Women In Media & News launched WIMN’s Voices: A Group Blog on Women, Media, AND…in March 2006. WIMN’s Voices features a diverse online community of approximately 50 women writers monitoring media coverage of current social, cultural and political issues from a progressive perspective.
Every day, these leading journalists, media analysts, scholars and activists analyze the pressing news of the day through the frame of “Women, Media, AND…” the wide range of topics listed below.
The WIMN’s Voices blog:
Additionally, we hope that the tremendous range of perspectives represented within WIMN’s Voices will serve as a model for the media itself - especially the independent press, which critiques the underrepresentation of female writers and journalists of color in corporate outlets, yet all too often replicates that marginalization within their own publications.
Of the writers participating in WIMN’s Voices:
Together, our bloggers are a dynamic mix of seasoned, widely respected journalists and activists whose books you may have read and whose commentary you may have seen in documentaries and news debate shows, as well as emerging young writers for whom this platform provides a new and needed audience. Collectively, WIMN’s Voices bloggers prove that there is no shortage of articulate, provocative, intellectually challenging women out there who could and should be represented as contributors and sources for corporate and independent media alike.
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WIMN’s Voices Bloggers On “Women, Media, AND…”
(Click on contributors’ names for full profiles and more information on their “AND” category)
- Kat Aaron: economics
Producer, Pacifica Radio WBAI’s “Wake Up Call” and “Rise Up Radio”; teacher, Radio Rootz youth training program - Celia Alario: political dissent
Media strategist and consultant, PR for People and the Planet - Robin Andersen: commercialism
Director, Peace and Justice Studies at Fordham University; author, War and Media: Censorship, Propaganda and Myth in the Information Age and Consumer Culture and TV Programming - Veronica I. Arreola: parenthood and family
Board member, Chicago Abortion Fund; Board member, Women In Media & News; blogger, Chicago Parent magazine, Chicago Moms Blog and several personal blogs - Samiya Bashir: LGBTQ community
Communications Director, Freedom to Marry; board member, National Black Justice Coalition; founding organizer and board member, Fire & Ink: A Writer’s Festival for GLBT People of African Descent; author, Where the Apple Falls: Poems; Wearing Shorts on the First Day of Spring; American Visa; editor, Best Black Women’s Erotica 2; co-editor, Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art. - Medea Benjamin: war
Founding director, Global Exchange; co-founder, Code Pink: Women for Peace; organizer, United for Peace and Justice coalition - Frida Berrigan: arms/conflict
Senior research associate, Arms Trade Resource Center; board member, War Resisters League - Heather Boushey: economics
Senior economist, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR); research affiliate, National Poverty Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; editorial review board member, WorkingUSA and the Journal of Poverty - Jennifer Finney Boylan: transgender issues
English professor and director of creative writing, Colby College; author of She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders - Kara Briggs: Native America
Investigative reporter, The Oregonian; health care columnist, Indian Country Today - Adrienne Maree Brown: political dissent and protest
Executive Director, Ruckus Society; Adisor, Wiretapmag.org, Allied Media Conference, Liberty Tree; co-founder, League of Young/Pissed Off Voters; co-editor, How To Get Stupid White Men Out Of Office. - Carolyn Byerly: international media activism
Author of the upcoming Women and Media: A Critical Introduction and “Gender and the Political Economy of Newsmaking” in Sex and Money: Intersections of Feminism and Political Economy of Media; co-author, Media: International Perspectives - Lakshmi Chaudhry: pop culture
Senior editor, In These Times; co-author, The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq; co-editor, Start Making Sense: Turning the Lessons of Election 2004 into Winning Progressive Politics - Kimberle Crenshaw: legal & political affairs
Professor of law, UCLA and Columbia; co-founder, African American Policy Forum; ACLU Racial Justice Fellow - DeAnne Cuellar: technology and communication
Director, Texas Media Empowerment Project; Leadership team, MAG-Net, the Media Action Grassroots Network - Christine Cupaiuolo: politics
Freelance writer and editor; founder and editor, PopPolitics.com - Malkia Cyril: social justice
Director, Youth Media Council; co-founder, Media Justice Network - Echidne of the Snakes: electoral politics
Economist and noted feminist political blogger - Diane Farsetta: public relations
