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Women Ahead of the (Blog) Curve
Four years ago Lisa Stone, Jory des Jardins and Elisa Camahort Page wanted to settle the annoying question they were constantly hearing: where are the women bloggers? So they put out a call, on their blogs of course, asking women if they would come to a conference, and, as Elisa says, the "response was immediate, passionate and positive.” Today Blogher has exploded from the 300 early attendees to 1,000 women (and a couple of guys) who just spent two days in San Francisco networking, learning and creating community around the act of blogging.
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Blogging While Brown (and Female)
“People consider me the 411 on what goes wrong with black women in America,” says Gina McCauley, founder of www.whataboutourdaughters.blogspot.com.
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June 09, 2008 | Glenda Holste |
Media
Live From (the New) Main Street
Election year coverage that centers on citizens rather than candidates enjoyed a visible boost Sunday as “Live From Main Street Minneapolis” inaugurated a five-show series of town hall events around...
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About That Writer's Strike at Daily Kos
I work full time, but my evenings are spent writing about and promoting Hillary Clinton on the Internet. Sometimes well into the wee hours of the morning. I may be just a volunteer, but I’m one of m...
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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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Invisible Woman
Our national conversation is a messy collision of race and gender, with ageism and the questionable state of our media tossed in as collateral damage.
The 2008 presidential race is making us think...
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Women World Leaders Reassess Security
“Global security” tends to conjure up “fighting terrorism,” conditioned as we are by the media and government. But last fall, the International Women Leaders Global Security Summit (New York City, N...
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Social Networking Sites Provide Unprecedented Forums for Hillary Hating
Politics is not for the weak at heart. It has to be rough being any candidate, just waiting—and in many cases, cringing—to see what will be said next, or what unflattering photo of you will appear. ...
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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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The GreenStone Story—Radio That Talked to Women
On September 12, 2006 GreenStone Media threw a star-studded soiree for the official, public launch of its female-targeted radio network at New York City’s Museum of Television and Radio. Named promi...
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WMC Commentary: Hillary Clinton’s Masculine Communication Style Just Might Win the Prize
Of course Hillary Clinton is “running as a woman.” As former Colorado Congresswoman Pat Schroeder aptly reminded us when asked the same question during her 1988 presidential bid: “do I have a choice...
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In Boy Versus Girl, It's Hillary 1, Media 0
The opinions expressed here are those of the author alone, and not those of the Women’s Media Center. As a 501(c)3 organization, the Women’s Media Center does not endorse or support candidates for e...
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Media Consortium Report: Snoops Get a Direct Line
It seemed like shocking news last week when the telecommunications giant Verizon admitted it has readily allowed national security investigators without warrants to browse customer records on thousa...
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October 09, 2007 | Faye Anderson |
Media
From Imus to Industry—What Price Dignity?
Hours into viewing the live webcast September 25 of the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection hearing, “From Imus to Industry: The Business of Stereotypes and Degrading Image...
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Benazir Bhutto—Will a Third Term Be the Charm?
Pinky Bhutto—Benazir’s school nickname in Karachi—is coming back. Will she become prime minister of Pakistan a third time? Will three be the lucky number allowing her to complete a full term? Will a...
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Hillary, Condi, Aung San Suu Kyi and You
Consider these two images from recent news events: 20,000 monks marching past Burmese Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s home to protest the democracy leader’s 11-year house arrest and the country’s ...
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Hillary Evens the Score on the Sunday Morning Circuit
I watched as much of Hillary Clinton as I could yesterday—it was almost an all day affair. In a well orchestrated media blitz, the Clinton campaign managed to squeeze in lengthy interviews on all fi...
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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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The Invisible World Cup
Along with most people in this country, you probably haven't noticed that the U.S. women's national soccer team, ranked number one in the world by FIFA (soccer's governing body), is off in China com...
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September 17, 2007 | Deborah Siegel |
Media
Wired, She Wrote
“Somebody call the twelve-year old!” cried my mother as the screen on the boxy home computer I was using to write my first high school term paper went inexplicably dark. I was ready to pound the off...
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Women Are Half of All Bloggers—But Media Aren’t Noticing
If you get your news from, well, the news media, you can be forgiven if you didn’t know that nearly 800 women gathered in Chicago last weekend for the third annual convention of BlogHer, an online c...
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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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Al Mahaba Radio Speaks to Iraqi Women
Bushra Jamil, co-founder of Radio Al Mahaba, the first and only independent women’s radio station in the Middle East, has questions. Lots of them.
“Why on earth would America come in and get rid o...