Last week, I blogged about the Eunice News, a small, local newspaper in Louisiana that has decided to do something that shouldn’t be (but too often is) unusual for corporate media: educate readers about the nature of domestic violence, from the roots of the problem to the ways it plays out in the lives of […]

WIMN’s Voices blogger Michelle Garcia has produced an important, unusually honest news feature for Time.com about Latino-American landowners fighting to block the proposed border fence in Southern Texas… and the impact that the fence will have on American families of color, whose ancestral land is being sacrificed to the vagaries of U.S. immigration policy.
Unlike […]

What would happen if Beat the Press author Dean Baker decided to take some comedy writing courses, leave the Center for Economic and Policy Research and get a gig over at Comedy Central?
Well, his first segment might look a little like last night’s Daily Show bit skewering the infantile nature of media coverage of […]

As a parent the issue of whether or not to vaccinate is quite a complex decision. As someone with a scientific background and public health professionals dotting my friends & coworker scene, I went with vaccination. The debate over whether or not vaccinations cause autism in children is heated, but I weighed that threat with […]

A recent article, “A feminist revolution in India skips the liberation,” published in the International Herald Tribune, provokes a spirited response from young Indian feminists.

By Guest Blogger Liza Sabater

Allison and Nancy have a killer post over at TechPresident titled, "Twitter: An Antidote to Election Day Voting Problems?". It’s brilliant and you have to read it top to bottom for the points it makes on : Empowering Self-Organized Volunteers, Sharing Patterns, Serving as Mobile Legal Aide, Smart Routing Around Resource […]

Quick hit: several of us here at WIMN’s Voices have written about how misrepresentative media treatment of violence against women too often is — that is, when this kind of abuse isn’t missing entirely, or portrayed as alternately glamorous or hilarious.
Yet it’s rare that we get to congratulate an outlet for solid journalism on […]

The Amherst College Women’s and Gender Studies Department is seeking applications for a rank-open position in Gender and Media in the Global South. Candidates who get us all their materials by Oct. 31, 2008 will be assured of full consideration.
Amrita Basu
Associate Dean of Faculty
Paino Professor of Political Science and Women’s and Gender […]

Despite all the talk about race and gender in the 2008 election, it’s ironic (though all too typical) that precious few media outlets have even reported the fact that two women of color are running on the first all-female presidential ticket in U.S. history, on the Green Party slate. Competing for that all-important Oval Office […]

By Guest Blogger Ruth Rosen
Astonishing. Women are more than half the population. Yet the vice-presidential debate, which featured a woman running for the VP, and moderated by a respected female journalist, barely even mentioned any of the issues that concern female voters.
Amazingly, it was Sarah Palin who uttered the words “women’s rights” as part of […]