The online access has been spotty this weekend at the JAWS (Journalism & Women Symposium) conference — or “JAWS Camp,” as it’s fondly known to members — which is why I haven’t been liveblogging the whole conference. But a few quick refelctions during a moment of rare WiFi accessibility:
– Cheryl Hilliard Tucker, Executive Editor of […]

Quick note — there’s a powerful set of women in journalism gathered in Door County, Wisconsin this weekend for the annual Journalism & Women SYmposium (JAWS) conference. Last night, I led one of twelve discussion groups about what bothers female journalists about representations of women in news media — and what we as journalists can […]

WIMN’s Voices blogger (and the fabulous editorial director of Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture magazine) Andi Zeisler appeared yesterday on CNN — to read her previous post announcing the segment, see http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=812.
The video is available here.
Andi will likely be writing about her reflections on the segment some time soon, so check back.
And, incidentally, […]

Cross-posted from the Feminist Peace Network blog:
Check out the following transcript of author Naomi Klein and Amy Goodman on Democracy Now verbally skewering (that’s probably putting it politely) former Fed chief Alan Greenspan. I thought it was quite brave when Greenspan appeared on Jon Stewart recently to plug his new book, but compared to […]

Partly inspired by the disgusting facts about the weirdly popular diet drug Alli, but partly by a personal experience. A few years ago I had a horrible case of pneumonia that left me bed-ridden and barely able to breathe for three miserable weeks. When I returned to the world of the living, sickly and weak, […]

I’m back on my mini book tour for Attack of the 50-Foot Mikhaela! Next stop: Beantown (or next to it, anyway!)

Who: Angry cartoonists Mikhaela Reid & Masheka Wood

What: Slideshow/signing/discussion for Attack of the 50-Foot Mikhaela!: Cartoons by Mikhaela Reid w/ a foreword by Ted Rall and Deep Doodle: Cartoons by Masheka Wood!

When: Friday Sept. […]

WIMN Action Alert: Bra Burning Edition
By Guest Blogger Suzie Siegel
On Sept. 26, The Tampa Tribune ran an article that repeated the old myth that feminists burned bras in the 1960s. A separate timeline said feminists encouraged “bra-burning rallies.”
This might be a great time to write a letter to the editor, asking for a correction: […]

…Isaiah Thomas, that is, on tonight’s episode of CNN’s Out in the Open, which airs at 8pm ET, 5pm PT. The subject is Thomas’s alleged repeated use of the word “bitch” when addressing former Knicks marketing VP Anucha Browne Sanders. (See Jemele Hill’s great post below for more on the case.)
Anyway, if I understood the […]

Newsweek just interviewed me about the controversy starting to brew around an Italian fashion ad that features a truly anorexic model. The designer claims it is an effort at public awareness. I believe it is simply another effort to use shock to sell.
One of the things I write about in my book is the media’s […]

women find deeper male voices to be more attractive, judging them to be more dominant, older, healthier and more masculine sounding….Men, on the other hand, find higher-pitch voices in women more attractive, subordinate, feminine, healthier and younger sounding.