Dodai @Jezebel tell us that “It’s Time To Confront Our Fear Of The Aging Female Face”. Actress Harriet Walter has curated an exhibit at London’s National Theater called "Infinite Variety," which celebrates something we seldom see in magazines or advertising: "the beauty of the aging female face. "As Janice Turner asks in The Times Of [...]

Did you know that breast augmentation is the ultimate "women’s issue"? Implants can critically damage women’s health and personal finances. They are for sale based on questionable safety studies paid for by multi-million-dollar, male-dominated industry. They target the ultimate symbol of our femininity, our breasts. Read all about it in this award-winning Glamour magazine article. [...]

We have a feeling that this weekend will be awesome. Hope you will enjoy it as much as we will do!! Reading Materials: Jessica Powers gives us the review for“Falling Apart in one piece: One Optimist’s Journey Through the Hell of Divorce”. How do people deal with a divorce? How they can handle every difficult [...]

Space Candy writes, Here is the thing about Helen Thomas: If you haven’t heard the news yet, White House reporter and columnist Helen Thomas has announced her resignation, effective immediately. This is in response to comments she made about Jews getting out of Palestine; you can hear the comment straight from her mouth here. I’m [...]

Breast Implants, Plastic Surgery and Hollywood Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 1:00 PM EST, here  Phone Number: (724) 444-7444 Call ID: 74229 Moderator: Melissa Silverstein, Blogger, Women & Hollywood Sybil Niden Goldrich, Founder, Command Trust Network Mary McDonough, Actress & Women’s Health Activist Dr. Diana Zuckerman, President, National Research Center for Women & Families Recently, when the [...]

This week was short but still really busy. Are you ready to enjoy the first weekend of the summer? Reading Materials “Lips Unsealed” by Belinda Carlisle, former lead singer of the Go-Go’s. The title is a reference to one of the band’s biggest hits. The rise and fall of the Go-Go’s is well known — [...]

A great piece by Lynne Harris in The Nation about how sometimes "teen pregnancy is no accident." Leyla W. couldn’t figure out where her birth control pills kept going. One day a few tablets would be missing; the next, the whole container. Her then-boyfriend shrugged and said he hadn’t seen them. She believed him—until she [...]

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 [...]