Because why should young women have all that objectification fun!

Attention women over 35! Did you think that your days of desperately trying to fit in with unrealistic beauty standards were over? Guess again! The new TV show “She’s Got the Look” gives women of all ages the chance to feel insecure and unworthy!

When will the madness stop?

Attention women over 35! Did you think that your days of desperately trying to fit in with unrealistic beauty standards were over? Guess again! The new TV show “She’s Got the Look” gives ...

Quick Hit: Boston targets harassers on subway


Big ups to MBTA!
Boston transit officials have launched a campaign against sexual harassment on the subway. While the “grope patrol” (as they like to call themselves) makes me giggle a little, the campaign has already begun to make a difference in encouraging women to come forward when they’re harassed on the train:

“The number of reported groping incidents — from the relatively minor to the really lewd — has doubled. Some women have even preserved clothing, which police officers need for evidence, while others are sending in pictures of guys they snap on their cell phones.”

They must have gotten that idea from the Hollaback ladies of Boston!
Via NPR.


Big ups to MBTA!
Boston transit officials have launched a campaign against sexual harassment on the subway. While the “grope patrol” (as they like to call themselves) makes me giggle a little, the campaign has ...

Limits and ambitions

A new report says we don’t have more women in politics because they just aren’t that interested:

Extensive research shows that when women run for office, they perform just as well as men. Yet women remain severely under-represented in our political institutions. In this report, we argue that the fundamental reason for women’s under-representation is that they do not run for office. There is a substantial gender gap in political ambition; men tend to have it, and women don’t.

“Ambition” is a bit of a misleading way to put it. Here’s how the study’s authors break it down:

We link this persistent gender gap in political ambition to several factors. Women are less likely than men to be willing to endure the ...

A new report says we don’t have more women in politics because they just aren’t that interested:

Extensive research shows that when women run for office, they perform just as well as men. Yet women remain severely ...

The Pill: Help Write its History

Check out this author’s query from Elaine Tyler May, amazing feminist historian and big fan of feministing. (She’s the one who wrote feminist classic Homeward Bound, that I reviewed alongside Faludi last month.) Please, please take some time and respond!
The Pill is often considered one of the most important innovations of the twentieth century. As I investigate this claim for a new book—set for release on the 50th anniversary of the Pill’s FDA approval (Basic Books, 2010)—I’m looking to include the voices and stories of real people. I hope yours will be one of them. I’m eager to hear from men as well as women, of all ages and backgrounds.

Have you or any of your partners taken ...

Check out this author’s query from Elaine Tyler May, amazing feminist historian and big fan of feministing. (She’s the one who wrote feminist classic Homeward Bound, that I reviewed alongside Faludi last month.) Please, please ...

Thank You Thursdays: Female Playwrights


I saw Top Girls last night with the ladies on my intergenerational feminist panel and it got me thinking so much about women’s lives, childbirth, sacrifice, our feminist legacy etc. It started out with a crazy theater version of Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party, where all these women through out history had dinner together and told the stories of their lives (while sometimes interrupting, crying, screaming, and drinking a lot of wine). While it definitely confused me (she’s all post-structuralist and Brechtian in this one), it also made me want to give a big ol’ shout out to Caryl Churchill, the playwright, and other women playwrights over the years who have helped us look at ...


I saw Top Girls last night with the ladies on my intergenerational feminist panel and it got me thinking so much about women’s lives, childbirth, sacrifice, our feminist legacy etc. It started out with ...

Get Your Media Training On

I’ve posted a bit on feministing before about my experience as part of the inaugural class of the Progressive Women’s Voices Project over at the Women’s Media Center. In short, it was awesome–the least paralyzing media training I’ve ever had, the most intergenerational, diverse, talented staff I’ve ever encountered at a feminist nonprofit, and some seriously helpful ongoing help for a freelancer like little ol’ me. Anyhow, they’re accepting applications for their third class. Check it out and definitely drop them an application if you think it sounds up your alley. Info below:
Through our Progressive Women’s Voices program, the WMC works to amplify the voice of progressive women in the media, while building a new class of experts ...
I’ve posted a bit on feministing before about my experience as part of the inaugural class of the Progressive Women’s Voices Project over at the Women’s Media Center. In short, it was awesome–the least paralyzing media ...

Quick Hit: Body as Art

The International Museum of Women continues to do amazing work online. This month the exhibit is Women, Power, and Politics and there is no shortage of inspiring art to check out. I’m especially interested in the Body as Art section, where artists from around the globe consider ways that our forms can be our medium of expression.

The International Museum of Women continues to do amazing work online. This month the exhibit is Women, Power, and Politics and there is no shortage of inspiring art to check out. I’m especially interested in the ...

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