June 9, 2010 – Supermodel Christy Turlington Burns went into the hospital in 2003, expecting to simply deliver her first child, Grace. Instead, she found herself hemorrhaging on the delivery table. More »
Rashida Jones Tackles The Girl-Comics Conundrum
June 4, 2010 – Can Rashida Jones revive the comics industry? Her debut series, Frenemy of the State, promises action, adventure, and Perez Hilton parodies - but will that be enough to hook female readers into the series? As Jones explained last year, Frenemy started with an intriguing premise: Back when Paris... More »
M.I.A Takes On Google, Gaga, and Lynn Hirschberg
May 27, 2010 – Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam — better known as M.I.A. — is both rebel and scholar, educator and trickster, masterfully courting controversy. More »
Retro Styles And Gender Play: Beyoncé’s ‘Why Don’t You Love Me’
May 14, 2010 – Beyoncé's new video for "Why Don't You Love Me" debuted last week, with a nod to 1950s homemaker style — and interesting commentary on ideas of womanhood, past and present. Over at Feministing, Ann cast an appraising eye over Beyoncé and Sade's retro styling in recent videos. More »
iPad Therefore I Am: Women, Gadgets & Well-Being
May 12, 2010 – On Sunday, Barack Obama railed against "iPods, iPads, Xboxes, and PlayStations" which make information "a distraction" but a new study finds a link between happiness and access to technology, particularly in developing nations. More »
Tits Or GTFO: The Sexualization Of Women In Gaming Spaces
March 26, 2010 – Paying $8.25 to talk to a live (perhaps semi-nude) girl over the internet seems like a porn site pop-up ad, but it's actually the business plan for GameCrush - a company aiming to link male gamers and willing PlayDates. Earlier this week, Kotaku explained the basic premise of the... More »
Black Parents Waging War Against The Achievement Gap
March 19, 2010 – What's to blame for the achievement gap between black and white schoolchildren? While an entry in the Guardian's Comment is Free blames black women for "feminising" boys, More »
Celebrity Fat Club: Kirstie, Carnie, Kelly & America’s Obsession With Weight
March 1, 2010 – In today's Huffington Post, Laura Beck issues a "Wake Up Call to Kirstie Alley" after watching previews for Alley's new A&E show Kirstie Alley's Big Life. More »
South Korean Women "Peer Pressured" Into Passing On Maternity Leave
March 1, 2010 – What would force someone to spend $8,600 taking out ads in major newspapers proclaiming "I Am A Bad Woman?" For Hwang Myoung-eun, the full page polemic the only way to vent her frustration as a working mother. The Washington Post sets the tone for discussing the situation facing working women in More »
Sex Play: Self Magazine Goes Swinging
March 1, 2010 – Nestled in the pages of the March issue of Self magazine, right after a feature on jazzing up chicken and veggie dishes, is a piece called "Meet the Swingers." And no, Self editors aren't talking about dancers. Hallie Levine Sklar opens the curtains on the kinkier side of suburbia. More »
Shocker: Warcraft Not Just For Dudes
February 25, 2010 – "The new face of online gaming is feisty, foxy and female." The fact that women play World of Warcraft isn't exactly a secret. So why did the Times of London present the game as some new form of online dating? I love when women gamers receive mainstream media attention, as it underscores that we... More »
The Rules for Writing An Article On Interracial Dating & Black Women
February 25, 2010 – 1. White men are only consolation prizes. 2. Reference Something New. 3. Mention all her friends are doing it. 4. Ignore all other ethnicities/races. 5.
A Defense Of Sexist iPhone Apps
February 25, 2010 – In the wake of a controversial decision to pull sexually themed applications from the iTunes store, Apple is toying with adding a new "explicit" category to its current offerings. More »
NCAA Pulls Focus On The Family Banner Ad
February 25, 2010 – Focus on the Family's advertisement on the National Collegiate Athletic Association's website was removed as part of an ongoing debate about organizations accepting ads from the anti-gay, anti-choice Christian organization.
Gina Torres: Superheroes Are Curvy, "Skinny Bitches" Need Not Apply
February 24, 2010 – I fucking love Gina Torres, so I was excited to hear that she is the voice of Superwoman in the new film Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths. I was not thrilled with her comments on women in comics. Aww, Gina why? More »
Nicki Minaj And The Issue Of Female MCs
February 24, 2010 – Rapper Nicki Minaj catapulted to popularity in a matter of months, going from virtual unknown to appearing on tracks alongside Mariah Carey and Ludacris. More »
How Do We End The Wage Gap? Demand Transparent Salaries
February 24, 2010 – Today at Forbes Woman, Mary Ellen Egan questions the cause for the persistent wage gap between men and women. But where are the solutions? Egan, a staff writer at Forbes, outlines the issues she has seen through the course of her own career: More »
Japanese Olympic Officials Declare War On "Cool" Athletes
February 23, 2010 – Japanese synchronized swimmers will be banned from the national team if they show up with dyed hair, elaborate nail art, or piercings. The team has been accused of "looking more like rock stars than swimmers.
Our Avatars, Our Projected Selves
February 23, 2010 – Does a "sexualized" avatar invite disrespectful behavior online? While conducting an experiment to measure human empathy toward human actors compared with digital representations, researchers discovered a strange quirk: More »
