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GIF of the Day: Andres Manniste - [caption id="attachment_83325" align="aligncenter" width="250"][image: development] "Human Development" (2016)[/caption] All of these GIFs are thumbnail im...
1 day ago
Bitch Blogs

BitchTapes - bitchtapes Evette Dionne There’s no such thing as a “summer body” or “beach body,” though pop culture perpetuates this myth time and time again. Telling wo...
1 day ago
fbomb

The Invisibility of Muslim Girls and Women Must End - [image: Art by @nerdybrownkid] Art by @nerdybrownkid This past week, a teenage girl identified as Nabra Hassanen was brutally murdered. She was attacked o...
1 day ago
Works by Women San Francisco

Meetup #44: How to Be a White Man - For WWSF's 40th Meetup we had our first opportunity to see the work of FaultLine theater, a 5 year old company with a mission to "amplify the voices of wom...
2 days ago
LA Female Playwrights Initiative

The FPI Files: Women’s Stories at EST/LA, One Act at a Time - Is it just us, or has Ensemble Studio Theatre/Los Angeles been getting their femme on, lately? Including last year’s hit production of member playwright Ka...
2 days ago
Epochalips

Lesbians Ponder the Mysterious Clitoris - I remember at one point actually BELIEVING the theory of Freud’s “vaginal orgasm”. And when I finally realized the ridiculousness of it, I had to chuckle. ...
3 days ago
Ann Tracy's Waiting for the Muse

Poetics of Dreaming - Dreaming seems to be the poetics of thinking to my mind. I'm creating an installation using objects, video and fabric here at Running with Scissors (RWS),...
5 days ago
Wellywood Woman

Kate Kaminski & Bluestocking - *Women's film activism now has real depth. And the networking that goes on gives it real strength. Women's film festivals are a vital part of all this (and...
1 week ago
THE HOT PINK PEN

LOST IN PARIS (2016) - A beautifully colorful and artistically whimsical film, Lost In Paris enchants the eyes, ears and hearts of its viewers –never allowing a second of scree...
1 week ago
WomenArts

Project ArmHer Challenges Stereotypes and Stigmatization - Guest Blog by Laura Stradiotto. In a mining community about four hours north of Toronto, a group of Canadian women with lived experience in sex work and th...
1 week ago
Words of Choice: Up the Creativity

Video: National Institute for Reproductive Health Promotes Forward Movement - A new video by the *National Institute for Reproductive Health* and its *Action Fund* lays out a future-directed approach to shaping a movement for reprod...
1 week ago
Blog This Rock

Ten Ways to Support Split This Rock - [image: Image of audience members holding hands at Split This Rock Poetry Festival] Split This Rock has been a people's movement since its founding in 200...
1 week ago
Guerrilla Girls On Tour!

OPED: The Broadway League, Casting Directors and the Tony Awards - Broadway is gearing up to celebrate the best of the season by handing out Tony Awards to directors, designers and performers. Many have argued that casting...
2 weeks ago
n.paradoxa's blog

Local/Global Dynamics in Feminism and Contemporary Art, conference - n.paradoxa is organising a conference 3 July, 2017, Middlesex University, London. Full Details here: ‘Local and Global Dynamics in Feminism and Contemporar...
4 weeks ago
beyondasiaphilia

Cinémania: 2017 Hong Kong International Film Festival part one - I’ve been in Hong Kong for more than a month now on the second leg of my Fulbright Fellowship for Love Boat: Taiwan and I’ve been taking advantage of as mu...
1 month ago
Works by Women

WBW Brief: May 9, 2017 - New Artistic Director: Lauded writer Katori Hall (pictured, The Mountaintop, Hurt Village) has been named the Artistic Director of the Hattiloo Theatre in ...
1 month ago
Kunstblog

Queer British Art 1861-1967 - The unwieldy title contains a wealth of meaning and significance--a major exhibit at Tate Britain with an LGBT subject? A rainbow flag (RIP Gilbert Baker) ...
2 months ago
Arlene Goldbard

#FollowTheMoney #SaveTheNEA - “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” ...
3 months ago
Grrrl Sounds

