"brenda-villa" Articles & Blogs:
Does Prop 8 Decision Prove 'California Supreme Court Lost Its Way'?
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Brenda Feigen can’t understand why the California Supreme Court doesn’t support same-sex marriageA Friend Stopped By | Today 1:00 am
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Editor’s Note: Brenda Feigen is counsel to Kenoff & Machtinger,
LLP, where she practices anti-...[Read on] |
White House Roundtable celebrates Title IX’s 37th anniversary
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Today, the Women’s Sports Foundation represents the female athletes of the United States in a celebration of the anniversary of Title IX by visiting the White House for a special roundtable discussion.
“At 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 23, the White Hou...[Read on] |
Interview with Greer Shepard, Executive Producer of The Closer
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The Closer started its fifth! season last week and Kyra Sedgwick is back as Brenda Lee Johnson the sweet talking, crime solving Deputy Chief of LAPD’s major crime squad. I very much enjoy the show. It is on TNT at 9pm on Monday nights. The show ha...[Read on] |
Degenderizing Disney
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I find it pretty hysterical that the folks at Disney are freaking out and changing the names of their movies so they don’t alienate boys who won’t come and see a movie with the name princess in the title. Of course they would never freak out if girl...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood: New Movies Alert
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Lisa Cholodenko
Just read about two new movies where two sets of women play lovers.
Annette Bening and Julianne Moore star as partners and mothers in Kids. The film is about their kids’ search for their sperm donor (played by Mark Ruffalo) altering ...[Read on] |
Disney Swears off Princesses
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In a move that should have progressive minded parents across the country and the world cheering, Disney last week said that they would no longer be producing fairy tale movies, and folks that means no more princess movies.
No more big pink dresses, no ...[Read on] |
Read On: Pretty Tough Book Club
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Last month I received a note from a teacher at Apopka High School in Apopka, Florida who is a huge fan of ”Pretty Tough” by Liz Tigelaar, the first book in our young adult fiction series.
JoJo says, “I loved it as a teacher who sees students...[Read on] |
Keep Your Inner Child Alive: Children’s Books We All Loved
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In 1962, Philippe Ariés published a revolutionary work titled Centuries of Childhood. As part of his research, Ariés drew on a variety of sources, including paintings from the 1700s, which depicted children not as kids but as miniature adults. He asser...[Read on] |
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