WMC Live
February 28, 2021 | Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #340: The People's House. (Original Airdate 2/28/2021)
The United States House of Representatives: its powers, history, legends, and unique Constitutional functions. Special Guest: Congresswoman Val Demings (D-FL).
WMC News & Features
February 25, 2021 | Ruchira Gupta | Free Speech, Gender-based violence, International, Media
Gaslighting, Stalking, Revenge Porn: Right-Wing Hate Fuels Attacks on Women Journalists in India

Supporters of the ruling party have instigated threats and violence in an effort to silence women journalists.

WMC Climate
February 25, 2021 | Lauren Wolfe | Environment
Biden Climate Watch: Fixing Trump's Environmental Damage

In its four years, the Trump administration managed to make a hash out of decades of efforts to slow climate change. But now we have President Biden, who some are calling the first “climate president.” Still, not everyone is thrilled with Biden’s record on the environment, and wonder whether his term will manage to repair the damage done under Trump.

WMC FBomb
February 25, 2021 | Nicole Fallert | Feminism
Author Koa Beck discusses her new book White Feminism

Beck’s book reflects white feminism for what it really is: a strategy for gender equality that’s shaped by colonialism, imperialism, and white supremacy.

WMC Women Under Siege
February 22, 2021 | Valerie Plesch | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Her Hands in His: One Family Contends with Kosovo’s Legacy of Sexualized Violence

A father holds hands with his daughter, a survivor of sexualized violence during Kosovo’s 1998-1999 war for independence. Twenty-two years later, she is among thousands of survivors of systemic rape still awaiting justice.

WMC FBomb
February 22, 2021 | Regiane Folter | Feminism
The Movement to Make the Spanish and Portuguese Languages More Inclusive

The feminist and the LGTBQIA+ movements in Latin America have started to criticize how Spanish and Portuguese express so much systemic prejudice and misogyny and are proposing changes to make them more inclusive.

WMC FBomb
February 22, 2021 | Ruby Hogue | Race/Ethnicity
The Difference Between Being White-Passing and White

White-passing or not, I only exist because my ancestors endured the unimaginable.

WMC Live
February 21, 2021 | Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #339: Homegrown American Terrorism. (Original Airdate 2/21/2021)

Robin—whose book "The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism" predicted this—dives into who funded it, who's behind it, who collaborates in it, and just how deep it runs.

WMC Climate
February 18, 2021 | Lauren Wolfe | Disability, Environment, WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
Climate Change Deniers, Left Out in the Cold

It’s freezing this week in the United States. And not just in the normally winter-frigid Northeast or Midwest. In southern states like Texas and Oklahoma, it has been in the 20s or lower.

WMC FBomb
February 17, 2021 | Olivia Sieler | Media
Celebrating Film Protagonists Who Pushed Back on Rape Culture Before #MeToo

These films encapsulated the power of #MeToo before our culture had the language and collective power to name that movement.

WMC News & Features
February 16, 2021 | Julianne McShane | Media, Violence against women
Two Podcast Series Put Sexual Assault Survivors Front and Center

‘Broken: Seeking Justice’ and ‘Canary’ show how journalists cover sexual assault — and podcasts’ potential for rebuilding trust.

WMC FBomb
February 16, 2021 | Celeste Huang-Menders | Politics
How Political Violence Has Become Normalized for Teen Girls in America

As a 16-year-old, I’ve grown numb to acts of extremism in my country, and I’m hardly the only teenager to feel this way.

WMC FBomb
February 15, 2021 | Kristi Eaton | Feminism
This Project Aims to Involve More Young Women in Mapping
Everywhere She Maps is an effort launched in November 2020 that aims to address the underrepresentation of women in the geospatial field.
WMC Climate
February 13, 2021 | Jane Fonda. | Environment
What Joe Biden Needs to do to Become Our First True 'Climate President'

Climate activists in the U.S. are pinching themselves over what the newly inaugurated Biden administration is doing to address the climate crisis. Who would have thought that our first “climate president” would be Joe Biden?

WMC IDAR/E
February 11, 2021 | Michelle Garcia | Race/Ethnicity
Editor's note
Over the last several months, reports of white women claiming Latina or other identities have surfaced in the news. Often, each instance quickly turns into a spectacle of morbid shaming or source of r...
WMC IDAR/E
February 11, 2021 | Myriam Gurba | Disability, Race/Ethnicity, WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
Fake like US

Racial and ethnic grifting is a settler-colonial tradition that’s as American as Dutch apple pie.

WMC IDAR/E
February 11, 2021 | Sofia Quintero | Race/Ethnicity
Latina Identity Thieves and their Enablers

Apologists for cultural poseurs make plain the cleavages festering in our movements because of anti-blackness, internalized colonization, machismo and elitism.

WMC News & Features
February 10, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Media, Race/Ethnicity
New Biography Explores the Life and Many Legacies of Ida B. Wells

The author, Wells’ great-granddaughter, aims to introduce the journalist, activist, and anti-lynching leader “to a younger generation and other people who might not be as familiar with her life.”

WMC FBomb
February 10, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Arts and culture
A Teen Girl Learns To Love Herself And Her Community in Renée Watson’s 'Love Is a Revolution'

“I wanted to write about joy and about a girl who gets to fall in love, and gets to mess up and make mistakes and be a nuanced girl who isn't perfect."

WMC FBomb
February 09, 2021 | Kadin Burnett | Media, Race/Ethnicity
Despite Casting Black Leads, The Bachelor Franchise Still Has A Race Problem

Since The Bachelor and The Bachelorette started in 2002 and 2003 respectively, only three leads have not been white.

WMC FBomb
February 08, 2021 | Patricia Connor | Arts and culture
Like Hamilton, Bridgerton Normalizes Diversity in Unexpected Ways

Bridgerton deftly handles race, in much the same way Lin Manuel Miranda’s game-changing masterpiece Hamilton did.

WMC Live
February 07, 2021 | Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #338: The Senate. (Original Airdate 2/7/2021)
Robin dissects the complex, arcane, convoluted rules and traditions of the U.S. Senate, "the world's greatest deliberative body"—none of which are in The Constitution.
WMC Women Under Siege
February 05, 2021 | Michelle Onello | Health, International, Politics
The Biden Administration’s Moves to Protect Abortion are Good, Just Not Good Enough

While President Biden’s memorandum provides a welcome change to the dangerous situation established by the Trump administration, it only partly restores the status quo of four years ago. The timing, presentation, and language of the actions indicate that abortion rights advocates will have to continue to fight to make abortion rights a bigger priority for the Biden administration.

WMC News & Features
February 04, 2021 | Julianne McShane | Media, Sports
Documentary Turns a ‘Feminist Gaze’ on NFL Cheerleaders’ Fight for Pay Equity

Ahead of the Super Bowl, the new film offers a unique view of the devaluing of “women's work.”

WMC Climate
February 03, 2021 | Nyasha Bhobo | Environment
Zimbabwe’s Women Are Baking Bread. Environmentalists Are Not Happy.

Household hunger in Zimbabwe used to be confined to rural districts, but in 2019, as the economy faltered, hunger took root in cities as well. Enter the rural women baking collectives — and the environmentalists who oppose them.

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