Senior researcher, Center for Media and Democracy; co-host, “A Public Affair,” Madison community radio WORT 89.9 FM; founding member, Madison Women for Peace - Gloria Feldt: reproductive rights
Author, The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women’s Rights and How to Fight Back and Behind Every Choice Is a Story; former president and CEO, Planned Parenthood Federation of America - Deepa Fernandes: immigration
Host, Pacifica Radio WBAI’s “Wake Up Call”; founder, Radio Rootz youth training program - Laura Flanders: issues in the news
Host, “The Laura Flanders Show,” Air America Radio; author, BushWomen: Tales of a Cynical Species; author, Real Majority, Media Minotiry: The Cost of Sidelining Women in Reporting; editor, The W Effect: Sexual Politics in the Age of Bush - Jaclyn Friedman: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender issues
Program director, Center for New Words; co-founder and co-chair, CNW’s “WAM!: Women, Action and Media” annual conference - Seeta Peña Gangadharan: technology
Co-founder, Center for International Media Action; co-founder, WireTap online syndication service - Michelle Garcia: immigration
Producer, Independent Sources, CUNY TV; visiting instructor, CUNY Graduate School for Journalism; freelance journalist for Washington Post, The Nation, Sojourners and other outlets - Nell Geiser: youth activism
Member, Free Radio Youth collective, producer of Pacifica Radio WBAI’s “Rise Up Radio”; co-director, WKCR News Department - Barbara Renaud Gonzalez: Latina/o community
Contributing commentator, NPR’s Morning Edition and LatinoUSA; freelance journalist for The Nation, Ms., The Progressive, the Los Angeles Times and others - EJ Graff: wages and workplace discrimination
Author of What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution; collaborator on Getting Even: Why Women Don’t Get Paid Like Men - and What To Do About It - Margaret Gullette: women and aging
Author, Aged By Culture and Declining to Decline: Cultural Combat and the Politics of Midlife - Suzan Shown Harjo: Native America
President, The Morning Star Institute; columnist, Indian Country Today - Robin Herman: sports
Press spokesman and director of communications, Harvard School of Public Health; editor, girlinthelockerroom.com - Naomi Ishisaka: human rights and civil liberties
Editor-in-chief and designer, ColorsNW magazine - Patricia Jerido: pop culture
Executive Director, GoLeft.org - Mary Johnson: disability issues
Editor, The Ragged Edge Online magazine; author, Make Them Go Away: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Reeve and The Case Against Disability Rights - Ammu Joseph: international media activism
Author, Women in Journalism: Making News; Co-author, Whose News? The Media and Women’s Issues; Terror, Counter-Terror: Women Speak Out; Storylines: Conversations with Women Writers; and Just Between Us: Women Speak about their Writing; Founder-member and website co-editor, Network of Women in Media, India; Teacher, Convergence Institute of Media, Management & Information Technology, Bangalore - Paula Kamen: women’s health and sexuality
Author, All In My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache; Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution; and Feminist Fatale: Voices from the ‘Twentysomething’ Generation Explore the Future of the ‘Women’s Movement - Jean Kilbourne: advertising
Filmmaker, Killing Us Softly (1-3): Advertising’s Image of Women; Deadly Persuasion: The Advertising of Alcohol and Tobacco; Slim Hopes: Advertising and the Obsession with Thinness; and The Killing Screens: Media and the Culture of Violence; author, Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel - Sonali Kolhatkar: foreign policy
Host, Pacifica Radio KPFK’s “Uprising”; founder, Afghan Women’s Mission - Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn: African American women in entertainment media
Freelance entertainment journalist; regular contributor, Blackvoices.com, The Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Essense and Emmy magazines - Stephanie Mackley: independent video production
Documentary film producer, Promises Films; freelance video producer for social and environmental justice organizations - Lucinda Marshall: violence against women
Independent artist and writer; founder, Feminist Peace Network - Courtney Martin: body image
Journalist and filmmaker; author, Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body - Melissa McEwen: miscategorized news
Founder and editor, Shakesville group blog; founding member, Big Brass Blog - Shireen Mitchell: technology and communication
Founder and Executive Director, Digital Sisters/Sistas, Inc; President, Community Technology Centers’ Network (CTCNet); Media and Technology Taskforce Chair, National Council of Women’s Organizations - Anne Elizabeth Moore: consumer culture
