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Mother daughter team create new TV show

Being a formerly fat person myself who struggles with food issues each and every day I was really surprised, happy and cautious to see the new ABC Family TV show Huge. But I did breathe a sigh of relief when I saw that it was co-created by Winnie Holzman

The Art of the Mixed Tape

Imagine you were handed an array of crayons, markers, paint, glitter - the works - and left in a plain, white room for as long as you needed to make your artistic vision, whatever it may be, come to life before your eyes. There are no rules, you don’

Potentially life-saving personal safety app designed by a mom for her kids

Silent Bodyguard iPhone App Sends SOS and GPS Location Without Alerting Onlookers or an Attacker

ChickSpeak hearts Chelsea Handler

She’s hilarious, honest, adorable, and above all else, she’s definitely someone id love to be friends with. She’s the uber talented Chelsea Handler, and chances are she’s soon to be coming to a city near you. Handler, the hysterical host of her

SOCIAL ISSUES

PETA Graphically Propagates Violence Against Women

Originally found on Buzzfeed Everyone knows PETA hates women, using them as pawns to get money and p...more

Margaret Cho drops a bomb

(AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) Here’s a doozy. Leave it to Jessica Wakeman via the frisky to get som...more

Skirting The Issues: Erase Gray Areas Surrounding Rape Cases

What do you think of when you think of rape? Walking down a dark city street alone late at night, a ...more

Help Pass IVAWA and Help to End Violence Against Women

From the time we are old enough to face bullies, have cooties and be pushed down for being a girl -w...more

Domestic Violence Week in Memory of Yeardley Love

Yeardley Love’s life was filled with promise. At 22 years old and just weeks away from graduation ...more

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THEATRE

Marcia Milgrom Dodge: A Director’s Story

Marcia Milgrom Dodge has been working as a theatre director for 30 years. This past year she made it to Broadway for the first time with the critically-lauded production of Ragtime. The show did not make it, but Milgrom Dodge and the production receiv...more

The Tonys and Hollywood

photo by Brian Bedder/Getty Images Last night one of the things that was so interesting about the Tony Awards was that three of the four acting trophies were taken by current Hollywood actors. Catherine Zeta-Jones won best actress in a musical for A ...more

The Lilly Awards — Kristin Chenoweth’s Statement

On Monday night a packed house gathered at Playwrights Horizons people in NYC to celebrate women working in theatre. A bunch of people including playwrights Theresa Rebeck and Marsha Norman who call themselves the “Committee for the Recognition of Out...more

Theatre women create awards in honor of Lillian Hellman

This year a bunch of very high profile theatre writers and others decided that they were tired of women’s work being constantly unacknowledged, so they created The Lilly awards which will honor 17 women theater artists, as well as Mary Rodgers who will ...more

Theatre Watch: Life pretty much sucked for women on Broadway this year

Even though women buy the lion’s share of theatre tickets, it still seems that it is virtually impossible for women playwrights to get their shows mounted on Broadway. Usually there are great roles from women in male written shows, but this year there...more

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