Pink women’s underwear appeared on the front pages of newspapers and became a hot topic on prime time news programmes in India earlier this month. The phenomenon appears to have attracted attention elsewhere in the world, too.

Since it’s nearly 1am and I’m blogging from a spotty wifi connection at a hotel in Corvallis, OR, this is just going to be a quick follow-up to yesterday’s post about WIMN’s lecture tour in Oregon this week.
So, quick reminder: I hope all of you in the Portland, OR area will come out to […]

Hi all! Haven’t been blogging much in recent months as I’ve been working on my forthcoming book, Reality Bites Back: How Guilty Pleasure TV Is Making Us Sexist, Shallow and Socially Irresponsible. But I couldn’t let two stop on WIMN’s multimedia lecture tour go by without mention. I’ll be conducting the following multimedia presentation in […]

Procter & Gamble’s multicultural marketing campaign “My Black Is Beautiful” — which it insists is a movement — is back.
As I’ve written here before, the major corporation designed the campaign in response to marketing data that black women spend three times more money on beauty products than the general female population. As part of […]