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In my last blog post, I wrote a little about how I feel the media simply isn’t doing enough collectively to keep this wonderful nation as educated as it once was. To add fuel to the fire, the way women are presented among the media airways simply isn’t via a powerful perspective, and for women to gain power in the world, that must change. Because while it is inspiring to hope for, Beyoncé isn’t completely right…women do not run the world….yet! :-)
Fortunately there are some publications, organizations and websites that recognize this and are doing more to empower media and promote ethical presentation among the airways…sites such as The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media and Media Matters For America. But I’m not sure how many people actually know about some of these wonderful sources. So I am using this blog post to promote websites and media outlets that, in my opinion, see women as serious, amazing human beings. I feel these outlets promote women as real people and not plastic Barbie images who care about nothing more than their weight and their looks. By the way, check out Adios Barbie when you get a chance too. It’s a great site about women and images, and the original promoters of the internet game you may want to play called Feed the Model!
I hope you will take the time to explore these sites and magazines, and share them with the people in your life, especially women and girls. I also hope that you will learn something about women that you didn’t know before that is more valuable than bikini waxes and which purse color is currently in style. On a side-note, and to show my respect, I probably should thank the old-style forms of media that brought women into the press spotlight in the first place. One step can lead to another, but now a greater step needs to be taken…kind of like a giant step on the moon sort of thing. But it needs to be "one giant leap for WOMANkind." The incredible Gloria Steinem started the change with Ms. Magazine, but now media outlets need to grow more in a positive way for women. So I hope you enjoy these sites…and hey, maybe the first American female president will read/ watch/ listen to some of these too. I will update this list from time to time.
Great Sites to Promote Women in the Media:
WE NEWS
http://womensenews.org
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
http://www.thegeenadavisinstitute.org
WWC: The Women’s Media Center
http://womensmediacenter.com
Women’s Views On News
http://www.womensviewsonnews.org
Media Matters For America
http://mediamatters.org
Our America with Lisa Ling
http://www.oprah.com/own-our-america-lisa-ling/our-america-blog.html
Adios Barbie
http://www.adiosbarbie.com
Ms. Magazine and the Ms. Magazine Blog
http://www.msmagazine.comhttp://www.msmagazine.com/blog
Womens Radio
http://www.facebook.com/womensradio
Lilith Magazine
http://www.lilith.org
Bitch Media (from the creators of BITCH Magazine)
http://bitchmagazine.org
Forbes Woman
http://www.forbes.com/forbeswoman
EmpowHER
http://www.empowher.com
FEMME-O-NOMICS
http://femme-o-nomics.com
EVE (Equal Visibility Everywhere)
http://equalvisibilityeverywhere.org
FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION
http://feminist.org
Pink News Blog
http://www.pinknews.co.uk
FEMINISTING Blog
http://feministing.com
Women’s Voices For Change
http://womensvoicesforchange.org
Rights of Women
http://www.rightsofwomen.org.uk
World News with Diane Sawyer
http://abcnews.go.com/WN
Latina Lista
http://www.latinalista.net/home
Alliance of Faith & Feminism
http://www.faithfeminism.org
Mother Jones
http://motherjones.com
This Week with Christiane Amanpour
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek
Sherights Blog
http://sherights.com
Yes! Magazine
http://www.yesmagazine.org/about
National Public Radio (NPR)
http://www.npr.org/
Slate/ XX Factor Web Magazine
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor.html
On The Issues Magazine
http://www.ontheissuesmagazine.com
The Rachel Maddow Show
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show
National Council For Research on Women (NCR)
http://www.ncrw.org
OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network)
http://www.oprah.com/own
Blog Her Publishing Network :-)
http://www.blogher.com
Until next time, you can follow me on twitter! @eves_identity.
