Nowadays, social media makes everyone feel like they have a big, booming voice to use for instigating change. Just spend a little time on Twitter or in the comments section of a newspaper article and you’ll read opinions and suggestions from everyone from issue experts to the tinfoil hat brigade. It’s a dynamic litany of [...]
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Feminists, Meet the Next Wave: Don’t Take Body Image Activism Lightly
It seems that someone is always talking about the supposed death of feminism. The kids don’t relate to the big, bad F-word anymore. Younger generations are self-absorbed and apathetic. Oh, the “Sex and the City,” the “Girls,” the blogging, the stilettos, the Spanx. No one cares about the real work of feminism anymore. We just [...]
Educational Winds of Change
The winds of change are blowing through the Louisiana educational system with the strength of a Category 5 hurricane. Governor Bobby Jindal longs to make a name for himself on the national stage, a name that was somewhat tarnished by an embarrassing rebuttal to one of Barack Obama’s first speeches made as President. So desperately [...]
International Women’s Day: The Lighter Side
March 8th is International Women’s Day. A day more celebrated or acknowledged in other parts of the world than in the US in general but it is catching on. Social media, democratized media, great technology are fueling the expansion of awareness days and campaigns. Like this one. The United Nations acknowledges International Women’s Day with [...]
Occupied
Since the beginning of the Occupy Movement I have struggled to come up with the correct words to explain my admittedly mixed feelings. As a progressive – a rather vocal one at that – there was a part of me who felt the need to throw myself into all of it: The rallying, the human [...]
The Supreme Court, Redistricting and Women
With so much going on in the world today — the series of never-ending GOP debates, wondering whether the Social Security payroll tax cut will stay in effect, and the looming winter holidays — it’s easy to overlook some other important things going on that will affect us all. One of those is the issue [...]
Broads of the Week — 12/4/11 Edition
As our heads swirl this week with the thoughts of the strange “I’m just a victim” speech given by Herman Cain as he withdrew from the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Michele Bachmann setting us straight on gay marriage (gay people can get married as long as they marry someone of the opposite sex) [...]
Broads of the Week — 11/19/11 Edition
There are so many women around the web writing about important issues every week. You’d never know from the general conversations surrounding the women often called “mom bloggers.” And I got laughed at a couple of times this week at a book event for Mothers of Intention: How Women and Social Media are Revolutionizing Politics [...]
Fighting Like a Mom Against the “Stop Online Piracy Act”
Motherhood forced me to educate myself on big issues across the board. From nutrition to politics, I deconstructed my assumptions and read everything I could. I needed to understand everything and make educated decisions on how I raise my children. I never planned on being a activist, it was by-product of simply taking time to [...]
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I Want My Mother Back
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Charles Ramsey and the Racial Language Barrier
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Brave’s Merida is Herself Again. But for How Long?
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Can “Maybe” Empower Our Children in Times of Fear?
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When Big Pharma “Strong” Arms Mothers, We All Lose
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President’s Woes Don’t Equal Watergate
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Angelina the Amazon
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6 Things You Need To Know Right Now: Scandals Abound!
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The IRS & the Tea Party: Nonprofits Need More Scrutiny, Not Less
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“Weigh-cism” in America
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Bernadine Spitzsnogel: What a terrible choice these women are forced to m...
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Holly: Great summary of in real life scandals....
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Gena: No. I will not stop being African-American, Black ...
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deb: thanks for your nice comment SJ. "laughing at ot...