Shelby Knox
Bio:
Shelby Knox is nationally known as the subject of the Sundance award-winning film, The Education of Shelby Knox, a 2005 documentary chronicling her teenage activism for comprehensive sex education and gay rights in her Southern Baptist community. She travels across the country as an itinerant feminist organizer, doing trainings, workshops and civil disobedience in the name of reproductive justice and sexual health. She is a proud 2010 alumna of the Women’s Media Center’s Progressive Women’s Voices program and lives in New York City, where she is the director of Organizing, Women’s Rights, for the social action platform Change.org.
Shelby Knox is a WMC SheSource expert on Business and the Economy, Health and Social Justice
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WMC Live
September 22, 2012 | Patti Chang, Shelby Knox, Mona Eltahawy |
Politics,
Robin Morgan,
Science and tech
WMC Live #5: Mona Eltahawy, Shelby Knox, Patti Chang. (Original Airdate 9/23/2012)
Robin on the Mars rover and gender in space. Guests: Patti Chang on philanthropy for women; Shelby Knox on online organizing and media myths on young feminism and women's equality; and Mona Eltahawy on sexual harassment in Egypt.
WMC News & Features
Ms. Is Celebrated in the City of its Birth
Four decades after its birth as the nation's first feminist mass-market magazine, Ms. was honored this week by the New York City Council. Shelby Knox writes of its continuing advocacy.
WMC News & Features
"Gloria: In Her Own Words"—Notes from a Young Feminist
Our twenty-something commentator appreciates the HBO documentary, but also wishes for a deeper treatment of WMC Cofounder Gloria Steinem's philosophy and activism.
WMC News & Features
January 27, 2011 | Shelby Knox |
Economy,
Environment,
Feminism,
Health,
Immigration,
LGBTQIA,
Politics,
Violence against women
An Obama Report Card: State of the Union for Women and Children
In the wake of President Obama's State of the Union Address, the WMC looks at his record on a series of essential issues. Overall grade? Pass, but with ample room for improvement.
WMC News & Features
October 19, 2010 | Shelby Knox |
Politics
Why Christine O'Donnell Is Not a Joke
Drawing on her experience as an “itinerant feminist organizer,” WMC Progressive Women's Voices alumna Shelby Knox explains why the seemingly fringe views of Delaware’s GOP Senate candidate are no laughing matter.
WMC News & Features
Wonder Woman in Pants is Not a Feminist Win
It’s the end of an era. At 69 years old, Wonder Woman has decided to put on some pants.
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