Codepink Takes on BP in Houston This week Codepink was in Houston to protest BP’s handling of the Gulf Coast spill. Some of them, dressed like birds and fish covered in oil, demanded that BP end offshore drilling (see photos of the protest). They sent their message to BP’s headquarters on Westland Boulevard in Houston [...]

Are you exciting for the long weekend? We are definitely ready to turn off the laptops and enjoy these days with friends and family. Before that let’s check out our recommendations for the following days.  Reading Materials: The role of mother is always one of the most complicated and difficult in women’s lives. The book [...]

Yesterday, protesters from Codepink were in Houston to protest BP’s handling of the Gulf Coast spill. Nearly 100 protesters turned out — some wearing nearly nothing but their shoes and others costumed like birds and fish covered in oil — and demanded that BP end offshore drilling. (Click the photo below for the entire Flickr [...]

We are ready for the weekend but we couldn’t leave without our recommendations for you! Reading Materials: Are you shoe-enthusiastic? Do you have a closet only for your shoes? You should read the book "Bad shoes and the Women Who Love Them" by Leora Tanembaum.  Read some of the extreme practices women have undergone in [...]

by Fran Luck; posted with permission from On The Issues Magazine. Political feminism barely exists in corporate mainstream media. Shows like “Oprah” and “Tyra” – boasting female audiences in the tens of millions – owe their existence to space opened up by the feminist movement, but rarely, if ever, acknowledge that such a movement has [...]

Chloe at Feministing.com writes about the small number of women in late night comedy.  Last Thursday, the Paley Center for Media and the Writer’s Guild of America East hosted a panel on women in late night comedy writing. The five panelists and the moderator, all women (and all white), were or used to be writers [...]

by Megan Carpentier; posted with permission from On The Issues Magazine. When my parents instilled in me the belief that I could do anything a boy could do, I’m not sure they really knew what they were going to get. They probably pictured me playing baseball (I turned to ballet) and taking calculus (I chose [...]

Check out the new feature on the blog, What We’re Reading. We’ve asked a few people to share with the Fem2.0 community links to blog posts, articles, etc., that they come across and find interesting, and to tell us why. Here are some highlights: Andrey Ternovskiy’s Web site, Chatroulette newyorker.com Gloria Pan says: Checked it [...]

Here we are again with our recommendations. Enjoy your weekend! Reading Materials A lovely book by Lisa J. Shannon: A thousand Sisters, my journey of hope into the worst place on earth to be a woman. Lisa at 29 years old she started running and raising money for women in Congo. Enjoy her journey in [...]

If you missed it, Betty White hosted Saturday Night Live the past weekend and Jos at Feminisig.com wrote about it. Betty White hosted Saturday Night Live this past weekend following a Facebook campaign for her to appear on the show. She was joined by female alums of the show’s cast Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, [...]