WIMN Executive Director, Jennifer L. Pozner, haven’t been blogging much in recent months as she’s been working on her forthcoming book, Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV. Tomorrow night, on behalf of WIMNs multimedia lecture series, she’ll be presenting:
Project Brainwash!: Why Reality TV Is Bad for Women (…and men, people of […]

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Seriously, even Vogue has an annual “Shape” issue where they patronizingly allow someone as (*GASP*) huge as Beyonce or Kate Winslet on the cover in addition to their usual sub-zero model roundup… then offer drastic dieting tips… all while mysteriously claiming to promote body acceptance: And don’t miss the small print under the […]

I’ve been twittering about Fox’s new plus-sized dating show, “More To Love,” at @jennpozner and @RealityTVBook (and will livetweet it tonight), and I invite you to join me at Twitter tonight with questions and comments about the debut episode.
Ironically, I haven’t had time to blog about this show — or much else — lately, because […]

If you’re one of the hundreds of people whose smiling (if sleepy) people I’m passing by in the hallways of MIT at the WAM!2009 (Women, Action & Media) conference, I want to remind you of several ways you can catch Women In Media & News (WIMN) staff members, board members and WIMN’s Voices bloggers throughout […]

As I’ve posted previously, Women In Media & News is proud to be a supporting sponsor of WAM!2009, the annual Women, Action and Media conference.
Organized by the Center for New Words and held at MIT in Cambridge, MA, WAM! brings together journalists and media makers from corporate and independent spheres, feminist activists, media scholars, […]

Since it’s nearly 1am and I’m blogging from a spotty wifi connection at a hotel in Corvallis, OR, this is just going to be a quick follow-up to yesterday’s post about WIMN’s lecture tour in Oregon this week.
So, quick reminder: I hope all of you in the Portland, OR area will come out to […]

Hi all! Haven’t been blogging much in recent months as I’ve been working on my forthcoming book, Reality Bites Back: How Guilty Pleasure TV Is Making Us Sexist, Shallow and Socially Irresponsible. But I couldn’t let two stop on WIMN’s multimedia lecture tour go by without mention. I’ll be conducting the following multimedia presentation in […]

Hi all. Haven’t been blogging much in the last few months because I’ve taken time away from the blog to focus on a more in-depth aspect of our media analysis program — a book on reality TV (Reality Bites Back: How Guilty Pleasure TV Is Making Us Sexist, Shallow and Socially Irresponsible), which will […]

OK, compared to all I’ve complained about related to the media since we founded WIMN’s Voices years ago, what I’m about to gripe about is piddly. But after three years of using this blog to elevate public debate about media, gender and politics, I’m going to indulge in what most people usually use blogs for […]

Quick reminder: as I previously blogged here, I will be presenting WIMN’s multimedia lecture, “Bachelor Babes, Bridezillas & Husband-Hunting Harems: Unraveling Reality TV’s Twisted Fairy Tales” at Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, VA on October 2, 7:30 pm.
This is the only stop on WIMN’s fall lecture tour that isn’t focused on media coverage of the […]