Take Your Foot off My Neck

by | Jun 15, 2011 | Blog, Sexism

By Charlotte Taft from Reality Check I am furious. As the Director of the Abortion Care Network, a non-profit organization that supports independent abortion providers and challenges stigma, I know more than I want to about the recent attacks on women’s reproductive...

Saudi Woman Exposes Hate & Is Jailed

by | May 27, 2011 | Blog, Sexism

The Saudi woman attempting to expose the bias and wanting other Saudi people to join her in a protest next month will stay in jail for another 10 days while authorities decide her fate. Manal al-Sharif, a 32-year-old woman, featured in the video above was to be...

Ann J. Simonton & Activism Archive

by | Apr 11, 2011 | Blog, Media

Sports Illustrated Retrospective of Swimsuit Covers Woman Warrior 25th Anniversary Issue Women of the Year Simonton shaves Hair Ms. Magazine Using Consumer Boycott for Social Change Throwing in the Towel by Bruce Horovitz Los Angeles Times, Business San Francisco...

Are Video Game Makers Becoming Responsible?

by | Apr 7, 2011 | Blog

If the game has to do with the seriousness of head concussions during sports play; the answer is, “Yes.”  If it has to do with rewarding youth when they murder, steal and abuse women; the answer is, “No.”   Schwarz wrote in the NY Times recently that the...

When Will We Ever Learn?

by | Apr 4, 2011 | Blog

The discovery of more Abu Ghraib-like images has once again brought to light the question of whether one should publish images of war. Please read the Der Speigel articles including, “The Good Boy and the Kill Team,” by Goetz and Hujer and the Rolling Stone’s,...