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WMC News & Features
October 07, 2020 | Susan Buttenwieser | Violence against women
The ‘Triple Tsunami’ of COVID-19, Economic Collapse, and Domestic Violence

As the global pandemic enters its eighth month, the impact on those experiencing domestic violence has continued to intensify, and services are stretched to the limit.

WMC FBomb
October 07, 2020 | Kadin Burnett | Media
Muslim Teen Actress Iman Vellani Is Cast as Ms. Marvel

Marvel Studios, one of the — if not the — most impressive names in the superheroine genre of entertainment, made headlines in recent years for their plans to add Ms. Marvel — a Pakistani-American, Muslim female superhero who first appeared in her own comic in 2014 — to their impressive roster of characters on screen.

WMC IDAR/E
October 06, 2020 | Dr. Griselda Rodriguez-Solomon aka Las Brujas de Brooklyn | Race/Ethnicity
The Latinx Othering of Blackness is Harming the Conversation on Race

If we continue to see ourselves outside of Blackness, we risk becoming the ball and chain of the anti racism movement.

WMC Live
October 04, 2020 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #327: The Electoral College. (Original Airdate 10/4/2020)

Robin grapples with the truth about this college that’s not a college or a place. Special Guest: Esther “Little Dove” John, a “faithless elector,” on being inside the Electoral College.

WMC Women Under Siege
October 02, 2020 | Ninotchka Rosca | Gender-based violence, LGBTQIA, Violence against women
Me Love You No More: The Killing of Jennifer Laude, TransPinay

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's pardon of US Marine Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton in the killing of Jennifer Laude, a transPinay, in a hotel room in Olongapo reflects the country's historic subservience to US military interests.

WMC FBomb
October 01, 2020 | Maddie Solomon | Politics
Mourning Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18, so many women didn’t just mourn the loss of an amazing person, but also the loss of a historic fighter for gender equity.

WMC FBomb
September 28, 2020 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Girls
This New Children’s Book Aims to Address Undercounting of Kids in the 2020 Census

Cravalho stars in a new video storytime session in which she reads WE COUNT! A 2020 Census Counting Book for Young Children (and the Grownups Who Love Them).

WMC IDAR/E
September 27, 2020 | Erica González Martínez | Politics
The Exclusion of Latina Moderators from Presidential Debates is a Tradition

Latinx journalists will continue to be left out if we don't change our tactics

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.

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