Grrrl Sounds moving! - Moving forward the Grrrl Sounds archives will be available on: http://grrrlsounds.blogspot.com/
6 months ago
The Feminist Guide to Hollywood

Music Monday: An all girl band in Afghanistan - *They sound like a mix of Devo and Chicks on Speed to me. I don't even know what they're called, but I want to buy the full album.* *Anyone know what the ...
9 months ago
SeeLight

Characterization Handout - Again, here's a handout I use in my fiction/prose narrative classes that I thought might be useful to others. Feel free to use these guidelines in your wor...
10 months ago
Women & Hollywood

Read Women and Hollywood Now on Medium - After five great years on Indiewire and the end of the blog network, Women and Hollywood has moved to a new home on Medium. You can read us here: https://b...
1 year ago
Still in Motion

Separation Anxiety: Babai - At its international premiere at this year’s Jubilee edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Visar Morina’s intense and immediate father/s...
1 year ago
Timeless Rhythms

Wow! New things are happening in 2015! - Hello world! Away from the online journal here at Timeless Rhythms Studio, I have been growing my life in different directions for some time now! For examp...
2 years ago
Bright New Day

uh huh: enduring affirmations from the Spill Webinar Participants - Last week’s Brilliance Remastered Webinar (the Spill Intensive) was miraculous. We investigated our long-held narratives, decisions we had outgrown, and ...
2 years ago
littleblackbook

The Shape of My Impact: A Virtual Conversation on Survival and the Academic Industrial Complex - [image: zp_audre-lorde-in-berlin_1984_photograph-c2a9-dagmar-schultz]“I love the word survival, it always sounds to me like a promise. It makes me wonder ...
2 years ago
Club Des Femmes

Ada & After: Women Do Science [Fiction] - Coming soon... in partnership with BFI Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder and Film London 20, 21, 22, 23 November 2014 ICA/Hackney Picturehouse/ Aubin Cinem...
2 years ago
The San Franista

Lighting the Path Intensives + Finding Calm Before SF Wakes - Sixteen months ago I was fortunate to get to take part in one of Ana Forrest’s advanced yoga teacher trainings in Colorado. I loved the experience of havin...
2 years ago
Vertical Hyphen

Every time I read target, I think people. - baited breath call it air strike it’s fingers deciding when it’s faith and limbs torn after a breath toll rising disaster it's personal the fumes call ...
2 years ago
Bay Area Actor

New Home for Counting Actors - As of this month's post, the monthly report from the Counting Actors project moves to the Works by Women San Francisco blog. March's post is linked below....
3 years ago
Steady Diet of Film

Review: Robocop (1987) - SPOILER WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS In a dystopic, but recognizable future Detroit, powerful corporations are primed to “bring back Detroit” wit...
3 years ago
MIRA'S LIST

UPDATE ON MIRA'S LIST AND UPCOMING EVENTS - Greetings long lost friends, I am still alive and kicking but not doing this blog anymore. I do, however, go around the country and speak about the things ...
3 years ago
A Rehearsal Room of One's Own

Let's...NOT talk about sex...? - So a friend of mine recently experienced some sexual harassment and had the courage to write about it publicly. I’ll give you a moment while you go and r...
4 years ago
In the Midst of Memory.

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5 years ago
BodyLogue

Hijab no longer will block elite weightlifter - *by Thomas Roberts.* After a hard-fought battle in the name of her faith, Muslim weightlifter Kulsoom Abdullah is now able to compete without violating her...
5 years ago
TheBrooklynSocialite

Laurie Anderson, PIFF-Blessed/Chosen-Grateful - In Joan Rivers new documentary, despite the over-arching theme of her heroic battle to maintain eroding celebrity, she talks a lot about being chosen. Yes,...
6 years ago
Transformative Media Justice

Shawty Got Skillz2Share!:Cyberquilting/INCITE Radical Women of Color Media Skillshare - Cyberquilting/INCITE Radical Women of Color Media Skillshare We are ready now!!!! We have everything we need. So at the 2009 Allied Media Conference radic...
7 years ago
The Feminist Spectator

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