By Guest Blogger Asha Tall

If you’re reading this blog, you’re probably part of feminist media, or supportive of it. And either way, you’ve probably been involved in seeking funding at some point or other. Especially if you’re working in independent media (which you probably are, because most corporate media is anything but feminist).
Thank […]

Tonight is the first night of several ooVoo events with political bloggers. I will be on the session with Liza Sabater of Culture Kitchen discussing “Diversity in the Blogosphere”. Come join us in the discussion. There are several other political bloggers, you can find a list here on Culture Kitchen and on ooVoo: My ooVoo […]

If a group of “mommy bloggers” tries to drive more traffic to their websites by taking part in a corporate-sponsored road trip, is it problematic?
I’m not sure… but I do know that marketers consider mommy bloggers to be “tech-savvy media pros who work cheap and have a direct link to a demographic that spends more […]

In an election season that has been low on controversial issues, leave it to the View’s Sherri Shepherd to get Americans talking about abortion again. With her statement “I’ve had more abortions that I can count” Sherri tries to indicate how out of control her life was and though she grew up as a Jehovah’s […]

Hot off the heels of the extremely productive media commentary workshop that Catherine Orenstein and I co-facilitated at BlogHer (which ended yesterday morning), I went directly to the Tides Foundation’s Momentum 2008 conference, which is bringing together visionary progressive leaders in a broad swatch of sectors, to share their best thinking on what America’s deepest […]

This morning offered a vibrant plenary on Democracy, though I wasn’t able to liveblog it. Hopefully the video will be available. Here, now, are my notes from the Health plenary of the Momentum conference, which is taking place right now. As always, I’ll be doing my best to type presenters’ comments as they speak, though […]

Hi, I’m Deanne Cuellar, project director of Texas Media Empowerment Project, co-founder of Local 782 in San Antonio, TX, leadership team member of MAG-Net (the Media Action Grassroots Network), and independent blogger at Krak My Apple. I’ve been signed on as a house blogger here at WIMN’s Voices for many months, now, and have been […]

A piece on Salon this morning called Cracking Code Pink featured a number of criticisms of the women’s anti-war organization (that, I confess, I’m doing a little work with) that were on target and worth some in-depth discussion. But I’m a bit dismayed by the writer’s continued assertion that poor fashion is a reasonable excuse […]

WIMN’s taking our show on the road tomorrow. Over the next two weeks, San Francisco/Bay Area journalists, bloggers, media activists and generally interested folks will have three chances to meet up with several of WIMN’s staff members, board members, bloggers and allies.
1. Thursday, July 17, 7-9pm: PARTY for Feminist Media Justice! (RSVP now, […]

I’m reposting Women In Media & News’s July 17th house party announcement below — hope you’ll blog it, forward it to your Bay Area friends, and attend if you can. And, as a quick reminder to all of you in the Bay Area thinking of joining us this Thursday — this is your chance to […]