Today is International Women’s Day, a holiday started in 1911 largely by Clara Zetkin, who pushed for it after a second International Conference of Working Women was held in Copenhagen.
In my daily existence, I deal on a strictly local basis. My job as a reporter confines me to five towns in the Chicago suburbs. [...]

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I was on GRITtv last Friday talking about Girldrive and other issues of the day (like the pro-life Superbowl ad) with the spitfire Texan feminist Shelby Knox and the take-no-shit director of the Women’s Media Center, Jehmu Greene. Check it out:

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May I present Girl-drive.com’s first guest blogger Julie Block (remember when I linked to her post-feminist manifesto and declared that she should be a famous writer? Well, she’s starting here). Julie, who is 23, originally from Evanston, Ill. and a student at Cornell where she writes for the Cornell Daily Sun, will be posting approximately [...]

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A friend tipped me off to this new independent film that’s premiering at the IFC Center in New York tomorrow. It’s about a young adopted African American girl with white Jewish lesbian parents who decides to contact her birth mother. It explores lots of intertwining identities–all through the lens of a young woman–and it’s directed [...]

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I’ve never forgiven television’s hesitance to shy away from the word “abortion.” Whether you’re pro-life or pro-choice, it’s a reality, it’s an issue a lot of people care about…and it’s not like women are going to go rush out and have an abortion just because they hear the actual word and not some “shmashmortion” substitute. [...]

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Girldrive is stealthily featured on this week’s episode of “Anyone But Me,” a teen web show that just started its second season this month. It’s probably the first queer-themed show aimed at teenage girls, a kind of baby L Word (Susan Miller, one of the creators, also wrote/produced the L Word) that follows New York [...]

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It’s that time of year again..the “best of”s and the “funniest moments” and the “worst outfits” of the year. This week’s extra special, cause it’s the end of a decade. Sarah takes us through some of her “lessons” learned at Target Women:

Related: Along with other fabulous feminist bloggers, I weighed in on Woman of the [...]

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I have some awesome news, which is that starting today at 1 p.m. CST I will be a regular contributor on Chicago Public Radio’s Vocalo 89.5 FM! I, along with Molly Adams and sometimes Brian Babylon, will be chatting about feminism and other burning topics of the moment. I’ve always been a secret wannabe radio [...]

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Months ago, I posted about Lady Gaga’s reluctance to claim the word “feminism,” even as she denounced double standards and other injustices in the music industry. I hadn’t given Gaga much thought since then, until Ann Powers of the L.A. Times interviewed me about how I think the 23-year-old star fits into the narrative of [...]

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Cross-posted at Sadie Magazine

If you know me at all, you’re aware that abstinence-only sex education, or even preachy abstinence-plus sex education, is a huge pet peeve of mine. I’ve always been boggled by how much information about sex our culture witholds from teenagers, exactly when it’s needed most—when they’re becoming newly independent, curious, and sexual. [...]

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