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Roe v. Wade – What It Means is Everything
It’s Trust Women Week, and I decided to participate by entering this piece in a blog contest sponsored by the National Council of Jewish Women. While I didn’t win, they will be featuring a portion of...
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Birth Control: It’s What Women Want
I read an article in the New York Times this week about the kerfuffle that has been ignited, albeit somewhat belatedly, about the Obama administration decision to require all providers of health care...
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Happy Women’s History Month!
Happy Women’s History Month! If you’ve been watching the news, you know that there has been a wave of not-so-friendly-to-women-sentiment (to put it nicely). Just this year, we have had a popular radio...
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Women’s History Month: The Labor Edition
The goals and ideals of the labor movement and the women’s movement have a lot in common – fairness, work-life balance, equality and safety for workers, and of course a living wage. So it should come...
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Happy Equal Pay Day! We’re All Caught Up
Today is the day! The day that we finally catch up to men and what they made in 2011. Today is Equal Pay Day, the day when the typical woman’s salary finally catches up to that of her male counterpart....
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Daenerys: Feminist Outlaw in the Game of Thrones
Originally betrothed to her brother, then traded in marriage to a Dothraki warrior by said betrothed brother, Daenerys Targaryen started off in a bad place for someone born to the only family that...
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Netroots Diary #2: So Much Progressivism, So Little Time
It’s Day 2 of the conference and I am blissfully overwhelmed by all things progressive. I have attended panels on women and social media, social media for advocacy, comedy for social activism, sexual...
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Netroots Diary #3: So Long #NN12.
Netroots, I miss you already. I feel like I was at progressive camp. I completely missed out on news from the outside world. If it wasn’t on Twitter with the #nn12 hashtag, I probably didn’t see it....
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Happy 40th Title IX!
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity...
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Colleen for Communications Director!
I’ve been involved with WIN for some time now, and feel that it’s only right to bring this relationship to the next level. It’s time for me to give back a little more, and to grow professionally and as...
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Happy Birthday Vice President Biden
Seventy years ago today, one of my favorite feminists was born: Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. He was born in 1942, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the first of four siblings. After a move to Delaware, and...
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Pro-choice, Pro-woman.
I was raised to be anti-choice, or as I called it at the time, pro-life. While we weren’t terribly observant, we were Catholic, and that surely fueled at least part of that identity. We never talked...
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Young Women of Achievement Awards: A DC Favorite
It’s finally here! Tonight is the Young Women of Achievement Awards! In addition to the brilliant comedy of our emcee Liz Chadderdon, and a much anticipated keynote address from Cecile Richards, we...
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Equal Pay Day: Or Why I’d Like My $11,000 Back.
This post is part of the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) Equal Pay Day blog carnival. There will also be a tweetchat today from 1-2pm EDT. Follow along at #TalkPay, #equalpayday and with @nwlc This...
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It’s Time to Get More Family Friendly
The U.S. does a lot of things well. We foster innovation, value free speech, and provide a very comfortable standard of living for a lot of our citizens. Just not everyone. There are a lot of reasons...
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Remembering Dr. Tiller
“Abortion is not a cerebral or reproductive issue. Abortion is a matter of the heart: for until one understands the heart of a woman, nothing else about abortion makes any sense at all.” – Dr. George...
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DC Women Need Your Photo
This has been cross-posted from the DC Abortion Fund site. We are thrilled to announce that we have partnered with some great organizations working on issues that matter a lot to us, like reproductive...
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