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Did You Experience Sexism When You Were Pregnant?

5/24/12 12:00am by avengingophelia
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Parents and babies

[Editor's note: When you were pregnant, did people make sexist assumptions about you? They sure did with me. For instance, people just assumed that I'd take care of the baby while my husband did very little because a) he was disinterested, b) he was adorably inept, or c) he was too busy doing "important" stuff like working. They certainly didn't expect him to take paternity leave, which he did. (And thank god, because our son had manic colic.) Avengingophelia at What if No One Is Watching? has a great post on this topic called Pregnant adventures in benign sexism. What's been your experience with sexism in pregnancy? Let us know!-Mona]  Read more

How the Internet and Teen Bloggers Are Shaping the Women's Movement for the Better

5/22/12 12:00am by Mona Gable
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Teenage girls

[Editor’s note: Some of us older feminists--ok me--sometimes find this whole social media world foreign and even impersonal. But one of my favorite blogs is the Fbomb founded by teen Julie Zeilinger. Not only has it become a thriving space for young feminist bloggers, but it has also changed how feminists are organizing and finding each other.  Read more

Is Former CNN Anchor Campbell Brown Biased Against Obama Because of Her Husband?

5/21/12 12:00am by Mona Gable
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Campbell Brown and her husband Dan Senor

[Editor's note: Former CNN anchor Campbell Brown took to the New York Times yesterday to critique President Obama’s speech last week to the women graduates of Barnard. In Brown’s view, the president was pandering and should have focused more on the awful economy and the fact that most of them are not even going to get jobs. Instead, he was so “condescending” and “grating”!  Read more

Is Obama Pandering to Women Voters?

5/16/12 6:15pm by Mona Gable
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President Obama on The View

In case you hadn't heard the shocking news, Obama went on ABC’s The View earlier this week and gabbed about JP Morgan, gay marriage, and Kim Kardashian -- though not necessarily in that order. He also announced that he is going to win the election in November.  Read more >

The Black Church’s Conundrum: What Would Jesus Do?

5/15/12 12:00am by MoniqueRuffin
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Gay women at rally

President Obama’s recent announcement that he believes gay couples should have the right to marry has touched the hearts of millions of Americans, gay and straight. It’s likely we all have gay friends and family members who have suffered due to discrimination, exclusion, and shaming. Personally, I have seen tremendous hatred toward gay people in my family and in the churches I attended as a youth and young adult.   Read more >

Is There Anything Funny about Death? 24 Writers Say Absolutely!

5/14/12 12:00am by VictoriaZackheim
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Funeral flowers

During the eighteen months before my mother's death, I remained at her side. We had a complicated relationship—true of so many mothers and daughters—and she didn't appreciate my daily reminders regarding her medications, her need to walk, the importance of eating. Mom was a visual artist, ardent reader, and political junkie; she didn't go in for idle chatter. As for sharing thoughts or feelings about her illness? Forget it.    Read more >

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 >

Why Photoshopping Won't Go Away--No Matter What Women's Mags Say

5/8/12 9:42am by Mona Gable
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Teen Vogue cover

[Editor's note: This week an earthshaking event happened in women’s magazines. And no, sadly, feisty teenager Julia Bluhm didn’t convince Seventeen magazine to quit using Photoshop to erase its young models’ “flaws.” Although Bluhm’s online campaign has now amassed more than 60,000 signatures.  Read more

The Date Rape Story I'll Some Day Share with My Daughters

5/7/12 10:22am by shannoncolleary
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Young Woman on Beach

When I awoke that bright spring morning of March 21st, 1986, in a pensione in Venice, Italy, I didn’t expect the day to end on a dark, deserted beach with a boy I'd just met pinning me to the ground hissing in my ear that he had "un coltello" (a knife) and that "ho intenzione di ucciderti" (he'd kill me) if I didn't "f--k" him.  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 >