Love Your Body
October 15th is Love Your Body Day. One day where NOW wants us all to concentrate on loving our body– not because of what it looks like but because of […]
See the Charlotte Premiere of Emmy-winning Made in LA
Special Movie Premiere with the producers Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar Marriott Charlotte Executive Park Hotel Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 5:30pm Sponsored by the Latin American Coalition and Community […]
anthology seeks writing by women of color about war/violence
I know manhy of you are writers and so I wanted to share this submission opportunity with you. The ¡Ya Basta! Collective Call for Submissions: Anthology on Gender, War and […]
A Body Warrior to Meet: Bonnie and The Shape of a Mother
A few months ago, I discovered a very cool web-site: The Shape of a Mother. The creator of that web-site, Bonnie, is today’s body warrior. With The Shape of a […]
Hot Women for a Cool Planet
So, my former boss and continued life mentor and dear, dear friend, Ruth, is one of the coolest and most awe-inspiring women I know. A few years ago, she sold […]
Celebrating girlfriends
Who knew that August 1st was National Girlfriend’s Day? Seems like a great time to offer congratulations to Debba Haupert on Girlfriendology, an online community she created for women based […]
Girls on the Run champions girls
In Warren, a crowd of girls ages 8-13 runs a 5-kilometer course with race bibs proudly pinned to their lavender shirts. Every bib has the same number: 1. In Dundee, […]
America the Beautiful, the documentary
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8i1kEje950] I just came across a write-up on a new documentary, America the Beautiful, and it looks incredible. When Darryl Roberts, a former entertainment reporter in Chicago, approached 200 women on the […]
Circle de Luz, an antidote to depression
This opening sentence to a new report grabbed my attention this weekend- Adolescent girls who had a serious school failure by the 12th grade — being expelled, suspended or dropping […]
