I’ve posted before about how I regret rushing through the South on our original road trip–especially since it was one of the most fascinating stretches of the whole Girldrive experience. I’ve been doing an off-and-on Southern series to fill in the gaps, and it looks like two ladies from Hendrix College in Arkansas have helped [...]

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Here is a pretty awesome video explaining EMILY’s List, the longstanding organization that helps women get involved in politics–and more importantly, get elected. The catch question–Who Is EMILY?–reveals that EMILY is strong, liberal, pro-choice, fearless, sexy, and an incarnation of your favorite ass-kicking pop culture icon. (“Feminist” doesn’t make the cut, but they pretty much [...]

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This is kinda last minute, but if you’re free tonight, go to this networking event for theater artists, hosted by the Guerrilla Girls (a historic, badass group fighting gender discrimination in the arts, who will be guestblogging in May!): WHEN: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 WHERE: Bluestockings Radical Books, 172 Allen Street (btw. Stanton & Rivington) [...]

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Note: This is a guest post by Morgane Richardson on her amazing project, Refuse the Silence. Have a great idea for a guest post or series? Email me at nona@girl-drive.com. As an undergraduate Woman of Color, I spent four years fighting for change within my college institution and had little time to think about my [...]

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Politically charged performance artist and Girldrive lady Una Osato will be performing her multimedia one-woman show, Recess, in NYC Wednesday through Thursday. The show is directed by Moises Belizario and follows a group of 7-year-olds navigating their way through the NYC public school system. I got a chance to see the show a few months [...]

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Check out this video on M.I.S.S., where I answer questions about Thelma and Louise, the problem feminism has with race, and Girldrive Part 2. And here’s me talking about Women Making History (this video is kind of big even on the smallest setting–sorry!): Also check out the interview I filled out on the website (one [...]

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The BBC is doing a documentary series on feminism, and last week, an episode aired focusing on young women activists. This could have been a great opportunity to showcase the influential and brave things that young women do every day in the name of women, but instead the BBC took this opportunity to hash out [...]

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Sooooo it completely slipped my mind to post this beforehand, but I hosted a book salon over at FireDogLake last night about Anne Kornblut’s new book, Notes from the Cracked Ceiling: Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and What It Will Take for a Woman to Win. It was a really good book and a really smart [...]

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YES! Two women in the UK just started a blog called “Women Speak Out” in preparation for their very own road trip across the UK to find out what women think and feel about feminism and their lives. The trip, they write, was inspired by Girldrive. From their blog: Given that 2010 is a General [...]

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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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