This goes out to all our Bay Area friends — WIMN’s having a party on July 17, and I hope to see you there. Feel free to forward this post to any Bay Area journalists, media producers, media activists, feminists, progressives and others who you think might like to eat, drink, network and collaborate.
–Jenn
You’re invited! […]

Everyone’s trying to win the female vote, but women aren’t stupid.

Britain’s Missing Top Model began last night on the BBC network. This new reality show has eight women with disabilities competing to become a top-model. As you can imagine this show can offer some real insights for people without disabilities to better understand those who live with disabilities. Also for people living with disabilities a […]

Jake Tapper, ABC News Senior National Correspondent, in his blog “Political Punch” June 27 post “McCain Gambles with Awkward Joke” started a bit of a blog-o-flap among some feminists who though the senator’s remark about wife beating grossly inappropriate and perhaps insensitive to domestic abuse. Here’s the relevant excerpt:

In an interview with the Las Vegas Sun, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was asked by columnist Jon Ralston why he didn’t choose Gov. Jim Gibbons to chair his Nevada campaign…
Maybe it’s the governor’s approval rating and you are running from him like you are from the president? Asked Ralston in a question McCain clearly found loaded.
Said McCain, chuckling, “And I stopped beating my wife just a couple of weeks ago.”

By Guest Blogger Faye Anderson

After a 12-year run, Tavis Smiley gave his last commentary on the “Tom Joyner Morning Show.” In summing up what Tavis meant to the TJMS, Tom Joyner wrote:
Before Tavis came on board, I was happy with almost every element of our show, but something was missing. I had the vision of […]

“Should the women have equal property rights as men?” These kind of debates are slowly being given prominence in the media and the reply to many especially women is: “ Absolutely. Women have made great contributions at their homes and to the country at large. We should not rely on outdated culture that […]

By Guest Blogger Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser

How does a mostly white, depressed, blue-collar, Catholic community explain a steep spike in teen pregnancies amongst its high school girls after they’ve made a “pregnancy pact?” One explanation appeared in Time magazine:
“Families are broken,” says school superintendent Christopher Farmer. “Many of our young people are growing up […]

By Guest Blogger Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser

Oh, that Discovery Health channel, how it loves a non-traditional family. Most recent proof: the documentary Quads With Two Moms. Karen Wesolowski, 42, and Martha Padgett, 38 wanted to add to their family (Martha brought a daughter, Julia, now 11, from a previous marriage to her relationship with Karen). […]

By Guest Blogger Faye Anderson

In a recent appearance on FOX News Channel, syndicated columnist Cal Thomas complained that black women on television are “usually angry about something”:

It’s beyond belief that a talking-head on a cable network that labeled Michelle Obama, who is married to the (Democratic nominee for president and also) father of her children, […]

Encouraging news and views from an unusual group of rural women film-makers in India could help dispel some of the gloom caused by the ongoing global food crisis…