Video: Isabel Allende — Tales of Passion
With charm, humor and passion, Isabel Allende delivers a series of stories about women with passionate hearts who survive difficult lives.
Abby Zimet: Thank you, Elizabeth
A respectful, sorrowful, grateful farewell to Elizabeth Warren, the smartest, fiercest candidate in the race and one who deserved better from our still deeply sexist culture.
Connie Post: Iron Will
I still see her, standing there
fastening a floral apron
tripping on the cord of her own life
Michael Simms: Re-reading Christina Rossetti’s ‘In an Artist’s Studio’
The value of Rossetti’s poem lies in both the expert use of the Petrarchan sonnet, a particularly challenging form to master in English, and in the poet’s complex stance on the role of art in creating and re-enforcing images of women.
Vanessa K. Bohns: Weinstein jurors must differentiate between consent and compliance – which research shows isn’t easy
Did the women accusing Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault consent to his sexual advances of their own free will, or were they coerced?
Video: I Quit The Black Eyed Peas. Then They Became Famous.
Kim Hill was a rising singer. She met a young rapper named will.i.am. As their group became famous, she had to make a decision about what kind of performer she wanted to be and how she wanted to be perceived as a woman among men.
Kristin Henderson: A Feminist Alternative to Trump’s Chest Beating on Iran
If there’s ever to be genuine and just peace between the two nations, diplomacy must be the priority, and Iranian civil society must be acknowledged and respected.
Akashinga “The Brave Ones”: Nature Protected by Women
A growing body of evidence suggests that empowering women is the single biggest force for positive change in the world today.
Diane K. Martin: Love Before Breakfast
He would give her something to cry about.
If she knew what was good for her,
she would do something with her hair.
Video: Nellie Bly Makes The News
An animated documentary about the legendary journalist who changed the game for women in reporting before women even had the right to vote.
Video: Strength
Strength is a film about female physical and emotional strength from the point of view of a weightlifter and narrated by Adele Hampton reciting her poem ‘Lessons in Olympic Weightlifting’.
Roberta Hatcher: The Knitting Activist
Over under the country unraveling,
the old anxiety returning,
she sits and knits pink hats
for a new generation of women marching.
Molly Fisk: That Kind of Woman
We try them on as subjects, our mythical forebears,
wondering who we are: Penelope. Persephone. Eve.
Eurydice. Sleeping Beauty, Cassandra, Ophelia, Cinderella.
Barbie.
Patricia A. Nugent: Abort. Now.
Sharia law: when laws are created or interpreted based on religion.
