"women-kick-ass" Articles & Blogs:
Salt-N-Pepa Kick Off Legends of Hip-Hop Tour
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Grammy Award Winning and legendary hip-hop icons Salt-N-Pepa are kicking off a 20-city Legends of Hip-Hop Tour! As the first ever female rap crew, Salt-N-Pepa, broke barriers and opened doors wide open that were once closed to women in hip-hop. They gave ...[Read on] |
Women at the Toronto Film Festival
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Toronto is one of the places where many films with year end award ambitions debut in North America. It is always one of the most interesting festivals of the year and helps kick off the awards season. Festival runs from September 10-19.
Women directed ...[Read on] |
Cavalli dresses Shakira for the World Cup
| Team jerseys will be the most popular fashion choice in South Africa over the next few weeks. Unless you're Shakira. During her opening ceremony performance at the FIFA World Cup on June 10th, the Latin beauty will be wearing an exclusive look from high-e...[Read on] |
Have cable’s women screwed the networks?
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Here’s a thought. Do you think that the networks are going to be able to keep up with cable in regards to women led shows? Think about it. The women who lead the cable shows like Damages, In Plain Sight, The Closer, Weeds, Nurse Jackie and Saving ...[Read on] |
The Women of Avatar
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I totally LOVED Avatar. It was a great forward thinking film with tons of passion and made me excited to be in a movie theatre. I can’t wait to see it again (my friend and I tried several times last weekend but were sold out.) Next time I am seein...[Read on] |
Rosie O: Comic Book Female Force
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Blue Water’s comic series “Female Force” is featuring the comic book biography of Rosie O’Donnell and all her kick ass endeavors as a comedian, talk show host, actress, and activist. Blue Water launched this series in 2009, in prai...[Read on] |
Kickboxing – Fun and Fitness Combined
| By Alyssa Dietris
If you are looking for a power packed workout that works on cardio and toning at the same time, kickboxing may be for you. A study released by the ACE, American Council on Exercise, stated that kickboxing can burn anywhere from 350 to ...[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] |
Musical Mondays: Head Baker
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So what’s “Musical Monday”? Just pick the book you’re currently reading (or just finished), then think of a song or album that best matches the book. Even hitting shuffle on your musical player will do the trick. I don’t know about you, but song...[Read on] |
Theatre women create awards in honor of Lillian Hellman
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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 ...[Read on] |
KICK IT UP! launches at FIFA World Cup
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Soccer (or football as it’s known around the globe) is the world’s most popular sport, and Global Girl Media is using the largest international soccer event to help young women find their voices. The non-profit org’s pilot project KICK IT UP! has ...[Read on] |
SNL Returns with Amy Poehler and Katy Perry; But Will There Be Gummi Bears Involved?
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Saturday Night Live is one of those cultural phenomena that refuse to disappear. We will all be dead and gone before SNL goes off air. This fall marks the show’s 36th running year and the entire cast (minus Will Forte) will be returning on September...[Read on] |
Iranian President, clerics disagree over women’s sports
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Iranian athletes had fine performances in China’s southern city of Guangzhou where the 16th edition of the Asian Games, Asiad, recently wrapped.
But a senior Muslim cleric has denounced the participation of Iranian women in the Asian Games, calling i...[Read on] |
Elizabeth Lambert: Where is the Outrage?
| I’ve watched this video over and over again now, and I still can’t understand why, in any of these egregiously unsporting incidents, none of the women mistreated by Elizabeth Lambert turned around to treat this woman to an elbow in her jaw.
The uglin...[Read on] |
"I am 80 years old, but I'm ready to fight" Nawaal El-Saadawi tells Newsweek
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Nawal El-Sadaawi, 80 year old Egyptian feminist, physician, former political prisoner, prolific writer, and all around kick-ass lady talks to Newsweek about what's going on in Egypt. In this video, she describes how the gove...[Read on] |
Mother and Child
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Just in time for Mother’s Day, Mother and Child peels back the layers of three very different women all linked together through adoption. Karen (Annette Bening) gave away her daughter when she was fourteen and she has never fully been able to recover ...[Read on] |
How Kick-Ass Would A Harriet Tubman Barbie Be?
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Multi-media artist, Pierre Bennu, has released the second piece in a three-series installment of commercials for a hypothetical "Black Moses Barbie" toy. The commercials are an extremely clever and funny tribute to the legacy of Harriet Tubman and o...[Read on] |
FREE DOWNLOAD: Women & the Winter Olympics Reference Guide
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The Winter Games kick off in Vancouver Friday, February 12th and we’re stoked to see our fave female athletes compete in events like skiing, snowboarding, figure skating, luge, bobsled and more.
For all the deets on who’s competing when, along with...[Read on] |
Kick in Iran: Female sports documentary premieres at Sundance
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The Sundance Film Festival, beginning today in Park City, Utah, is the 26th annual showcase of independent film. While distributors are on the lookout for breakouts like “Paranormal Activity” and “Little Miss Sunshine”, we’ve got our eye...[Read on] |
Do Kick-Ass Action Heroines Move Gender Sterotypes Forward or Just Perpetuate The Current Ones?
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Last week I read a report in an Australian paper and from Yahoo in India about some important research done here in the US on female action characters in films. I was kind of surprised not to see the research picked up wider so I went directly to the re...[Read on] |
Argentinian soccer, not just for boys...
| I thought everyone in Argentina was practically born dribbling a soccer ball between their feet. Silly me, what I meant to say was that everyone who is a boy is weaned on soccer. Girls, it turns out, are not necessarily welcome in the sport in that soccer...[Read on] |
Feminist Police Captain Calls the Shots in French Police Drama
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In its third season, French police drama Engrenages, known as Spiral to English-speaking viewers, is another gritty police drama teeming with all the usual installations: murder, drugs, corruption, sex, violence, but with one kick-ass leading female chara...[Read on] |
An athlete who refuses to act her age
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Just because you grow up doesn’t mean you have to give up sports. Next weekend the 2009 World Masters Games kick off in Sydney (for those that don’t know, that’s a comp for athletes 40 years of age and older.)
One athlete preparing for the Ga...[Read on] |
An interview with Ada Lovelace
| This morning, I went to the Science Museum to talk to Ada Lovelace herself about Charles Babbage, his computing machines, and her vision and brilliance.
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New Spider Girl kicks butt
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A new Spider-Girl hits stores next week. And apparently she will be a multi-dimensional female superhero, whose power is about more than her cupsize.
Anya “Arañita” Sofia Corazon already existed in the Marvel universe, but is now officially reb...[Read on] |
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