Posts Tagged TEDWomen

Bringing feminist values to economics

Here’s the first TEDWomen video released, by Iceland’s feminist financial superhero, Halla Tomasdottir. The inside scoop is that Halla was super nervous about her talk, both because, well, it’s nerve wracking to know people from 100 different countries are watching you (in addition to the 700 in the audience), but also because English isn’t her first language. I was so thrilled when she strode up on that stage, super hot shoes to boot, and rocked it.

Hella spoke fairly early in the program and managed to plant the seed for an ongoing conversation that was threaded through out the two days. In sum, a lot of us spoke about the reality that the earth, our economic systems, our bodies, our hearts, ...

Here’s the first TEDWomen video released, by Iceland’s feminist financial superhero, Halla Tomasdottir. The inside scoop is that Halla was super nervous about her talk, both because, well, it’s nerve wracking to know people from 100 different ...

Tony Porter breaks out of the “man box”

I truly believe that one of the biggest ongoing and mostly neglected pieces of feminist work is convincing men that their liberation is tied up in ours. Tony Porter, co-founder of A Call to Men, was the first speaker to get a standing ovation for this incredibly vulnerable and moving talk about the toxicity and future of masculinity. Trigger warning: Tony testifies about a horrifying sexual assault that might be difficult for some people to hear about.

I truly believe that one of the biggest ongoing and mostly neglected pieces of feminist work is convincing men that their liberation is tied up in ours. Tony Porter, co-founder of A Call to Men, was ...

Bringing feminist values to economics

Here’s the first TEDWomen video released, by Iceland’s feminist financial superhero, Halla Tomasdottir. The inside scoop is that Halla was super nervous about her talk, both because, well, it’s nerve wracking to know people from 100 different countries are watching you (in addition to the 700 in the audience), but also because English isn’t her first language. I was so thrilled when she strode up on that stage, super hot shoes to boot, and rocked it.

Hella spoke fairly early in the program and managed to plant the seed for an ongoing conversation that was threaded through out the two days. In sum, a lot of us spoke about the reality that the earth, our economic systems, our bodies, our hearts, ...

Here’s the first TEDWomen video released, by Iceland’s feminist financial superhero, Halla Tomasdottir. The inside scoop is that Halla was super nervous about her talk, both because, well, it’s nerve wracking to know people from 100 different ...

Reflections on TEDWomen

It will take me a long time to truly digest everything I experienced at TEDWomen this past week. It was all things that TED claims to be—chock full of bright and spreadable ideas offered by dynamic and diverse speakers and an engaged audience of smart, humanitarian-minded, mostly very privileged women. The music, as pictured above with the Ahn Trio, was phenomenal.

On the most personal level, it was a massive honor to speak alongside such incredible human beings and heroes—Elizabeth Lesser, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Naomi Klein, just to name a few. I was honored to be able to talk about my own story and ideas, highlight the work of our collective at Feministing, and some of the ...

It will take me a long time to truly digest everything I experienced at TEDWomen this past week. It was all things that TED claims to be—chock full of bright and spreadable ideas offered by dynamic ...