Monsters in movies are us, always us, one way or the other. … John Carpenter My love of horror movies is a product of both nature and of nurture. My […]
Author: Holly L. Derr
“The Mindy Project”–Comedy and Contradiction
Watch it while you can: Mindy Kaling’s The Mindy Project, which premiered last week to mixed reviews, may or may not have a long life. Most of Kaling’s hardcore fans […]
Did Someone Say Vagina?
As a theater director, the first person I thought of when I heard the news from Michigan was Eve Ensler. I’ve directed The Vagina Monologues twice and, despite unsettling doubts […]
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sandra Bernhard
I have never really understood Sandra Bernhard. It’s not that I haven’t tried. After admiring her fantastic turn as ballsy sexual harassment lawyer Caroline Poop on Ally McBeal, my absolutely […]
Breaking Down the Bogus Arguments Against VAWA
The Violence Against Women Act, or VAWA, initially passed in 1994 and reauthorized in 2000 and 2005, is up for reauthorization again. To many, reauthorizing VAWA seems like a no-brainer. […]
A Look Inside the Mind of a Suffragist
It’s the year 1917. Susan B. Anthony has been dead for 11 years, Elizabeth Cady Stanton for 15. The National American Woman Suffrage Association, currently led by Carrie Chapman Catt, […]
Helen Hunt Runs the Show in “Our Town”
Actor Helen Hunt, as the Stage Manager in David Cromer’s production of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” currently running at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, Calif., is unlike the Norman Rockwell-esque narrators of most productions — she has real power.
New Fire From Cherríe Moraga
Feminist icon Cherríe Moraga’s play New Fire is a “ceremonial performance”–an intricate interweaving of documentary video and live performance, of fact and factual fiction, of real ceremony and the performance of myth.
Project Girl Power
UPDATE 2013: Project Girl Performance Collective is now Girl Be Heard. A couple of weeks ago, the staff of Ms. magazine and the Feminist Majority Foundation were treated to a live, in-office […]
Et Tu, Sebelius? HHS Secretary Blocks Over-the-Counter Plan B
Today, as expected, FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg approved a pharmaceutical application to make emergency contraception Plan B available over the counter without an age restriction. Then, flabbergasting reproductive-health advocates, […]