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Making up for make-up: a win for the feminist blogosphere

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August 17th, 2010

By Guest Blogger Janna A. Zinzi, cross–posted at Feministe.
Over the last month or so, I’ve been following this story about trendy makeup company MAC’s inappropriate collaboration with design duo Rodarte. It was reported that the unnamed collection, due to launch in September, was inspired by Rodarte’s trip through Texas which exposed them to Mexican […]

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Will Media Report FL Shooting As Gender-Based Hate Crime?

jpozners Icon Posted by Jennifer L Pozner

June 8th, 2010

It happened again. Another violent guy shot and killed his wife — and went on to gun down six other women unfortunate enough to be in his path before committing suicide. Four women are now dead; three others are in critical condition. And some media outlets (such as the AP story on Yahoo! News, “5 […]

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Want feminist news and public affairs programming? Support GRITtv.

jpozners Icon Posted by Jennifer L Pozner

May 24th, 2010

As long-time WIMN’s Voices readers know, GRITtv, hosted by journalist (and WIMN’s Voices contributor) Laura Flanders, is one of the most important news and public affairs programs produced in the United States, providing us with critical perspectives we can’t find anywhere else on television.
I don’t usually blog fundraising pitches on behalf of non-profits other […]

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Media Literacy: Piercing Content and Who Controls It

jpozners Icon Posted by Jennifer L Pozner

May 11th, 2010

I wrote this article on media literacy for On The Issues Magazine’s Spring ‘10 edition, published today. To explore the theme of this edition, “The Feminist Mind,” contributors look at ways readers can enhance their understanding of feminist and progressive values.
Media Literacy: Piercing Content and Who Controls It
by Jennifer L. Pozner
On The Issues magazine, […]

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FCC, WTF?!? Update: A Win for an Open Internet

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May 7th, 2010

By Guest Bogger Lila Kitaeff
At Reel Grrls, we like to keep track of what the Federal Communications Commission is doing and how it affects our lives. When the FCC came to town a couple of years ago to hold a public hearing about media consolidation, a bunch of Reel Grrls participants went down to […]

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Anti-Abortion Ad Uses Campus Newspapers To Spread Inaccurate Propaganda

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April 22nd, 2010

By Guest Blogger Alex DiBranco

The Human Life Alliance provides “educational” resources in the form of a 12-page iCare ad insert to campus newspapers. Yet this so-called advertising supplement is only advertising an ideology, and is riddled with typical anti-choice lies — revealing it as but a part of the right-wing’s ongoing campaign to use media […]

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VIDEO from #140Conf: Joan Walsh, Blaire Kelley, Liza Sabater and Elon James White on Race and Politics on Twitter

jpozners Icon Posted by Jennifer L Pozner

April 21st, 2010

Although the first day of #140Conf (the #140 Conference: The State of Now) was too pale-male-stale, one panel stood out as a highlight not only for the diversity of its participants but for the humor, insight and strategic advice participants brought to the conversation.
In Finding Common Ground: Discussion of issues of race and politics in […]

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Who Will Defend the Rights of People of Color to an Open Internet? We Speak for Ourselves.

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April 7th, 2010

In every competition, there’s a winner and a loser.
The open Internet protections being debated by the Federal Communications Commission right now will determine who wins and who loses in the fight over whether big companies or regular people will control the Internet. I want everyday people to win.
In the fight over who will control the […]

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Susan’s Eye Opening and Instructive Journey

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March 14th, 2010

To be honest, if I didn’t know Rose Arce, the senior producer of CNN Presents’ Her Name was Steven, I probably would not have watched the television documentary. And that would have been a shame.
(Be forewarned, this isn’t a post about how media cover transgender people. For such analysis, see these related posts, this […]

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Half the Sky: Using Multimedia to Help Women Globally

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March 5th, 2010

This past Thursday (March 4), I saw a special, one-night-only nationwide screening of “Half the Sky.” The film, based on a staged event at NYU last fall, is in turn based on the book of the same title by NY Times reporters Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn. It featured readings […]

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