"queer-issues" Articles & Blogs:
Derrek Lutz wears dress to prom, wins prom king
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This story is a bit old, but too good not to share. Amidst all of the queer and gender non-conforming panic around prom season (remember Constance McMillen?), Derrek Lutz's story was buried.
Derrek is a high school student in New Jersey who self-ident...[Read on] |
Whip It: A great female empowerment story
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Whip It is not deep. It's not complex. It's not going to revolutionize filmmaking. Whip It is just a great female empowerment story with a simple but strong message that's also a lot of fun. And at a time when a lot of mainstream movies targeted at young ...[Read on] |
California marriage equality groups risk rights for petty rivalry
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A rivalry between California's two largest marriage equality organizations to publicly define the timeline of repealing Proposition 8 has become a bitter spat that threatens to cripple the effort.
On August 12, Equality California (EQCA) announced their ...[Read on] |
Cheerleading one's way to compliance
| A short but somewhat informative article about the issues surrounding competitive cheerleading and its potential to resolve some schools' Title IX issues around opportunities. Appropriate given the recent attempt by Quinnipiac to earn compliance by cuttin...[Read on] |
Equal Opportunities for Transgender Student-Athletes
| On October 25-26 in Indianapolis, The Women’s Sports Foundation initiative, It Takes A Team will be partnering with the Sports Project of the National Center for Lesbian Rights to host a national think tank entitled, “Equal Opportunities for Transgend...[Read on] |
Next Week’s Supreme Court Hearings: Issues Important to Women
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by Thao Nguyen, Outreach Manager, National Women's Law Center
Next week, as all eyes turn to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, our country will engage in a conversation about the legal issues that are m...[Read on] |
Obama Establishing White House Women's Council
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Women’s groups have been calling for women’s issues to get top billing in the Obama White House. Have they gotten their wish?Women's Rights | Today 11:45 am
Women will soon have a larger voice in the White House.
President Obama plans on ...[Read on] |
BlogHer'10 - Women in Sports Panel
| Re-capping BLOGHER '10
Driving into New York City this weekend for the BlogHer event was definately something I was looking forward to participating in. I honestly didnt know exactly what to expect, but I felt as though bringing a professional athe...[Read on] |
Thank You Shonda Rhimes
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I’ve been a little hard on Shonda Rhimes this season for some of the decisions she has made on Grey’s Anatomy, most notably the issues surrounding the departure of Brooke Smith. But as the show celebrates its 100th episode tonight I want to say a bi...[Read on] |
Virginia Madsen Getting Into Olympic Fight
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I still have major issues with Madsen for shilling Botox, but her Title IX Productions which she formed last year is taking on a good fight - the right for women ski jumpers to compete in the Olympic games.
Film follows 15 athletes and their fight agains...[Read on] |
National Taskforce to Promote Positive Images of Girls and Women Created
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I got this info from folks at the Girl Scouts which looks like it was instrumental in creating this bi-partisan taskforce to look at issues in media that effect girls.
US Reps Tammy Baldwin and Shelly Moore Capito introduced legislation that would:
supp...[Read on] |
Army Wives deals with girls and body image issues
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I’ve always been a fan of Army Wives. I know, it’s a bit sappy. But I like it. One reason why is because on ocassion they handle an issue really well.
That happened this past Sunday with a subplot about a young girl and body issues. The overv...[Read on] |
Quick Hit: Grading the White House on Women's Issues
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Our girl Samhita is quoted in this recent Forbes piece about the White House and Women's Issues.
Samhita Mukhopadhyay, 32, executive editor of feministing.com, believes female support is slipping. "Using reproductive rights as a bargaining chip was a bi...[Read on] |
The End of An Era – It Takes A Team, Rest in Peace
| It is with sadness that I am passing on the news that the Women’s Sports Foundation has eliminated its initiative, It Takes A Team, effective at the end of January when my contract as director of ITAT expires. I’ve directed It Takes A Team for five ye...[Read on] |
Girl-Powered Chicago Film Festival
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</object> The 45th Annual Chicago International Film Festival kicks off today, and this year, organize...[Read on] |
Casi Divas- Interview with Director Issa Lopez
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Casi Divas tells the story of four very different women vying in a contest to become the next big telenovela star. It is a story infused with dreams of changing your life and desires for celebrity and success but if you think it is all gloss you will mi...[Read on] |
Hollywood Women Speak Out
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Three Hollywood women -- Glenn Close, Nicole Kidman and Heather Graham -- got into the political action this week each on a different issue.
Nicole Kidman went to Capitol Hill to talk about violence against women. No matter what she has or hasn’t don...[Read on] |
Zero Progress Made on Gender Disparity in Films Targeted at Kids
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Some bad news from the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.
They released a new study: Gender Disparity On Screen and Behind the Camera in Family Films, done by Stacy L. Smith, PhD and Marc Choueiti, at the USC Annenberg School for Communication...[Read on] |
Interview with Wendy Jo Carlton – Director of Hannah Free
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Hannah Free, the new film starring Sharon Gless, written by Claudia Allen (adapted from her play) and directed by Wendy Jo Carlton will premiere on Sunday, June 28 as the closing night film for the Frameline LGBT Film Festival in San Francisco.
The film ...[Read on] |
Social networking is getting socailly conscious!
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According to a new game on Facebook, American 2049, social networking can be socially conscious! The new game is centered on such topics as forced sex work and prostitution, racial profiling, segregation, abortion issues, LGBTQ injustic...[Read on] |
Clinton Global Initiative: Investing in Girls and Women
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President Clinton opened the second day of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting by reciting damning statistics about women's economic marginalization, including that only 30% of the world's workforce is made up of women. Women do 66% of worl...[Read on] |
On the Continuum: Women’s Sports
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I went to a lunch earlier this week where Donna Orender, the President of the WNBA was the speaker. It was a small group of women from a diversity of professions. She talked about her life and how she has gotten to where she is now.
A little backgrou...[Read on] |
Why it's time to get beyond patriarchy
| This post is inspired by the 38th anniversary of Title IX which occurred last week. Actually it's "inspired" by this column by a sportswriter, blogger, and basketball fan. Wendy Parker believes it's time to get beyond Title IX. Me, too. But not in the way...[Read on] |
What if Women Ran the Academy?
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A colleague from the Hollywood Reporter and I were speaking on a wide range of issues yesterday and he asked me to put this question forward to you all.
Would the Academy Awards be different if women were in charge?
Would we have more female directi...[Read on] |
Not Oprah's Book Club: Along for the Ride
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Talking about this book today. Transcript after the jump!
<p>Hi everybody! I'm Miriam and I'm doing this week's Not Oprah's Book Club. I'm standing in for Courtney because I wanted to talk...[Read on] |
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