This has been re-posted with permission from the Spring 2007 issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online. Deborah Siegel is creator of the group blog Girl w/Pen and the author of Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild. If you have signed on to this issue of the Barnard Center for Research on [...]

9:00   Welcome 9:15   Multimedia Presentation from the National Women’s History Museum: History of the Women’s Movement 9:30   Keynote address 10:00   Break 10:15   Plenary: Feminism on the Move – Where We Were and Where Are We Now?     Details Moderator: Shireen Mitchell, Vice Chair, National Council of Women’s Organizations Elisa Camahort Page, [...]

9:30   Multimedia Presentation from the National Women’s History Museum: History of the Women’s Movement 9:40   Keynote address 10:15   Plenary Panel: Feminism on the Move – Where We Were and Where Are We Now? We can’t look forward without examining where we’ve been and where the movement stands today. We’ll kick off the [...]

Our second Twittercast is coming up on Sunday at 10 p.m. and I’m providing some more detail this week to help everyone join the conversation and keep track of what people are saying. Different hashtags were being used last week, and I want to recommend that everyone use the tag "#fem2" at the end of [...]

I have been a long time political activist and feminist. Yes, I said feminist, and proud of it. I know that for some people that is not a good word but here is what it means to me very simply: anyone (male or female) who believes in the equality of men and women. Last month [...]

If the 2008 election showed women one thing, it’s "yes we can." Hillary Clinton’s dynamic run for the presidency has forever opened doors for women seeking higher office. But there’s still much to be done. Even after all of our years of progress, we still gained very little in Congress this year and, in government [...]

As an African-American male blogger who sometimes comments on/covers celebrities in pop culture, I am often amazed at how callous some of the posts around the blogosphere have become regarding women and their dress and their sex lives. The tonic snark of celebrity blogging – the antidote to the fawning coverage of evening entertainment shows [...]

We had great turn-out for the first Fem2.0 Twittercast last night, and we can’t wait for next Sunday! "What does feminism mean to you?" sparked many different threads among everyone that was there, and we saw lots of themes emerge. Just a few: reactions to the term "feminism," the public view of the term women [...]

Our first Twittercast is approaching fast, and to help you get ready I’m providing an easy way to follow the conversation when you log on Sunday night. We have compiled a list of  Fem2.0 fans and attendees who will be Twittering about the conference simultaneously, answering questions and starting conversations to gear ourselves up for [...]

When I entered college in Chicago in 1993, I had no idea what email was. In fact, it took me almost all fall semester to send an email to my friend in Maine. But by the time I graduated, I had my own website and a pseudo-blog on it. What happened? The 1994 Republican takeover [...]