Small groups broke out and brainstormed for an hour to answer the question:

What resources would strengthen your community’s capacity to sustain yourselves as media makers?

The following bullet point list represents the summation/report-back from the small groups about what resources we need to effectively sustain our work.
(As always, please note that I have done my […]

Report-back from the Women’s Media Equity Summit: Visioning Activity
Note: I can’t possibly type as fast as the women in this group speak, so I’ll do my best to capture the essence of what is said, and as a journalist I will attempt to quote accurately. But, understand that there will be typos, paraphrased comments, etc.
Youth […]

It’s 8:45 am in Detroit, MI, and our facilitator, Adrienne Maree Brown of the Ruckus Society, is leading us in an opening intro. We’re only half-way through the around-the-room introduction of attendees of the Women’s Media Equity Summit of the Allied Media Conference. I think this gather’s motto could be, “We meet more inspiring women […]

By Guest Bloggers Jamii Claiborne and Susanne Gubanc
Oprah advises Rihanna, “If a man hits you once, he will hit you again.”
CNN brings on legal expert Linda Fairstein to tell Rihanna, “Get serious counseling about this.”
NPR’s Tom Ashbrook wonders, “Everyone’s bent over backwards and really succeeded in raising a generation of quite strong young women. […]

On Monday I was featured on the WGN News at Nine, a local Chicago station, about the B word - bitch. It went well. No issues about the piece other than they gave me the title of “Dr.” when I don’t have my PhD.
But the negative comments I heard second hand were directed towards […]

My first impression of GOP VP nominee Sarah Palin’s appearance on Saturday Night Live last night? Well, I suppose the cold open was more fun than a moose hunt (says the city dweller who favors gun control).
While there was some entertainment value in the hall-of-mirrors aspect to Palin looking on as Tina Fey skewered […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Very, very quick hit: just found out that Rosa Clemente will be appearing on CSPAN’s “The Road to the White House” in just a few minutes (some time shortly after 7pm, EST), right after the end of the Bob Barr interview. Rosa accepted her nomination as Green Party Vice Presidential nominee last night in Chicago […]