I’m representing Women In Media & News (WIMN) at two events today at the National Conference on Media Reform (NCMR11), and I hope to see many of you at one or both:
BOOK SIGNING:
Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV on Saturday, 10:30-11am, in the main exhibition hall. As a sneak peek, […]

I watched a woman be sacrificed by my community, and I felt betrayed. As Cleveland draws its lines around race, power and reputation, I wonder if girls there—white, black, Latina and Asian—feel like I once did, scrutinized by outsiders looking in, but abandoned at home.

I came across this display at The Gap a few days ago. Not exactly subtle, eh?
From skinny pretzels and skinny soda cans to skinny water (yes, skinny water) and Skinnygirl Margarita, courtesy of reality star, Bethany Frankel, we’re a culture saturated with messages about getting skinny, staying skinny, and as The Gap proclaims, remaining […]

A magazine cover shows a marijuana leaf and a stiletto heel in the shape of a gun. One newspaper regularly divides its front page with a preening bikini clad woman and cadavers.

BAY AREA EVENT REMINDER from WIMN and the International Museum of Women:
Nov. 16: Whose Reality? Exposing Gender, Race and Commercial Biases in Reality TV
11/16/2010: 12pm - 1:30pm
A conversation with Jennifer Siebel Newsom, documentarian, actress and First Lady of San Francisco, and Jennifer L. Pozner, Executive Director of Women In Media & News, media critic, author, […]

New York friends, I’m looking forward to seeing you at Bluestockings bookstore tonight at 7pm for my first book reading for Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV. Details below. Come early to guarantee yourself a seat. It may be crowded.
The following event invitations are reposted from Tuesday.
Hey New Yorkers: are […]

Today, in conjunction with the official publication of Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV, I’m excited to debut a satirical book trailer and webisode series, “Reality Rehab with Dr. Jenn“– where all your favorite reality TV stock characters come to get deprogrammed:

Meet the Cast

Meet the Production Team

In addition to the trailer, […]

Fantastic outburst on Larry King against Flanders’ latest book on Tea Parties.

For the first video in our new investigative series, GRITtv Digs, we’re looking into the “Freedom Rides for Life” and the anti-abortion movement’s targeting of women of color, particularly black women in the South, using racially divisive tactics.

The following is a transcript:
Laura:
An attack is ratcheting up on women’s reproductive freedoms with an […]

In June I was asked to be on a panel entitled, “Influential Voices.” Yes, this still embarrasses me! Me? Influential? But as I sat there and was asked what I thought I was bringing to the conversation online by blogging, it hit me…hard. “I bring a Latina voice. A unique Latina voice to every conversation.” […]