unpaid labor. Guest: Maria Olmedo-Malagon, US Census Communications Campaign.
WMC FBomb
September 17, 2020 | Abigail Sanchez | Feminism
This 16-Year-Old Is Raising Awareness About Sexual Harassment in High Schools and Colleges

In 2019, 16-year-old Thrisha Senthilnathan started an organization devoted to preventing and spreading awareness about sexual harassment in schools and colleges.

WMC FBomb
September 15, 2020 | Megan McGibney | Feminism
The Group Monumental Women Wants to Break the ‘Bronze Ceiling’

On the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, the long-awaited Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument was unveiled in New York City’s Central Park.

WMC Women Under Siege
September 15, 2020 | Kristi Eaton | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Researchers Lean on Coffee Customs to Curb Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Ethiopia

A group of researchers have turned to traditional coffee ceremonies to help stem intimate partner violence (IPV) in Ethiopia and educate about HIV in the country’s more rural areas.

WMC FBomb
September 14, 2020 | Frances Nguyen | Gloria Steinem
An Interview with ‘The Glorias’ Director Julie Taymor

Taymor spoke with WMC’s The FBomb about the film and what audiences can take from Steinem’s extraordinary example.

WMC Live
September 13, 2020 | Carolyn Maloney | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #324: The Post Office. (Original Airdate 9/13/2020)
Season Premiere! Robin dives deep for the Post Office—stealth privatization plans dating from 1970, the Trump-McConnell corrupt board of PO governors, and our threatened mail-in ballot. Guest: Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Chair House Oversight Committee.
WMC IDAR/E
September 10, 2020 | Erica González Martínez | Media
Introducing WMC IDAR/E

We are proud to introduce IDAR/E, a new online channel for us to take a deep dive into telling the U.S. story, in all of its truth; to highlight voices who are asking us to look beyond runaway headlines and trending hashtags.

WMC IDAR/E
September 10, 2020 | Tina Vásquez | Disability, Immigration, Media, WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
Immigration Isn’t My “Beat”; It’s My Origin Story

Reporters are experiencing trauma from covering ICE’s treatment of immigrants. But who's talking about it?

WMC IDAR/E
September 10, 2020 | Yrthya Dinzey-Flores | Economy, Race/Ethnicity
The C-Suite Must Let Go of its Tired Playbook

The corporate sector has refused to be ahead of the curve in diversity even though we’ve been sounding the alarm all along.

WMC FBomb
September 10, 2020 | Rebone Masemola | Race/Ethnicity
Traveling While Black

I was so excited we finally made our trip happen, I didn’t think to prepare myself for how we’d be perceived in Indonesia as two Black girls from Africa.

WMC News & Features
September 09, 2020 | Emily Wilson | Arts and culture
Asian Art Museum Features Bold New Works By Women Artists

A 75-foot mural by Chanel Miller is among the works displayed in the museum's new Wilbur Gallery.

WMC Women Under Siege
September 08, 2020 | Pauline Münch | Feminism, International, Misogyny, Politics
‘We feel the responsibility to act’: The German Grandmothers Protesting the Far Right

OMAS GEGEN RECHTS, or “Grandmothers Against the Extreme Right,” challenges the revival of far-right extremism with personal histories inextricably tied to theirs and their parents' experiences with similar movements in the past against fascism, misogyny, and racism.

WMC FBomb
September 08, 2020 | Sophie Hayssen | Environment
An Interview with Teen Climate Change Activist Alexandria Villaseñor

Over the past two years, Villaseñor has become a leader in the youth climate movement, joining Greta Thunberg's school strike and founding Earth Uprising.

WMC FBomb
September 07, 2020 | Kadin Burnett | LGBTQIA
Trans Votes Matter

While many people are aware of America’s history of suppressing the votes of racial minority communities, it’s a pattern that affects other minorities, too — especially trans voters.

WMC FBomb
September 04, 2020 | Alexandra Lento | Race/Ethnicity
Embracing My Blackness

Most of my childhood was spent in small-town eastern Pennsylvania suburbs with my white mother and white-passing older brother. I was one of the only Black people in my community.

WMC Women Under Siege
September 02, 2020 | Sarah Coniglio | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
ICC Case Could Make History with Gender Prosecution

The Al Hassan case has the potential to shine light on the unique harm perpetrators commit against individuals based on their gender, which enforces patriarchal social norms and increases the potency of their crimes. It could also chart a path forward for international criminal law to define gender.

WMC FBomb
September 02, 2020 | Tharwa Boulifi | Feminism
Remembering Feminist Activist Gisèle Halimi
On July 28, Gisèle Halimi (born Gisèle Élise Taïeb), a Franco-Tunisian feminist activist, lawyer, politician, and author of 15 books, passed away at the age of 93. Tunisia and France lost a prominent,...
WMC News & Features
September 01, 2020 | Janet Dewart Bell | Race/Ethnicity
Black Like Me
Let’s get this straight: Kamala Harris is Black — and Asian. That she has chosen to identify as a “proud Black woman” and Asian is her right and, I would argue, her mission as she valiantly tries to a...
WMC Women Under Siege
September 01, 2020 | Ray Mwareya | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Miners’ Wives Take On a Zimbabwe Coal Giant to Pay Up Forgotten Wages

Some of the workers at Zimbabwe’s Hwange Colliery Company haven't been paid wages for years. Fearing reprisal if they tried to fight for them, their wives, mothers, and sisters have adopted their grievances, protesting for the wages and laying sporadic sieges at the mine’s gates.

WMC FBomb
September 01, 2020 | Kate Oczypok | Health
Two Women on the Front Line of COVID-19 on How Their Experiences Will Shape Their Vote in November

“I think it has become clear on a national level that there was and is extremely poor leadership."

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