Top 10 Ms. Blog Posts of 2010

As the year draws to a close, we at the Ms. Blog look back proudly on our first nine months of blogging (we began on March 8, International Women’s Day). We’ve put up 1,000 posts, had ...Read More

Dec. 31, 1912: “Suffrage Mission Accomplished”

Nothing like it had ever been done before. In fact, until four years earlier, no group of women had ever been bold enough to defy custom and propriety by marching even a few city blocks in a public ...Read More

A Bitter Pill: Birth Rates Fall, But It’s No Reproductive-Rights Victory

It seems that the Great Recession may have done for America’s teens what countless hours of puritanical preaching have failed to: dissuaded them from having babies. Federal health authorities ...Read More

Repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Back to the Future?

We now have decisive action from Congress in its long-awaited repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. But what many don’t realize is that repealing this 1993 law moves us ahead in our thinking ...Read More

Last-Minute Xmas Downloads: Sisters Doin’ It For Themselves

Need some perfect season-greeting music for Christmas Eve and Day? You can’t go wrong with two excellent new albums by fiercely independent, iconic women artists–Annie Lennox’s A ...Read More

Feminist Fairy Tales for Last-Minute Xmas Gifts

Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Certainly not Little Red Riding Hood–at least not before Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm penned their literary versions of her story in the 17th ...Read More

My Little NON-Homophobic, NON-Racist, NON-Smart-Shaming Pony: A Rebuttal

I have been a lifelong feminist, and as an artist working in the animation industry for more than 16 years I have striven to do right by women and girls in the animated projects I have been part ...Read More

Last Day of Feminist “Advent”–Catch Up on What You’ve Missed!

When I was a very young child, I received a late November package all the way from my grandmother in Germany. It was a large, cloth Advent Calendar, designed to hang on the back of my bedroom door ...Read More

Lisa Henson: Keep the Puppets, Engage the Girls

Ah, the holidays. As I sit here, flicking through the rounds of seasonal television, I have to ask: What state would the world be in if children didn’t have an alternative to watching Charlie ...Read More

Don’t Ms. These Feminist Events: Holiday Roundup Edition

Sorry for the lag in posting fabulous feminist events, but as you know this is a grossly hectic time of year as we transition into 2011 via holiday family visits, frustrating family political chats, ...Read More

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