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Pakistani Filmmaker Captures the Lives of Iraqi Refugee Children
Award-winning journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is touring the United States with her latest film, “The Lost Generation,” a documentary on Iraq’s refugee children produced for Great Britain’s prestig...
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Eve Ensler's Spectacular Celebrates New Orleans Women
“I’ve been trying to free myself of Katrina’s grasp... With what I’ve gone through I should be just stark raving mad by now, but I’m able to go on.” These are the words of Herreast Harrison, Upper N...
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February 19, 2008 | Sara Voorhees |
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Geena Davis Forum-Searching the Cells for Girl Mice and Ninjas
Geena Davis was watching preschool TV shows and children’s videos with her two-year-old daughter when she began to wonder: where were the girls? Where were the animated girl mice, the girl ninjas, ...
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From Superdome to SUPERLOVE—V-Day at 10
In 1996, when Eve Ensler premiered The Vagina Monologues at a small performance space in downtown New York, she received the type of response playwrights dream about: critical acclaim, an Obie award...
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Have You Seen a Woman Director Lately?
It's that time of the year again when most of Hollywood and the New York film world decamp to cold Park City, Utah, to feast on the latest indie fare at the Sundance Film Festival. This year seems a...
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Persepolis—Iranian Feminist as Subversive
It's been a very difficult fall at the box office for political films, especially for those about the Iraq war. But the most interesting political film this fall comes from the most unlikely source—...
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Oprah & Hillary—No Last Names Necessary
The gladiators have moved into the amphitheatre. And who would have guessed such a spectacle would debut in Des Moines, Iowa, on a Saturday afternoon nearly a year before the presidential election? ...
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Lucy Lippard on Eco Art and Climate Change
Lucy Lippard is curator of Weather Report: Art and Climate Change, her first major exhibition in 20 years. The internationally renowned cultural and art critic, feminist and political activist has w...
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November 30, 2007 | Deborah Siegel |
Arts and culture
Happy Ever After and the Modern Broad
This year, my family’s Thanksgiving festivities included a trip to the multiplex to see the much-touted Disney film, “Enchanted.” Little girls in my family are affected by a deep touch of the prince...
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September 27, 2007 | Peggy Simpson |
Arts and culture
Museum Film Festival Appeals to Fresh Audience
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of its founding, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., is mounting a Festival of Women’s Film and Media Arts this week, with filmmakers from...
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Ms. Memories
It is always stunning to me to realize that an event that still lives in my contemporary memory actually took place decades ago; so when I was invited to a 35th anniversary celebration for Ms. Magaz...
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Sally Field’s Peace Message Breaks Through
Last night at the Emmy Awards, Sally Field, in accepting her honor for best performance in a dramatic series, gave the best performance as a real-life thinking mother who found herself in the privil...
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August 27, 2007 | Robin Morgan (1941 - 2026) |
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L’Chaim! A Celebration of Grace Paley
First the factual stuff—Because some people care about that sort of thing, she would have said, So a person should try to act polite even if they’re a writer maybe especially if and even though fact...
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A Modest Proposal . . .
. . . to the Young Man on the Plane from Los Angeles to Seattle who said of the movie that most passengers—male and female—voted to watch, “I don’t watch chick flicks!”
So what exactly is a “chick...
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June 28, 2007 | Ariel Dougherty |
Arts and culture
Joining Audience to Filmmaker
Documentary filmmaking is never a job for the faint-hearted. Nevertheless, five separate works are currently in production that all focus in radically different ways on the women’s liberation moveme...
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SiCKO Hits the House
It’s ironic, but outside of hospitals and day care centers, perhaps the best place to acquire some kind of illness on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., was Michael Moore’s press conference on Capitol H...
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New Study Finds Abysmally Few Minority and Women Owned Radio Stations
In 1976, the U.S. Court of Appeals advised the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that it should begin to include race as a factor in deciding which applicants to approve licenses for broadcast...
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The Thinking Woman’s Theater—Mary-Mitchell Campbell
I first saw Company by Stephen Sondheim back in the 70s, when Elaine Stritch with her alcoholic rasp was singing “Here’s to the Ladies Who Lunch” and the whole show had a snooty, misogynistic qualit...
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May 31, 2007 | Melissa Silverstein |
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Guild Finds No Progress for Hollywood Women Writers
Ever read the credits of your favorite TV show or movie? Chances are it was written by a man. A recent report from the Writer’s Guild of America West, “Whose Stories Are We Telling?” shows us why. T...
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In Defense of Hip-Hop
“Hip-hop is the CNN of the ghetto”—words spoken by legendary artist Chuck D of Public Enemy years before Puffy became a household name and bling a term used by actual CNN anchors. Serving as a mirro...
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The Mother’s Day Gift I Want
Jewish mothers have gotten a bad rap—for being overprotective, overfeeding, intrusive, manipulative, guilt inducing. The list is easily extended. It is almost impossible to remember that the Jewish ...
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Alternatives to the Summer Blockbuster
The summer movie season kicks off this weekend with Spiderman 3 descending onto thousands of screens at a multiplex near you. Hollywood prognosticators predict the biggest grossing summer EVER with ...
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My Subversive Barbie
A friend of mine is turning 50 today.
Our friendship was brief but intense. I didn’t get invited to her glitzy celebrity and fashion-hype parties. We don’t run in the same circles any longer.
Al...
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March 06, 2007 | Susan Dworkin |
Arts and culture
The Thinking Woman’s Theatre
“A woman’s perspective is exactly what’s needed when tackling plays about aggression, warfare and political upheaval,” says director Eleanor Holdridge. “In Shakespeare, there’s an intrinsic sense of...
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February 27, 2007 | Kristal Brent Zook |
Arts and culture
Murphy’s “Norbit”—Just a Good Laugh?
You may have heard the film “Norbit” was number one at the box office on its opening weekend earlier this month. You’ve probably also seen the ads at bus stop benches and on billboards: the image of...