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). […]
Year: 2010
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 […]
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 reported […]
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 […]
Sisters Doin’ It For Themselves: Last-Minute Holiday Downloads
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 Christmas Cornucopia and Shelby Lynne’s Merry Christmas.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Ms. Q&A: How Lisa Henson is Moving the Company into the Future—and Pushing Girls Toward Empowerment
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 […]
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, […]