Publisher, Punk Planet magazine; author, Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity; author, Hey Kidz, Buy This Book: A Radical Primer on Corporate and Governmental Propaganda and Artistic Activism for Short People - Samhita Mukhopadhyay: media justice
Training and Technology Coordinator, Youth Media Council; Blogger, Feministing.com - Jill Nelson: outrages and responsibilities
Columnist, NiaOnline; former op-ed page contributor, USA Today; author, Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience; Straight, No Chaser: How I Became A Grown-Up Black Woman; Sexual Healing; and Finding Martha’s Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island; editor, Police Brutality: An Anthology - Tram Nguyen: race
Executive Editor, Colorlines; author, We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant America After 9/11; contributor, Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment, The New Faces of Asian Pacific America: Numbers, Diversity and Change in the 21st Century, New Horizons: 25 Vietnamese Americans in 25 Years - Makani Themba Nixon: race
Executive director, The Praxis Project; author, Making Policy, Making Change; co-author, Talking the Walk: Communications Guide for Racial Justice and Media Advocacy and Public Health: Power for Prevention - Rosemary Okello-Orlale: international media activism
Executive Director, African Woman and Child Feature Service (Kenya) - Gwendolyn Pough: hip hop culture
Associate Professor, Women’s Studies, Writing and Rhetoric, Syracuse University; author, Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere; fiction author (under pseudonym Gwyneth Bolton), I’m Gonna Make You Love Me and If Only You Knew - Jennifer L. Pozner: executive director’s blog on women and the media
Media critic, lecturer, and founder and executive director, Women In Media & News; contributing essayist, Catching A Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century; What We Do Now; The W Effect: Sexual Politics in the Bush Years and Beyond; Uncovering the Right on Campus - Mikhaela Reid: cartoons
Political cartoonist for the Boston Phoenix, In These Times and The Funny Times; contributor, Attitude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists - Caryl Rivers: American culture
Journalism professor, Boston University; author, Slick Spins and Fractured Facts: How Cultural Myths Distort the News; co-author, She Works, He Works: How Two Income Families are Happy, Healthy and Thriving - Loretta Ross: reproductive justice
National coordinator, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective; founder, National Center for Human Rights Education; co-author, Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice - Keely Savoie: science
Freelance writer and contributor to Choice!, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, InTheFray and Today’s Chemist at Work; member, National Association of Science Writers, American Academy for the Advancement of Science, and National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals - Susy Schultz: motherhood and family
Editor Chicago Parent; founding president, Association for Women Journalists, Chicago - Rinku Sen: race
Publisher, Colorlines magazine; communications director, Applied Research Center; author, Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing; board member, Center for Third World Organizing - Jocelyn Sims: Asian Americans
Business trade journalist; media studies graduate student, DePaul University - Thenmozhi Soundararajan: media justice now
Executive director, Third World Majority; co-founder, Media Justice Network; author, The Distance Between You and Me Is the Empire - Miranda Spencer: environment
Freelance environmental journalist; associate member, Society of Environmental Journalists - Maia Szalavitz: drugs
Senior fellow, STATS (Statistical Assessment Service); author, Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids - Silja J.A. Talvi: criminal justice and prisons
Senior editor, In These Times; independent journalist and essayist - Maria Suarez Toro: international media
Co-director, FIRE: Feminist International Radio Endeavor; author, Women’s Adult Literacy Book and Guin - Children of the War in El Salvador; co-author, Se Vende Lindo Pais (For Sale Lovely Country) and Towards a Methodology for the Popularization of Women’s Human Rights - Karen Toering: policy reform and media justice
Co-director, Reclaim the Media - Jessica Valenti: the blogosphere
Founder and executive editor, Feministing.com; blogger, BushvChoice.com - Betty Yu: media justice
Director of Community Outreach & Media, Manhattan Neighborhood Network; Leadership team, MAG-Net, the Media Action Grassroots Network - Andi Zeisler: feminism
Co-founder and editorial/creative director, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture - Helen Zia, Asian Americans
Author, Asian-American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People; co-author of My Country Versus Me