Molly Shalgos
Top 5 Feminist TV Shows of 2012
Posted on 07/2/2012
Now that the 2011-2012 TV season has wrapped, it’s time to revisit the returning top five feminist TV shows and see who still makes the grade! Who got bumped up and who got booted altogether?
Read On...Juliana Tyson’s Story-Driven Campaign For A Woman’s Right To Choose
Posted on 05/30/2012
In a time when a woman’s right to contraception and reproductive healthcare has come under increasingly intense fire, Juliana Tyson is speaking out. Her mission: to help eradicate the stigma surrounding abortion with her storytelling project ProMYLife.
Read On...The Part of Domestic Violence That Nobody Talks About
Posted on 02/29/2012
Wouldn’t we all like to pretend we weren’t frighteningly wrong about somebody we loved? Wouldn’t we all like to take the worst moments of our lives and find a way to make them disappear? That’s how the cycle of abuse works.You don’t just want to move past this gut-wrenching, awful thing that happened; you desperately want to forget that it happened at all. You want to go back to a time when your world wasn’t ripped apart at the foundation, when you understood your life and your place in it.
Read On...The Feminine Canvas art show and panel highlights with Jessica LeRoy
Posted on 12/5/2011
As the feminist movement has expanded to embrace rights for gay and transgender individuals, the definition of the word “woman” itself is constantly growing and changing. Femininity, the panelists debated, is something that can be created and cultivated, not something that’s assigned along with the bodies that we’re born into.
Read On...Top 5 Feminist TV Shows for Fall 2011
Posted on 09/21/2011
In my mind, a gun-toting lady detective isn’t enough to get a show stamped with the Feminist Approval seal. I want to see her have a support network of other strong women. I want to see those women have their own needs, desires, and perspectives on life.
Read On...2011 Summer Blockbuster Movies and The Bechdel Test: And my favorite Womance is…
Posted on 08/25/2011
Bridesmaids, a hilarious “Womance” passed The Bechdel Test. Thor, BARELY passed it. How many others passed or FAILED? Find out now!
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