The Kitchen Sisters–aka Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva–are launching a new NPR series today that explores the hidden world of girls. The series will highlight “stories of coming of age, rituals and rites of passage, secet identities—of women who crossed a line, blazed a trail, changed the tide.” The photo above is of Fadimata Walett [...]

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You know the drill: every few months, a national publication comes out with an article dissing young feminists and specifically calling out their lack of pro-choice activism. A new blog is saying, “Excuse you.” Meant to make visible the young voices fighting for access to abortion care in the United States, the boldly named “Abortion [...]

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Note: Maya is a feminist blogger who caught my attention when she wrote a smart-ass response to all the hookup culture hubbub of the other week. Here, she defends 27-year-old feminist Twitter-activist Angie Jackson, who live-tweeted her abortion a few weeks ago to demystify and deshame the procedure (check out one of Angie’s YouTube videos [...]

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Starting today, the documentary “Very Young Girls” will be airing on Showtime until 4/17. From the GEMS website (an amazing organization in NYC serving girls and young women who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking): “Very Young Girls” is an expose of human trafficking that follows thirteen and fourteen year old American girls [...]

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This is a truly enjoyable and nuanced interview on GRITtv with early Riot Grrrl upstarter, rock star, feminist, and Girldrive interviewee Kathleen Hanna (who, might I add, is wearing AMAZING glasses!). Kathleen explains what she means by horizontal oppression (which she also discusses in Girldrive), ponders the different value in zines and blogs, rolls her [...]

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Cyndi and Gaga kick sex-educating ass on Good Morning America. P.S. Georgie calls them the glam Thelma and Louise! (Not sure that’s entirely apt, but I liked it anyway for obvious reasons.) UPDATE: More C & G being awesome on the Today Show.

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When Alexis told me that there’s a fierce community of feminists in Durham, NC, she wasn’t playing. Thanks to the new Google buzz (about which I’m not totally sure how I feel), I got wind of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist’s Mind. It’s essentially an intergenerational school of Black feminism, hosting “survival schools” [...]

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Today at 1 p.m. EST, Girldrive interviewee Veronica Arreola will be hosting a discussion here with Ana Roca Castro, Catherine Singley, and Marisa Treviño about how the recession has affected Latino families, and specifically the roles of their matriarchs. Here’s the description: The Great Recession has impacted every family and Latino families are no different. [...]

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I will be on Pacifica KPFK tomorrow at around 7:30 p.m. PST, talking about Girldrive on the station’s Feminist Magazine show. This is my first specifically West Coast engagement–hopefully there will be more with my Bay Area Girldrive readings coming up! Be sure to tune into 90.7 FM tomorrow or stream here. Also, I don’t [...]

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Continuing with my sex ed series (which I didn’t realize I was doing, but I guess I am!), may I present a convo I recently had with the pro-sex feminist bad-ass, Heather Corinna. Heather is the thirtysomething director of Scarleteen, the most popular sex-ed web resource for teens, a veteran feminist activist and author of [...]

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