Originally posted at the Women's Media Center
On a humid morning in early June, more than 140 advocates representing some 100 organizations across New York State gathered in Albany to lobby for a recently introduced bill, the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act. The bill seeks potential sentencing relief...
Posted November 28, 2010 | 11/28/10 08:29 AM ET
Originally published at the Women's Media Center
One afternoon in late October, filmmakers Martha Shane and Lana Wilson sat at Shane's kitchen table, creating dozens of homemade buttons that read "Trust Women," the working title of their documentary. The film tells the story of two doctors who perform...
Posted October 15, 2010 | 10/15/10 11:39 AM ET
Originally posted at Women's Media Center.
Tavi Gevinson started high school this fall. She also runs a fashion blog, Style Rookie, that gets a million and a half hits a month. I ask her what it's like, as a semi-professional fashion critic, to walk the halls...
Posted April 27, 2010 | 04/27/10 03:27 PM ET
An article published recently in Time magazine commemorates the 50th anniversary of the FDA's approval of the Pill for contraceptive use. But the fact that we celebrate the 50th anniversary of approval, rather than invention, kind of says it all. The Pill has been under ideological fire since...
Posted June 21, 2011 | 06/21/11 06:55 PM ET