Cross-posted with permission from Jon Pincus. Click here to read part 2: Changing the Ratio. The third wave embraces contradictions and conflict, and accommodates diversity and change.  – Rosemarie Tong, Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction The web site for the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco this week credits venture capitalist John Doerr with coining [...]

Reading Materials: This book by Susan G. Komen, “Promise Me: How a Sister’s Love Launched the Global Movement," couldn’t express in a better way the love between two sisters. By the time her sister Susan Goodman Komen died of breast cancer in 1980, at age 36 , she had started the public fight against the breast [...]

Cross-posted with permission from Madama Ambi  I liked Melissa Harris-Lacewell’s take on Sharron Angle’s "let God take care of it" position re no abortion for rape/incest victims as she stated it last night on The Rachel Maddow Show.  Harris-Lacewell said:  I’m a person of faith & I like the idea that god can help, but [...]

Reading Materials: A few years ago, she was an unknown teacher from Chicago. Now the bestselling author Blue Balliett is back with her new kid-friendly mystery. “The Danger Box." A story that takes place in a small city with new mysterious characters (via LA Times). Women fight in the past, for what now we seem [...]

Cross-posted with permission from Marcia G. Yerman Most Americans would be astonished to learn that of the approximately 12,500 individual chemical ingredients in personal care products, the overwhelming majority has never been reviewed for safety by any governmental or “publicly accountable body.” It is estimated by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics that Americans generally use ten [...]

 “Of all creatures who live and have intelligence, we women are most miserable. …People say that women lead a life without danger inside our homes, while men fight in war; but they are wrong. I would rather serve three times in battle than give birth once.” Medea’s complaint, Athens, Greece, 431 BC (Euripedes, Medea 230-51.G)  [...]

Reading Materials: “Bitter in the Mouth,” a novel by Vietnamese American writer Monique Truong, will give you a sweet taste at the end. A book about a young girl’s auditory disorder, her family and the secrets of each family member (via LA times).  Courtney Martin tells us everything about the latest generation’s social justice work [...]

Reading Materials: Gail Galdwell writes, "I had a friend, and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too." The author shares with us the importance of her friendship with Caroline Knapp through the book "Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship" (via La Times). Sometimes you have [...]

Cross-posted with permission from Madama Ambi of PatriarchalDISORDER You are growing up in a house with no mirrors.  That’s right, no mirrors.  But wait a sec, it’s not just your house!  As you venture out into the world, you discover there are no mirrors anywhere.  You can’t see what you look like and must rely [...]