The job description is after the jump!

WNYC Pop+Politics Media and Outreach Intern

About 2010 Midterm Election Specials Pop + Politics hosted by Farai Chideya

Farai Chideya is well known to many public radio listeners as the former host of NPR’s Newsand Notes, and as guest host on WNYC and PRI’s The Takeaway and APM’s The Story. This fall, Farai Chideya will take listeners somewhere new. Her three Pop + Politics midterm election specials, from WNYC and American Public Media, will ask the big questions about how our nation is dealing with issues of race in an era of both President Obama and the Tea Party movement and in a country where many individuals are still struggling to recover financially. Farai takes listeners into battleground states to hear first hand from politicians andvoters what matters the most to them..

These three Pop +Politics with Farai Chideya news specials will ask questions about how America is changing, particularly in terms of race and identity, through the lens of politics andculture. This is NOT more of the midterm horserace.

Here’s an overview each one-hour Pop and Politics program:

* Race, Rage and Reconciliation: American Politics Viewed from the Road (October 21)

* New Voters, New Challenges (October 28)

* The New Map: America, Redrawn and Reconceived (November 4)

Media and Outreach Intern

Pop+Politics seeks a highly motivated Social Media and Outreach Intern to help support a broad range of social media and outreach strategies that will build community and drive online discussion around race and the midterm elections in2010. This position is ideal for applicants interested in gaining experience in social media, online organizing and communications.

Reporting to and working closely with Pop+Politics online communications staff, the Intern’s projects may include:

· Optimizing Pop+Politics Twitter, Facebook and other social media assets

· Monitoring and engaging with online conversations pertaining to the midterm elections

· Researching and maintaining a database of key online influencers, media makers and bloggers who we should engage around Pop+Politics

Required Skills and Experience

Strong social media skills; familiarity with Twitter and Facebook
Strong reading, writing and interpersonal skills
Familiarity & experience with Microsoft Excel and Word
Ability to communicate ideas and information effectively
Strong understanding of political process

This is a part-time (10-15 hours a week) opportunity available immediately and will continue through November. The intern will be paid a small stipend and should be based in New York City.

To apply, please send a resume and short intro email to Nona Willis Aronowitz, naronowitz@wnyc.org, and Kerry Donahue, kdonahue@wnyc.org, as soon as possible. Please include days and times you are available.

I’ll be speaking at around 2:45 p.m. on whether or not a conservative woman can be a feminist. I’ve thought a lot about this topic since Emma and I went on Girldrive–what used to be a kneejerk reaction (no!!!) has become a very complex answer for me, especially after meeting an activist midwife who worked at a Crisis Pregnancy Center, or a nun-to-be who claimed the word feminism, or a 19-year-old entrepreneur and bible college student. I’ll get more into it at the debate (as much as you can get into something in 15 minutes), but the bottom line is this: Feminism leaves room for lots of personal struggles, contradictions, and negotiations–that’s to be expected, and to me, feminism needn’t have a laundry list of requirements. But actively working on policy and legislation that roll back women’s rights, and putting forth distortions and lies about contemporary feminism, is IMO fundamentally unfeminist. Here we have a very important distinction between the personal and the political, between tradition and the future, and between universal human rights and partisan positions. That’s all I’m giving away for now…but I’ll be sure to post a transcript after the event. Details are below:

When: Saturday, July 31

Time: Debates start at 2:30 p.m.; mine goes on at 2:45 on Soapbox 1

Where: Washington Square Park, across the street from the Newberry Library, Walton between Dearborn and Clark, Chicago

Girldrive lady Tecla just came out with a new album! It’s free, but not for long, so don’t sleep. More on that soon.

Amanda Hess of The Sexist writes a chilling investigative piece on the rape of a college student in DC.

Newsweek on IUDs for young women.

An awesome interview with Julie Zeilinger, the 17-year-old founder of the teenage feminist blog The F Bomb.

In New York, a judge rules that an engagement ring is a deposit on a wife. See, this is why I abhor the lyrics to “Single Ladies,” even if this video of a 3-year-old jamming (then crying) is the MOST AMAZING THING YOU’LL EVER WATCH EVER.

Exactly. h/t Deborah Siegel, via Center for Economic and Policy Research

When: Today, February 4th, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Where: Bluestockings Bookstore, 172 Allen St., at Stanton (near the 2nd Ave. F or V)
What: This reading will feature an all-new lineup of Girldrive women, including:
Jennifer Baumgardner, esteemed Third Wave feminist author and activist…Una Osato, politically charged performance artist…Likwuid Stylez, entrepreneur and hip hop artist…Plus, Susan Bee and Marianna McClellan will be reading for Emma.

Amazing international female road trip (better late than never)

BeckySharper on Don’t Call Me “Miss”!

If you’re in the Chitown area, Girldrive interviewee Lenelle Moise, pomosexual poet playwright performer, will be performing her one woman show WOMB WORDS, THIRSTING at Columbia College downtown tomorrow at 7 p.m.

Mokay, some words from the readers tomorrrow…

An excerpt about my essay in Belladonna:

“In her own contribution to Belladonna #4, “Emma’s Poetry,” Nona Willis Aronowitz writes: “Emma was always disappointed that ‘GIRLdrive the book’ could not possibly embody the headiness of ‘GIRLdrive the experience’. . . She wanted us to be more conspicuous characters in the story of GIRLdrive, more than just the talking heads of the odyssey that forged connections between hundreds of women across thirty-five cities.” Nona’s prose, both here and elsewhere, conveys the energy and intelligence of GIRLdrive. The two women knew how to seize the moment, identifying the gaps and the overlaps between their forebears and feminists (or “not”) of their own generation…”

And more specifically about Emma:

“It is clear from Belladonna #4 that feminism, photography, and artistic expression have lost a fierce, articulate, forthright, inquiring practitioner, the voice and vision of a young adult who was romantic, idealistic, impetuous, talented, and knowledgeable beyond her years. Her pace was fast, eager, and self-reflective. Emma’s photography (for which she earned a degree with Honors, with images such as the one here, of a friend) played with the notion of masquerade: “In all of the photographs, a set of elusive and unknowable eyes peers out from the layers of artifice, trying to see and be seen. There is a tragic element, as despite all the attempts at engendering an image that matches a mental picture, the woman underneath the clothes and behind the skin remains a mystery to us and to herself.” That Emma suffered so much at the end of her life confers a harder look at the issues that consumed her.”

It’s a great piece. Check out the rest here.