"women-speak" Articles & Blogs:
Mammamia! Italian Women Speak Out Against Sexism
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The United States, as well as many other countries, was created under a patriarchal foundation that women are constantly struggling with, and Italy is no exception. In fact, Italian women have to exist under triple threats of sexism: the government...[Read on] |
NPR Shouts Out to All The Ladies
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I tend to hate the idea of one woman giving an interview where she winds up speaking on account of “all women.” We are all very different and of course can only speak from our own individual points of view.That being said, NPR is my hero. The ...[Read on] |
Sexism and ageism in the soap opera world
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I used to be a big fan of Days of our Lives. Big fan. Watched it on and off (mostly on) for about 15 years. A couple of years ago I went cold turkey. But soaps are in distress, Guiding Light was canceled and cost cutting is the mantra. Days of Our...[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] |
Two Ex-Girl Scouts Accuse the Organization of Promoting Abortions
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We’ve all heard it before: someone tries to inform young women about their options regarding an unwanted pregnancy, and they’re blamed for “promoting abortion” to young girls. But this time the attacks are coming from two Texan tee...[Read on] |
2009 was no Year of the Woman in Hollywood
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Just forget all the bullshit you and I are constantly fed (and I sometimes write) about how great things are for women in Hollywood. We did have a better year at the box office with a couple of female led films making it to the top 10, and we did get a ...[Read on] |
Cannes Can’t – Where are the Women Directors?
| So the Cannes lineup in finalized and the abysmal showing for female directors is now set in stone. The festival added two more films to the competition lineup and not surprisingly, both were by men. That’s now 18 films competing for the Palme D’O...[Read on] |
Two women ceatives speak out about Polanski situation
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Here are the women’s voices I promised. Please send me more:
This is director Sue Kramer’s comment that appeared on a NY Times article from Oct 1. It is reprinted here with her permission
I am a Hollywood screenwriter and director and must confe...[Read on] |
Michelle Obama inaugurates new White House farmers market
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And I was there!
As the local food nerd that I am, I had to be there to hear Michelle Obama speak at the opening of the new White House Farmer's Market in DC.
One of the local dairy farmer's spo...[Read on] |
Afghan's 'Bravest Woman' Calls on U.S. to Leave
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(WOMENSENEWS)--Surrounded by powerful men twice her age, Malalai Joya, then 27 and the youngest person elected to the Afghan parliament, raised her hand to speak. She denounced the warlords and drug traffickers in the government and stood up in favor of w...[Read on] |
Yentl: A Movie That Changed the World
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If you’ve ever heard me speak or know me you know that Yentl is the movie that changed my world. Seeing a woman produce, star, sing, co-write and direct when I was a teenager knocked my socks off. No woman had done what Barbra Streisand did in 1983. ...[Read on] |
Roman Polanski: The silence is deafening
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It seems that I am now officially obsessed with the Roman Polanski insanity. As I’ve gone further down this rabbit hole I find my compatriots on the internet to be with me in force but others who I expected to hear from are just silent.
The silence i...[Read on] |
So you think you want to be a Rodeo Cowgirl
| Another chapter in the "So you think you want to be a Rodeo Cowgirl" saga...
Last night we were at Gladewater, TX, right in the heart of the severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings. It was hot, and the clouds starting coming in from the north and...[Read on] |
Kim Longinotto Retrospective at MOMA May 7-23
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There are many awesome female documentarians but Kim Longinotto is at the top of the field. A retrospective of her 30 year body of work will featured at the Museum of Modern Art this month in NYC. Longinotto is known for documenting untold stories of ...[Read on] |
In Afghanistan, the best way for women to help women is by training men
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Women for Women International provides education and aid for women in war-torn areas. Currently, they operate in eight countries -- Sudan, Nigeria, Congo, Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan -- teaching women how to read and become more self-suff...[Read on] |
The Lilly Awards — Kristin Chenoweth’s Statement
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On Monday night a packed house gathered at Playwrights Horizons people in NYC to celebrate women working in theatre. A bunch of people including playwrights Theresa Rebeck and Marsha Norman who call themselves the “Committee for the Recognition of Out...[Read on] |
Clinton Global Initiative: Hillary Clinton on Food Security
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I have had the opportunity to see a lot of really powerful speakers at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting. Talk about internalized patriarchy: I was most excited to see Presidents Obama and Clinton speak, and though I was excited to see Se...[Read on] |
Finally, A Woman Included in the Hollywood Reporter Roundtable
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A couple of weeks ago The Hollywood Reporter held two roundtable conversations that forgot to include any women. Whoops. One was with cinematographers and the other was with writers.
The good news is that in their most recent roundtable with director...[Read on] |
Hell Hath No Fury Like Taylor Swift (Sorta) Scorned
| Taylor Swift is approaching promotion of her third album, Speak Now, with what can only be described as Nixonian paranoia—her label seems to fear that nothing short of a manufactured shitstorm of controversy will save it from tanking. Ahead of the disc...[Read on] |
Women & Wine Hosts Press/Bloggers Event to Preview the Winners of the LA International Wine, Spirits & Olive Oil Competition
| As the CEO of Women & Wine, http://womenwine.com, I wear a lot of different hats. So it was a great privilege on Thursday, to help host a press and bloggers tasting event - a sneak peak so to speak - to showcase some of the winners prior to the announceme...[Read on] |
The Fempire — Women Supporting Women
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(l-r) Dana Fox, Diablo Cody, Liz Meriwether, Lorene Scafaria - photo by Amy Dickerson for NY Times
The NY Times in a Style section piece yesterday reported this bizarro notion that there are women screenwriters in Hollywood that support and root for each...[Read on] |
Sarah Palin and the Celebrity of Politics
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Joni Evans, Judith Martin, Liz Smith and Mary Wells talk about a new
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LIZ: Do you know there’s no celebrity news to speak of? That&...[Read on] |
Does Best Buy Own the Word “Geek”?
| Electronics giant Best Buy issued a cease-and-desist letter to a Web site, Newegg.com, that was encouraging users to “Geek On.” Best Buy offers the services of a team of uniformed tech savants, known as the Geek Squad, who will assist customers in set...[Read on] |
Guess the Sentences in Bristol Palin®’s Forthcoming Memoir
| Unemployed twentysomething dilettante Bristol Palin® has another bullet point to add to her résumé: “Book Writer!!” Politics Daily has unearthed from the recesses of Amazon evidence of an “Untitled Bristol Palin Memoir....[Read on] |
Women to Watch in the Olympics (While You Still Can): The US Hockey Team
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The ladies of the US’s women’s hockey team are a stunning group of women—who will be going for the gold this Thursday against Canada--peppered with Ivy League grads, awesome moms, and career women (including two women who have opened the...[Read on] |
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