"movement-of-life" Articles & Blogs:
Editing Sarah Palin for accuracy
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In my day job, I'm an editor. Which is why it's hard for me to look at quotes like this, from Sarah Palin...
"The pro-life movement is pro-women, and it empowers women with the message that we are strong enough and smart enough to be able to pursue educa...[Read on] |
Limbaugh: "I love the women's movement, especially when walking behind it."
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Ah, Rush Limbaugh. Always so charming.
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Thanks to Think Progress, who also point out that Limbaugh held a "Female Summit" to find out how he could "own women."
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Not Oprah's Book Club: Quiverfull
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Model daughters of the patriarchy movement, the Botkin girls express a hatred of feminism that is pure, and they hate it in a variety of flavors most feminists wouldn't recognize as their cause. To the Botkins, all bad women--from the seductress hoping to...[Read on] |
Saying Goodbye to Hollywood's Queen: Elizabeth Taylor
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With great sadness here at BUST HQ, we say goodbye to one of Hollywood’s leading ladies. Elizabeth Taylor died early this morning at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California from congestive heart failure at the age of 79. A...[Read on] |
Run for Congo Women
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This is pretty good.
A few weeks ago, the New York Times Magazine highlighted a number of individuals as part of a series about grassroots work being done worldwide to help others in need. One of the women profiled, along with her mission, caught our at...[Read on] |
Nora Ephron to Women Directors and Writers: Stop Whining and Just Do It
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Ariel Levy who has been kicking some serious ass in writing profiles in the New Yorker of late, spent some time with Nora Ephron as she readies Julie & Julia for release next month. (You can only read the article online if you have a subscription to the...[Read on] |
Jiffy Lube to raise $1 Million to fight heart disease
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Just three weeks into its "2010 Maintenance Partners For Life Campaign," Jiffy Lube has already reached more than 65 percent of its $1 million national fundraising.
Through the generous support of its customers, as of February 22 Jiffy Lube has already ...[Read on] |
ChickSpeak Celebrates Female Heroes: Past, Present and Future
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Independence Day is one of my favorite holidays. I am so proud and blessed to be an American. Running the risk of sounding cliché, the United States truly is the land of opportunity. While watching the current events unfold in the Middle East and in othe...[Read on] |
Pappano on Title IX: “It’s been slow progress and we certainly are not there yet.”
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The institutionalization of any movement’s ideals – whether that be educational ideals at the local level or political ideals at the national level – is often a double-edged sword: although it may represent a “victory&rdquo...[Read on] |
Clarifying “The Myth About Exercise”
| Every Saturday I look forward to the TIME magazine in my mail. I know I can read it all online, but there is something satisfying about print media. As someone trained in sport science (aka, Kinesiology) this week’s cover story by John Cloud ...[Read on] |
Tina Fey and What She Means to Women
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I’ve been watching this week at how Tina Fey has gotten bashed my my fellow feminist writers for her shtick on last week’s Saturday Night Live. Some of the criticism began even earlier with discussions of the “Liz Lemoning of TV” and her constan...[Read on] |
Yes! (Or, Oh No): Time's The State of the American Woman
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A comprehensive report shows that women have made their way to the top in several aspects of career and life — but with that has come an additional burden that our mothers never felt … Share with us an anecdote in your life that helped carry u...[Read on] |
Shawn Johnson wins Dancing with the Stars 2009
| Olympic Gymnast Shawn Johnson was crowned winner of Dancing with the Stars season 8 after performing a very confident Cha Cha with partner Mark Ballas.
After seeing Shawn’s very first dance at the beginning of the season I was skeptical that she would ...[Read on] |
Friday Night Lights: The Discussion Continues
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by Stephanie Drahan, Outreach AssociateNational Women's Law Center
Last week, I blogged about the incredible Friday Night Lights episode depicting a teenage girl’s decision to have an abortion, and I expressed my concern that this storyline might disa...[Read on] |
Nia Vardalos Gets It Done … and Then Some
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From adoption to moviemaking to fashion, the star of ‘My Life in Ruins’ knows that sometimes you just have to do it yourselfQ & A | Today 12:00 am
Editor’s Note: Nia Vardalos became a household name when she wrote and starred in 20...[Read on] |
Smart Women Take Heart: Your Love Life Is Fine
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(WOMENSENEWS)--What should smart ambitious women with some measure of career fulfillment do to prove they're not miserable and sexless? Hold a mass demonstration with smiley-face banners?
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The 30 Most Ridiculous Character Names on All My Children and One Life to Live
| Today ABC announced that soap operas All My Children and One Life to Live will conclude in September and January, respectively. We don’t watch either of those shows, but if we had to guess, we’d say both will end with some sort of scandalous big revea...[Read on] |
Taliban Assassinates Afghan Women's Rights Activist Sitara Achakzai
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Two Taliban agents shot Sitara Achakzai outside her home SundayThe Taliban, Assassination | Today 11:55 am
The Taliban successfully struck out against Afghanistan’s women’s right movement Sunday when they assassinated one of the nation’...[Read on] |
George W. Bush Penning Book on Presidential Decisions
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George W. Bush is hard at work on a book about his life’s greatest decisionsGeorge W. Bush | Today 10:45 am
George W. Bush is keeping his forthcoming memoir simple.
Rather than rambling on and on about his life, the former president will inste...[Read on] |
5 reasons you should get active with your BFF
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We all have that friend who hates to exercise. Maybe she’s naturally thin and feels like she doesn’t have to work out. Or maybe she never found a sport that she enjoys and is too intimidated to start now. Whatever the reason, her lack of movement coul...[Read on] |
The power of the telephone: feminism, sports and social change
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Billie Jean King. Photo credit: Blog.taragana.com/sports
I’ve been blogging the past couple of weeks about social media and its impact upon women in sport – mainly due to my own personal interests but also to fulfill a class requirement. This week,...[Read on] |
Elizabeth Taylor: An Immortal Who Knew How to Live
| Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor playing gin while on vacation at La Fiorentina, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, 1967. Photo credit: Condé Nast Archive. When the stunning news reached New York that George Gershwin had died after undergoing surgery for a brain ...[Read on] |
Vancouver 2010 Olympics Watch: Ice Dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White
| Charlie White and Meryl Davis. Courtesy of NBC/USOC. At the U.S. Figure Skating Championships this weekend, Charlie White, 22, flipped Meryl Davis, 23, over his shoulder and skated backwards on one leg as she faced the opposite direction and balanced on h...[Read on] |
Women's Lib – Afghan Style
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Sara Davidson discovers that a women’s movement can make a difference in AfghanistanA Friend Stopped By | Today 3:00 am
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Editor’s Note: Sara Davidson, author of the bestselling books Loose Change
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