The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently made some surprising changes to the way whole-body imaging is to take place at airports across the nation. The use of these machines have privacy and personal security issues for everyone, but will likely impact women more than men. Prior to the changes, the TSA had said that whole-body [...]

In a 2001 speech at the University of California at Berkeley, Judge Sonia Sotomayor expressed a hope that “a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”  Eight years later, shortly before Justice David Souter announced [...]

Imagine a box big enough to fit 25 women reduced to video-game size.  Imagine this is all happening on a screen before your very eyes, and that the box has 4 sides at least 5 times higher than any of the women but has no top, so that you can observe. Imagine a narrow band [...]

This Sunday, Fem2.0 welcomes several Momocrats, who will help us continue the conversation started last week about mothers and feminism: Fem2.0 Twittercast: Feminism is Where You Are/What You Do Sunday, May 24, 2009, 10 PM EST To join the Twittercast, see here Moderators: Jaelithe Judy, Julie Pippert, Joanne Bamberger & Cynematic of MOMocrats Cynematic says: [...]

That’s right — the new, new feminism was born on May 8 and weighed in at 9 pounds, 14 ounces. My older stepdaughter is now a mom to a daughter (and no, you may NOT call me Grandma)! While I often wonder what the world will be like when my daughter, PunditGirl, is a woman, [...]

This week, we’re doing the Twittercast originally scheduled for Mother’s Day: Fem2.0 Twittercast: Mommies and Feminists – The Great Divide Sunday, May 18, 2009, 10 PM EST To join the Twittercast, see here Moderators: Veronica Arreola and Tifanei Moyer There is an apparent disconnect betweet mom bloggers & feminist bloggers. What lives at the intersection [...]

Nona & I talked over the phone for a good 45 minutes about this article. I knew immediately that she got the issue as I was communicating it. Her prompt was simple – why aren’t young feminists connected to mother issues and vice versa?

 As someone who has been a feminist activist in some form [...]

by Gloria Feldt from On The Issues Magazine Were you thinking we were done with elections and could take a few minutes to celebrate a pro-woman administration and a Democratically-controlled Congress that appears ready to embrace pro-choice and pro-equality measures? Sorry, my Sisters. Elections are never over when they are over. Candidates are already gearing [...]

We are soooo excited to be a part of the Women Who Tech Telesummit (via phone and web) coming up on May 12th. Women just like you from around the world will be dialing in to sessions about, among other things: * Tools Galore In Online Communications * Women and Open Source * Breaking Through [...]

by Merle Hoffman from On The Issues Magazine As a person who feels that war should be the strategy of last resort, I still like to read military history. I find myself going back to the wisdom of Sun Tzu who wrote in “The Art of War” in the 6th century BC: “If you know [...]