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MAKERS: Women Shaping Our World

5/8/12 3:15pm by TEDxWomen
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Makers

Good news this week — we've got something extraordinary to tell you about. MAKERS is a video initiative to share the stories of hundreds of women. When you go to the MAKERS website, you can watch interviews with the leaders, thinkers, reformers and pioneers who have shaped and continue to shape our world. We're particularly proud of TEDxWomen and TEDWomen speakers featured in this endeavor, including Courtney E. Martin, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Rachel Simmons and Gloria Steinem. And on Monday we were thrilled to be present at The Paley Center, when Pat Mitchell, as ever TEDxWomen's hostess with the mostest, welcomed the women behind MAKERS to share about the origins of the project.  Read more >

Amanda Hesser is Changing The Online Food Community

5/4/12 10:14am by KathrynFinney
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Amanda Hesser, Food Writer and Female CEO of Food52.com

If you were to put Game Changer Amanda Hesser’s life on a timeline, you would notice that food, specifically good food, is a constant presence. From growing up in rural Pennsylvania to a successful career as a food writer for The New York Times (over 750 stories!), food as both subject and object has had a profound impact on Amanda’s life. Photo credit --Sarah Shatz  Read more >

Hats Off to the Powerful and Remarkable Women in Our Lives

5/4/12 12:00am by Renee Blodgett
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Grandmother and granddaughter

This week, I couldn't stop thinking about them. Among "them" was not THE woman in my life who guided me, took care of me, shaped me. That was my grandmother and like most grandmothers of women in their forties, they're no longer a phone call away.  Read more >

Good-Bye, Adrienne Rich: Poet Dead at 82

3/28/12 3:59pm by Julie Ross Godar
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Adrienne Rich (screen grab of video embed)

The Los Angeles Times reports that feminist poet and essayist Adrienne Rich has died. Rich wrote about social inequity, the calamity of war. She wrote about sex and power. And love. I loved her ideas but was in love with her language. From "In the Classroom" -- Talking of poetry, hauling the books arm-full to the table where the heads bend or gaze upward, listening, reading aloud, talking of consonants, elision...  Read more >

Brutal Arrest at Bank of America on International Womens Day

3/9/12 1:58pm by Nancy Hill
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Codepink protester arrested

There was a protest yesterday at a bank as part of the observance of International Women's Day.  Read more >

10 Insanely Easy Ways to Celebrate International Women's Day

3/8/12 2:47pm by Julie Ross Godar
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International Women's Day 2012, Athens (Credit Image: © Aristidis Vafeiadakis/ZU

It's International Women's Day, and I wish the United States made a bigger deal about it. (As Rene Lynch noted in the L.A. Times: "World Celebrates; We Get Google Doodle." Fortunately, working at BlogHer makes one a pro at celebrating women in a hurry. Here's what's on my list during my busy afternoon so that March 8 does not go unmarked:  Read more >

Sexual Harassment: How Anita Hill Made A Difference

10/19/11 12:00am by Mona Gable
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Anita Hill

Twenty years ago, I watched, along with millions of other Americans, the riveting confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas for the U.S. Supreme Court. What I remember most is Anita Hill’s unassailable dignity as she testified about the pubic hair and the Coke. Wikipedia  Read more

Hooray! Three Women Win the Nobel Peace Prize!

10/7/11 3:06pm by Mona Gable
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Nobel Prize Winner

One organized a sex strike to end Liberia’s brutal civil war. Another became Africa’s first female president after galvanizing Liberian women to march for peace. The third, a journalist and mother of three, is fighting for democracy in Yemen. When she heard she’d won the Nobel Peace Prize, sharing it with two African sisters, Tawakul Karman was out protesting in the streets. No wonder she’s known as the “Mother of the Revolution”?  Read more >

On Wangari Maathai: The World Loses A Feminist Environmentalist

9/28/11 12:00am by Mona Gable
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Wangari Maathai

[Editor’s note: Dr. Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. By paying women to plant trees, the Kenyan environmentalist inspired feminists and activists everywhere. When she died last weekend of ovarian cancer, African bloggers poured out their love for her. Ndesnajo Macha at GlobalVoicesOnline has selected quotes from some of their moving tributes to Maathai.—Mona] She writes: SW Maina describes her as a woman who refused to bow:  Read more

Be A Model! Strike A Pose!

8/23/11 12:00am by Mona Gable
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Fashion Model

[Have you ever looked at photos of high-fashion models and thought how unnatural they are? What normal woman stands like a stork with one hand flung dramatically over her head? Seriously. Spanish artist Yolanda Dominguez noticed those photos, too, and uses them as fodder in a fascinating video called “Poses.” You’ll never look at Vogue the same way again. Rob Alderson at It’s Nice That did a fun interview with the artist where she talked about feminism and her inspiration for “Poses."-–Mona] He writes:  Read more