Guest blog post: Soraya Chemaly is a feminist starist and media critic. She is also an insightful and thought-provoking blogger whom I greatly respect and admire. I highly recommend following her on Twitter.
This excellent piece was originally published on The Huffington Post.
We live in world where women, commodified, are celebrated for dressing "like sluts" to sell things.
Tags activism community connection family feminism goals success
2012-03-14
Posted in AWR Guest Blogs
Tags community connection feminism goals happiness health inspiration love
2012-03-12
Posted in Points to Ponder
Phyllis Rodriguez and Aicha el-Wafi have a powerful friendship born of unthinkable loss.
Rodriguez' son was killed in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001; el-Wafi's son Zacarias Moussaoui was convicted of a role in those attacks and is serving a life sentence.
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2012-03-11
Posted in TED Talks (Individual)
"If I should have a daughter, instead of Mom, she's gonna call me Point B ... " began spoken word poet Sarah Kay, in a talk that inspired two standing ovations at TED2011.
She tells the story of her metamorphosis -- from a wide-eyed teenager soaking in verse at New York's Bowery Poetry Club to a teacher connecting kids with the power of self-expression...
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2012-03-08
Posted in TED Talks (Individual)
Guest blog post: Soraya Chemaly is a feminist starist and media critic. She is also an insightful and thought-provoking blogger whom I greatly respect and admire. I highly recommend following her on Twitter. This excellent piece was originally published on The Huffington Post.
Does anyone remember when Annie Lennox created a scandal by wearing a men's suit, spurring a debate about whether or not she was gay?
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2012-03-07
Posted in AWR Guest Blogs