Three nights after making homophobic remarks at the San Francisco club Yoshi’s, singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked finally offered an apology. Of sorts. She insisted that she did not say, nor does she believe, that “God hates homosexuals (or anyone else). I said that some of His followers believe that.” She added, “And my statement equating repeal [...]
If you’ve spent any time on social media today, you’ll have heard about the dreadful coverage of the Steubenville rape verdict by some news outlets and TV networks. The prime target of ire has been CNN, which focused attention right away on the two perpetrators who were found guilty of raping a 16-year-old young woman [...]
According to news and social media reports coming out of San Francisco, long-respected singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked–known for such songs as “Anchorage” and “If Love Was a Train,” went on a stunning anti-gay marriage rant during her show last night at the club Yoshi’s. She reportedly said to audience members, “You can go on Twitter and [...]
Steubenville, OH, high school football players Trent Mays, 17, and Ma’lik Richmond, 16, were found guilty of rape today in a juvenile court trial. Judge Thomas Lipps also deemed Mays guilty of disseminating a nude photo of a minor. Richmond was sentenced to a minimum of one year in a juvenile correction facility and Mays [...]
For the past 28 days of Black History Month, photographer Eunique Jones Gibson has put up a photo poster a day of an African American child posed as an historic figure–from Martin Luther King, Jr., to Malcolm X to Frederick Douglass to Barack Obama to Muhammad Ali. Of course we at the Ms. Blog are [...]
When you’re marking your Oscar ballot tomorrow night and hoping that you win the betting pool, note once again that there are NO women directors on it. Not just Kathryn Bigelow (ZeroDarkThirty) is missing (despite her film being nominated for Best Picture), but so are a number of other fine women who have helmed terrific [...]
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of one of the classic texts of feminism’s Second Wave, Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique. The book was a bestseller, the title entered the lexicon and women were offered a name for “the problem that has no name.” Here’s a little Feminine Mystique at 50 quiz for [...]
The Supreme Court announced this afternoon that it will consider both Hollingsworth v. Perry (the case involving California’s same-sex marriage initiative, Proposition 8), and Windsor v. United States, which involves the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) According to the SCOTUS Blog (the prime source for this post) the case arguments will likely [...]
She was a volunteer for a polio vaccination campaign in the eastern province of Kapisa province. Afghanistan, is one of just three countries in the world, along with Pakistan and Nigeria, considered a polio-endemic place, so there’s been a concerted effort to administer preventive medicine to millions of children. Anisa, a 10th grader at Mahmoud [...]
In what’s being called a first, one-half of the 16 dramatic films chosen for competition at the prestigious 2013 Sundance Film Festival this coming January in Park City, Utah, are directed by women. In comparison, only three women-helmed dramas were selected for the 2012 fest. And to get a larger picture of how limited directorial [...]
