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A group of Latina moms in Chicago are engaging in one of the most inspiring and sustained protests in years, far from the corporate media (and even feminist media) spotlight.
For more than three weeks, these mothers have been occupying the field house of the Whittier Dual Language Elementary School. Their goal: prevent the […]
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Feminism, Human Rights & Civil Liberties, Immigration, Political Dissent, Latina/o Community, Parenthood & Family, Race, WIMN’s Executive Director’s Blog, Outrages & Responsibilities |
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By Guest Blogger Joanna Brooks
The following is reprinted with permission from Religion Dispatches. You can sign up for their free daily newsletter here.
After watching the series premiere of Sister Wives, TLC’s new reality series about fundamentalist Mormon polygamist Kody Brown and his three—wait, now, four?!!—wives and thirteen—wait, now, sixteen?!!—children, what I find most remarkable is […]
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Advertising, American Culture, Parenthood & Family, Pop Culture, Reality TV |
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NYC EVENT REMINDER: Tonight is my last planned talk on reality TV for the spring and summer, and I’m happy to bring WIMN’s spring multimedia lecture tour to a close in my own backyard — Brooklyn!
WHAT: Jennifer L. Pozner delivers Annual McKinney Social Justice Lecture
WHERE: First Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn, Pierrepont Street and Monroe […]
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Advertising, African Americans in Entertainment, American Culture, Asian American community, Commercialism, Feminism, Health & Sexuality, Political Dissent, Latina/o Community, LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Issues, Parenthood & Family, Pop Culture, Race, WIMN’s Executive Director’s Blog, Girls and LGBT Youth, Outrages & Responsibilities, Body Image, Reality TV |
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In 1973, the federal government started to pay for abortions for very poor women under Medicaid. It took three years until the Hyde amendment put a stop to it.
In addition, abortion services are not […]
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American Culture, Criminal Justice & Prisons, Economics, Feminism, Health & Sexuality, Native American Community, Parenthood & Family, Violence Against Women, Issues in the News |
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By Guest Bloggers Melissa Harris-Lacewell and Courtney Young
The never-ending story “Why Can’t a Successful Black Woman Find a Man?” received another public forum on Wednesday night. This time it was neither BET nor TV One spewing the oft repeated statistic that 43% of black women have never been married. This time it was […]
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African Americans in Entertainment, Age, American Culture, Domestic Politics, Economics, Feminism, Health & Sexuality, Parenthood & Family, Race, Issues in the News |
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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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Advertising, American Culture, Domestic Politics, Feminism, Health & Sexuality, Human Rights & Civil Liberties, Parenthood & Family, Reproductive Justice, Violence Against Women, Girls and LGBT Youth, Youth Activism, Outrages & Responsibilities |
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[UPDATE, 5:15pm: This segment has just been canceled. Sorry for any confusion; that’s the way live news sometimes goes.]
DVR ALERT: I’m going to be on “Geraldo At Large” on Fox News tonight at 10pm, to discuss media coverage of reality TV star Kate Gosselin.
Gosselin, currently featured on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars,” has been […]
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American Culture, The Blogosphere, Parenthood & Family, Pop Culture, WIMN’s Executive Director’s Blog, Reality TV |
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By Guest Bloggers Lilith and Jezebel, Evil Slut Clique
As the mother of a tween, I watch a lot of “tween TV.” I started to notice that while many of the current hit shows on Disney and Nickelodeon are vastly different on the surface they’re really all the same show.
(And yes, I know I […]
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Advertising, African Americans in Entertainment, Age, American Culture, Commercialism, Feminism, Health & Sexuality, Parenthood & Family, Pop Culture, Race, Girls and LGBT Youth, Body Image |
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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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American Culture, Arms & Conflict, Economics, Feminism, Health & Sexuality, Human Rights & Civil Liberties, International Media Activism, Parenthood & Family, Reproductive Justice, Technology & Communication, US Foreign Policy, Violence Against Women, Issues in the News |
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As I sit against the florescence of the television screen, watching the conservative Fox News pundit Glenn Beck drive political nails into progressive leaders using the fear of U.S. blacks and immigrants of color as his hammer, my memory harkens back to the year in which the book Push was set, 1987. During that time, […]
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African Americans in Entertainment, Age, American Culture, Commercialism, Criminal Justice & Prisons, Domestic Politics, Drugs, Economics, Feminism, Health & Sexuality, Human Rights & Civil Liberties, Political Dissent, Legal & Political Affairs, LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Issues, Media Justice Now, Parenthood & Family, Pop Culture, Race, Violence Against Women, Girls and LGBT Youth, Body Image |
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