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2 Broke Girls Finale: Long Duck Dong Redux?

jchius Icon Posted by Joanna Chiu

May 6th, 2012

As tonight’s season finale of CBS’s hit new sitcom 2 Broke Girls illustrates, three decades after Sixteen Candles’ cringe-worthy portrayal of foreign exchange student Long Duk Dong, degrading stereotypes of Asian men continue to proliferate in popular media.  2 Broke Girls premiered last fall with the highest rating for a new comedy series since 2001. […]

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Asian American community, Pop Culture, Race |

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The Bachelor and Bachelorette race discrimination lawsuit: read the complaint here

jpozners Icon Posted by Jennifer L Pozner

May 3rd, 2012

I’m working on story for The Daily Beast about a racial discrimination lawsuit filed late in April against ABC and the various production teams behind “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette.” I’ve interviewed reality TV producers, high-level media executives, former and aspiring future Bachelor cast members, entertainment lawyers and TV reporters for this piece, which I’ll […]

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African Americans in Entertainment, American Culture, Asian American community, Feminism, Latina/o Community, Legal & Political Affairs, Pop Culture, Race, WIMN’s Executive Director’s Blog, Outrages & Responsibilities, Reality TV |

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Liveblogging the Sidney Hillman Foundation Awards: Journalism for the public good

jpozners Icon Posted by Jennifer L Pozner

May 1st, 2012

The 2012 Sidney Hillman Awards have begun, as I discussed earlier.
To give you a sense of the heavy hitters in independent journalism represented in this room, even the bloggers and press here to cover the event are, themselves, challenging, critical voices in the feminist and independent online media sphere. I am sitting in a […]

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American Culture, The Blogosphere, Media Justice Now, WIMN’s Executive Director’s Blog, Issues in the News, Journalism, Media or Advocacy Jobs |

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Liveblogging the Sidney Hillman Foundation Awards: #Hillman2012

jpozners Icon Posted by Jennifer L Pozner

May 1st, 2012

I’m liveblogging tonight from the Sidney Hillman Foundation Awards, which honor excellence in journalism for the public good. You can follow @SidneyHillman as well as Hillman staffer and friend-of-WIMN’s Voices, Lindsay Beyerstein, on Twitter, and the team of bloggers who are livetweeting with the hashtag #Hillman2012.
Before I begin, some info about the program and tonight’s […]

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American Culture, Political Dissent, Media Justice Now, WIMN’s Executive Director’s Blog, Issues in the News, Journalism, Media or Advocacy Jobs |

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Women rights work get international recognition by the Nobel Peace Prize

rookellos Icon Posted by Rosemary Okello-Orlale

April 20th, 2012

When the Nobel Peace awarded Peace Prize to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, her compatriot Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights, the Nobel Committee gave recognition to women who have been demanding for years, the equal involvement of women in all […]

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Feminism, Human Rights & Civil Liberties, Legal & Political Affairs, Media Policy Reform, War |

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Hillary’s Hair: More newsworthy than the Summit of the Americas?

jpozners Icon Posted by Jennifer L Pozner

April 16th, 2012

With the popular Texts from Hillary Tumblr highlighting the Secretary of State’s emerging cool factor (the subject of a fun “Melissa Harris-Perry” segment Sunday), there’s no questioning the news value of yesterday’s Daily Mail story built around a photo of Hillary Clinton dancing the night away in a Havana cafe after the Sixth Summit of […]

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Domestic Politics, Electoral Politics, Feminism, International Media, WIMN’s Executive Director’s Blog |

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Whose body is it anyway?

ajosephs Icon Posted by Ammu Joseph

April 15th, 2012

Gloria Steinem’s recent talk at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi kicked up quite a storm. A few days after the event the Delhi edition of The Hindu, a leading Indian newspaper in English, provided uncommon space to different takes on issues of sex work/prostitution and human trafficking, the subject of Steinem’s talk.

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Feminism, Health & Sexuality, Human Rights & Civil Liberties, International Media, International Media Activism, Violence Against Women, Issues in the News |

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Updated: Liveblogging International Women and Media Symposium in Antalya, Turkey

jpozners Icon Posted by Jennifer L Pozner

April 4th, 2012

Today, I have the distinct honor of speaking about representations of women in the media at the International Women and Media Symposium in Antalya, Turkey. The opening statements are being made in part by the Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc.
This two-day conference is bringing together Turkish Parlient leaders, politicians, media owners, newspaper editors-in-chief, broadcast journalists, […]

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Feminism, Human Rights & Civil Liberties, International Media, International Media Activism, Media Justice Now, Pop Culture, Race, Technology & Communication, WIMN’s Executive Director’s Blog |

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Power of women mobilising

rookellos Icon Posted by Rosemary Okello-Orlale

April 3rd, 2012

Kenya’s G10 shines in New York as delegates marvel the principle of sex boycott.
Read this on the Kenyan woman an on-line newspaper for women

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Liveblogging #WAMNYC: Social media for organizations

jpozners Icon Posted by Jennifer L Pozner

March 31st, 2012

I’ve been liveblogging all day from the #WAMNYC conference, and below as always, if there are any errors, please attribute to me, not to the panelists, as I’m typing quickly but it’s impossible to capture verbatim what these fabulous, fast-talking New York women have to say:
Social Media for Organizations:
Moderator: Elana Levin,
Panelists:
Sarah Kennedy,
Yana Walton, communications […]

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The Blogosphere, Feminism, Pop Culture, WIMN’s Executive Director’s Blog, Journalism, Media or Advocacy Jobs |

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