So, it’s my birthday today. I’ve never been one to try to hide my age (33), and I don’t dare say 33 feels old (it doesn’t, actually), lest Jessica Valenti yell at me again for thinking I’m aging out of the “young feminist” demo.
What with reminders from Friendster, MySpace and auto-remind alerts on Blackberries, […]

Jeanne Costello, former Executive Director of Durango Community Access Television, and I talk about how independent video and Public Access Television can change our local communities and why women can enjoy a unique freedom in the video world. To find a Public Access Television channel in your area, click here and for another great directory, […]

By Guest Blogger Carla DeSantis
For the past 15 years, I have been a professional advocate for women in music. You may wonder exactly why women in music need an advocate. Sure, there are plenty of women in music, but these days you rarely see anyone under age 40 playing instruments covered in mainstream […]

I did not have a good Monday morning. I was already late when I got a flat tire on my bicycle.
I was headed to Harlem for an event aimed at encouraging Representative Charles Rangel to do more in the case of Kenneth Foster, to get Rangel (who is against the death penalty) to join […]

I talk with Jeanne Costello, former executive director of Durango Community Access Television, about why she believes in advocacy video and how cable access television can transform anyone into an independent media maker.

As is often the case with women and media issues, fellow WIMN’s Voices blogger Laura Flanders first noticed the trend. In her 2004 book “Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species,” Flanders wrote of former EPA administrator and New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman:
Call her the Mighty Mouse of the GOP. When the party’s […]

Supremely sexist, “Miss Teen USA” has been dummied down and tarted up.

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“Another of those silly jokes she forwards to her whole list,” I thought as I warily opened the e-mail from my friend and former U. S. Senate candidate, Claire Sargent.
But this was no joke. Claire had forwarded a message from another long time tiller of the women’s equality fields, Paula Cullison, who reported that […]

I hate it when this happens to good women who sleep with bad men, even if it’s your own husband.