Saturday, 12:15: Right now, at the National Conference of Media Reform, I have the immense pleasure of moderating a panel called “There Is No Media Justice Without Women: Models for Feminist Social Justice Media Activism” with some of the women I respect most in the world — women who are simultaneously as creative, funny and […]

Friday, 2:30pm: I’ve been asked to liveblog from the MAGNET (Media Action Grassroots Network) booth at the National Conference on Media Reform (NCMR2008), where Betty Yu, who will be speaking on the feminist media justice panel tomorrow, is filming video interviews with media activists. We’ll be uploading some of Betty’s videos when she’s done, […]

If you’re not able to be in Minneapolis for the National Conference on Media Reform, you can listen to live streaming video and audio from the opening plenary, here (you can also watch and hear clips from panels, full video and audio from plenaries, and more on a constant basis from now until Sunday).
As she […]

If you’re planning on attending the National Conference on Media Reform (NCMR 2008), I’m excited to invite you to what promises to be a fascinating and compelling conversation between some of the most dynamic, effective women leaders of the multi-faceted media justice movement.
On behalf of Women In Media & News (WIMN), I’m moderating a […]

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.

Women of Color make up a significant portion of the 51% of women in the United States but still the media knows so little about them. The minor facts that are discovered are usually mistaken for the minority instead of the majority. When there are so many issues that cross cultures but the impact on these women’s lives are generally missed by what would be considered “popular culture.”