"carol-stiff" Articles & Blogs:
Equality Watch: First Female British Poet Laureate
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It only took 341 years but Britain has finally appointed a woman and lesbian as its poet laureate. Carol Ann Duffy was named to the post taking over for Andrew Motion who resigned.
Some of her accomplishments:
Her 1999 collection The World’s Wife, wh...[Read on] |
Come out to support girls in Africa
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In early 2009, our good friends Carol Ann Gleason, Founder and Director of Stimulus Projects and NYC-based Photographer Danielle St. Laurent teamed up to launch the Geo-Girls Citizen Journalism Program at the Kibera Girls Soccer Academy in Nairobi, Kenya...[Read on] |
Quick Hit: Two Women Win Nobel Prize
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Americans Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider (along with Jack W. Szostak) won the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine today for discovering a key mechanism in the genetic operations of cells, an insight that has inspired new lines of research into cancer.
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Moira Forbes Becomes Company's First Female Publisher With ForbesWoman
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As many media outlets shed jobs, Forbes launches new brand for professional working women balancing life and workForbesWoman, Moira Forbes | Today 12:10 pm
As some media outlets lay off people left and right, Moira Forbes has launched a new brand target...[Read on] |
All aboard for Disney's train tour
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Disney is pulling out all the whistle stops and taking its show on the road with a spectacular immersive and interactive 40-city train tour including a 3D sneak peek of film footage from the upcoming movie "Disney's A Christmas Carol."
Looking for so...[Read on] |
Gee Whiz, Women Do Write Good Books
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Unlike the Publishers Weekly year end list which included no women, the NY Times has included a bunch of women on its 10 best list of 2009. In fact, 4 of the 5 fiction books are by women.
Here they are. Full list will appear in the December 13 book r...[Read on] |
Quick Hit: Jennifer's Body and feminism in horror flicks
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My colleague Alexandra Gutierrez reviews the much-anticipated Jennifer's Body and -- surprise! -- concludes that it's not a worthy heir to horror's feminist traditions
In their efforts to create a feminist horror film, [Diablo] Cody and [Karyn] Kusama ma...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood: Women to Watch
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What a great idea. The people who run the Cultural Leadership Programme in the UK know that there is a leadership disparity between men and women in the arts. Lots of times the issue is that the women are just not visible enough in order to get that n...[Read on] |
Fast Females: A 45-year-old and a filly plunder expectations and find victory
| By Laura Pappano
That blur you see is a 45-year-old woman breaking a record. (OK, snapping with an iPhone enhances the effect in this case).
That’s right. Yesterday at the Stratton Faxon New Haven Road Race — which was also the Men’s and W...[Read on] |
2009 WNBA Draft: A journey back to my love for women’s basketball
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I’ve played basketball my entire life.
Ever since I was little, l knew that I loved the game. From eighth grade all the way through graduation from my NCAA Division III college, I pretty much obsessed over rankings, new prospects and players of the wee...[Read on] |
"An honor to have a player like" Marion Jones
| Marion Jones - of who many start their sentences with former track star, former disgraced Olympian or even WNBA gimmick is looking to melt away some of the preconceived stereotypes and notions, replacing them with WNBA basketball player or perhaps even wi...[Read on] |
NY Times book review discovers women writers
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Everybody knows that women are the ones that buy books. I’ve heard statistics that say that women buy upwards of 60% of all books. But the NY Times Book Review has always been a boy’s club. Happily, this week the section was actually readable an...[Read on] |
Women are Everywhere: National Book Critics Circle Finalists
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Remember way back in November when Publisher’s Weekly came up with a list of the top 10 books (not best selling books) of the year and not a single one was written by a woman? Lo and behold the National Book Critics Circle disagrees a bit and has nomi...[Read on] |
Ten Memoirs By Unforgettable Women
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“Everyone has at least one good book in them.” The memoir, especially in recent years, has often proved this adage true. When all else fails, writers usually turn to their personal lives for inspiring material that will get the ink flowing.
The foll...[Read on] |
The London Film Festival Announces Its Lineup
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The fall festivals are finalizing their lineups and what has become clear to me as I track the films and the presence of women directors is that the festivals usually have a core list of films that go from festival to festival as they make their runs to...[Read on] |
Female Bullying or Just Another Attack Against Successful Women?
| The media loves a fresh angle that undermines women’s hard earned success. The New York Times Business section (1/11/09) ran an article, “A Sisterhood Of Workplace Infighting” by Peggy Klaus. Ms. Klaus, a leadership consultant, writes a...[Read on] |
A clean car is a cool car!
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Cleaning a car is a piece of cake,
right? Certainly, if you follow the
procedures suggested by the Car Care
Council.
While it's the most basic procedure
in car care, it does deserve some thought.
The fi...[Read on] |
Breaking the Mold: Interracial & Intercultural Relationships
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It is agreed that the feelings one has for her partner should be the most important element in a thriving relationship, regardless of race or religion. That being said, it’s hard to believe anyone would be anything but accepting of a loving, healthy rel...[Read on] |
Five myths (and the truths behind them) about car care
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It doesn't matter where you live, summer has pretty much arrived! I celebrated the season's arrival by washing and hand waxing my own car this weekend, removing the winter's grime and restoring the worn paint to a shiny lustrous glow I had forgotten it c...[Read on] |
What’s up with the cupcake craze?
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If the Muffin Man really does live on Drury Lane, he has some stiff competition just around the corner. I recently discovered this rivalry as I was strolling through trendy Covent Garden, London in search of a quaint British café for High Tea. What I ...[Read on] |
My Date With Freedom
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New York is in its most amazing prime: fall.The leaves are changing, the weather is ideal for a light weight everything, and each sight you see is just absolutely gorgeous. To celebrate the majesty of the season, I decided to take myself on a date. ...[Read on] |
Father’s Day Chick Picks
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Oh, Father’s Day. It’s a glorious event that we’re all totally looking forward to, right?
No, no, for me that’s actually completely wrong. I find that shopping for gifts, in general, can be a fierce challenge. But when you add in the Dad factor, ...[Read on] |
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