Advocacy

Kerry Washington Wins Big at NAACP Image Awards

Over the weekend at the NAACP Image Awards, Kerry Washington swept the show. She won three awards.

Kathryn Bigelow Wants You to Support Women Working in National Security

Some criticism against Kathryn Bigelow during The Hurt Locker era was lobbed against Bigelow’s statements that filmmaking for her isn’t about breaking gender roles. However, as Jessica Chastain said in her Golden Globes acceptance speech, “when you make a film that allows your char...

Watch This: See Jane Trailer from Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media

Geena Davis's commitment to gender in the media is truly inspiring. See Jane, an affiliated program with her Institute on Gender in the Media, focuses specifically on making sure that children's media has a balanced and varied portrayal of female characters. The below trailer illustrates som...

Emotional Creature Celebrates Girls Lives

There have been so few shows and events that truly reveal what it is like to be a girl that when you see truth - the good and the bad - you immediately know that you are seeing something special.  For me, the TV show that epitomized girlhood will always be My So Called Life, the Winnie Holzman ...

Political Video of the Day: Stockard Channing A is for: Always Remember

National treasure, Stockard Channing, recently did a video for the "A is For" campaign. With a group of women founders including Martha Plimpton, Lizz Winstead and Sarah Thyre, A is For brings awareness about the war on women taking inspiration and reclaiming Hester Prynn's branding in...

Political Video of the Day: Scarlett Johansson, Kerry Washington and Eva Longoria Are Voting Obama

In a video for MoveOn.org, actresses Scarlett Johansson, Kerry Washington and Eva Longoria give women some of the reasons why they should go vote for Obama in the upcoming election.

Political Video of the Day: Women's Voices: The Gender Gap Movie

In 1984, Jenny Rohrer directed Women's Voices: The Gender Gap Movie to inform people about the gender gap as the election approached.  With real life testimonials from women combined with visuals from cartoonist Nicole Hollander, the film was recently restored by NYWIFT.

Lizz Winstead, Co-Creator of The Daily Show, Creates Lady Parts Justice

Co-Creator of The Daily Show and one hilarious lady, Lizz Winstead recently launched Lady Parts Justice, a website using comedy to bring awareness to women about just how much we have to lose in terms of our reproductive rights with this upcoming election.

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