I had been asked to make a presentation during the second forum of the conference, focusing on issues concerning women working in the media, but - due to some last-minute communication gaps - I found myself slotted instead into session five, on ways out of sexism in the media, scheduled for Sunday. I thought […]

Media love to tell women we should be ashamed of aging. “You never ask a lady her age,” we hear from news anchors to soap opera characters. But WIMN’s Voices is turning 1,000 today, and we couldn’t be happier at how we’ve grown up.
This, in fact, is the thousandth post to WIMN’s Voices, the […]

Opportunity for Boston area folks: This weekend through Monday there will be several chances to meet Women In Media & News’s staff, board and bloggers at the WAM!2008 conference today (Saturday) and tomorrow (Sunday), as well the next day (Monday) at MIT, where I will be speaking about reality TV as cultural backlash against women […]

You know that we don’t ask for your financial support very often. We’re asking now because we really need it. After years on its last legs, the computer our tireless Executive Director uses has bitten the dust. Kicked the bucket. Kaput.

If you value WIMN’s Voices–and you want to amplify women’s voices online, in print, on TV and radio, and in the public debate at large–we need your help.

If you value WIMN’s Voices–and you want to amplify women’s voices online, in print, on TV and radio, and in the public debate at large–we need your help.

Dear readers,
It’s been far too long since I’ve written anything on this awesome site. There’s a legitimate excuse: I had to finish an intensive work of investigative journalism, and I retreated to my apartment (my cave, as I began to think of it), to finish the book. Although the subject matter took a lot out […]

So, it’s my birthday today. I’ve never been one to try to hide my age (33), and I don’t dare say 33 feels old (it doesn’t, actually), lest Jessica Valenti yell at me again for thinking I’m aging out of the “young feminist” demo.
What with reminders from Friendster, MySpace and auto-remind alerts on Blackberries, […]

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Hi all — I’ve been stuck in airports trying to get home from Chicago (post-BlogHer and post-YearlyKos) to tornado-hit Brooklyn all day today and won’t have time to post anything here today. And considering I have to turn around and go to DC for yet another journalism conference tomorrow, I thought this might be a […]