If you can trust the internet to reliably do anything, you can trust it to tell you that some bullshit is inspiring when some bullshit generally is not. A quick survey of certain prominent websites’ use of the word proves very inauspicious: one offender, for example, labels the following as inspirational—body positive…
In today's "huh?" news, it seems that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles gang once included a lady turtle.
It's been nine years since Jennifer Garner starred in Elektra and ten years since Halle Berry starred in Catwoman, and while the comic book superheroes — from Spider-Man to Wolverine to Iron Man and Thor — are raking in cash at the box office, the ladies are relegated to supporting cast members. That's about to…
When Dorothy "Dot" Lewis, a former Women's Airforce Service Pilot in World War II, passed away this September, her son wanted to do something special to honor her and the other 1,073 WASPs. What better way to honor such an important but largely forgotten aspect of the US Military than with the US's most historic…
For a while, we saw a smattering of movies — Hanna, Hunger Games, Sucker Punch, Salt, Dragon Tattoo, Wanted — in which women were armed, dangerous forces to be reckoned with. But Natalie Portman points out that having a character like that doesn't mean your movie is a feminist work.
Malala Yousufzai, the 15-year-old girl who just a few days ago had a titanium plate put in her skull as a result of being shot by the Taliban back in October, has released her first video statement — which was recorded on January 22 — via a PR firm a mere couple of hours after Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital…
Odds are you haven't heard of Jean Jennings Bartik, who died recently at age 86.
Where is the movie about ninety-six year-old Gertrude Hadley Jeanette? Not only was she New York City's first female cab driver, she was also the first female licensed motorcyclist. And that was before a distinguished theater career, and as a black woman in profoundly racist times.
You probably heard that NASA announced a groundbreaking discovery that expands the definition of life as we know it. Did you know the lead scientist is a woman named Felisa Wolfe-Simon — and she's young? Prepare to feel inadequate.
Nicola Briggs, subway heroine, now says it's about "taking away the shame, from you, as a woman being violated - and bringing the shame back on the perpetrator." (A three-time offender, he'll be deported.) We've asked her to say more.
Public service announcement: I'll be live-tweeting a Radcliffe panel, "Feminism Then and Now" with Susan Faludi and Nell Irvin Painter, among others, at 10:30am, as well as a lunch with Gloria Steinem at 12:30. [Twitter, Radcliffe]
"My fourteen-year-old daughter said, 'Couldn't there be a book about two nice kids who do it and nobody has to die?" Judy Blume told me last night while discussing Forever. There was also a fabulous purple jacket involved.
There's a lot more to Pam Grier than stories of cocaine vaginas. As an interview with the Times today confirms, Grier's emerged from a life "more interesting and dangerous than some of the movies I've done" a strong, resilient woman.
"Because of [your books] I wanted to marry not a slave, but a free woman," one Cairo man told Nawal El Saadawi, 79. Read about the writer, psychiatrist, and outspoken critic of (and survivor of) female genital mutilation here. [Guardian]
Gabby Sidibe's as quotable as ever. "If fashion was porn, this dress would be the money shot," she says. Plus, she dishes on wanting to work with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler (second clip).
Yesterday's health care summit may have featured only four women, but one of them, Representative Louise Slaughter, managed to make a pretty big impression.
"As the girls who loved Anne Frank grew up, they became women who loved Miep Gies, and who hoped that they would do what she did, if ever they were asked to." [Washington Post]
"But violence against women determines much about who we are as a society...My goal is to keep fighting violence against women until it stops. Imagine what the world would be like if women could walk around without fear." More: [U.S.News]
…Said Sigourney Weaver in a discussion about action heroines. Star Trek's Zoe Saldana fumed: "We fight a room full of men over whether we should wear pants… They think I can do [action] in a shirt and Gucci boots." [EW]
