Sarah Haskins, who did Target Women and is one of my fave female comedians (and who has sold two screenplays!), left Current TV a few months ago. But she has a replacement! Erin Gibson, doing Modern Lady. She recently crafted a takedown of beer commercials–check it out below. I know, I know, easy target, but [...]

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You know how feminists, including yours truly, have been begging for that nuanced convo about sex, for that place between “virgin” and “whore”? Since years and even decades ago? Well, Therese Schechter, of whom I’ve been a fan since “I Was A Teenage Feminist,” is hard at work doing just that in filmic form. Her [...]

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I’ve often said that my feminist “click” moment was the day I wrote a fuck-you letter to Seventeen magazine, informing them that their magazine made me feel like total shit. At the age of 13, I was already making lists of the beauty products I needed, weighing myself obsessively, cutting out pictures of my future [...]

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Note: This is guest blogger Julie’s third guest post. Have a great idea for a guest series? Email me at nona@girl-drive.com. Julie’s note: A while back, I wrote a post (my first, in fact) concerning the multiple teen pregnancy-related storylines on TV. Around that same time a show first aired on The CW: Life Unexpected. [...]

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Attention young women: apply to this right now. The Omega Women & Power Conference is an intergenerational feminist event with millions of incredible women across the country. The schedule this year is formidable. Conferences in general are good ways to feel rejuvenated if you’re a weary activist, galvanized if you’re a newbie, refreshing if you’re [...]

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Note: This is guest blogger Lachrista’s third guest post. Have a great idea for a guest series? Email me at nona@girl-drive.com. During my undergraduate career, I had been actively interested in American visual culture and its affects on American women’s identities. The issue of visual culture’s influence on identity was always a contentious one for [...]

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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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Note: This is guest blogger Julie’s second guest post. Have a great idea for a guest series? Email me at nona@girl-drive.com. I farted in the library yesterday. I farted. In the library. I was sitting, minding my own damn business, and then I had to fart, so I tried to ease it out silently, you [...]

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The radio show I co-host on a weekly basis, Feminist Wednesday on Vocalo, will have the pleasure of chatting with Girldrive interviewee and CFW Impact awardee Veronica Arreola today from 1 to 2 p.m. CST. On tap: feminist parenting, on which Veronica is an expert, and women in science, which just got some airtime in [...]

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You know, I should be feeling pretty damn good about all the mainstream press young feminism has been getting in the last couple days. First, a long, thoughtful, and brave article written by three young Newsweek reporters, calling out their own publication for a kind of lingering sexism that’s hard to pinpoint. Then, yesterday, one [...]

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