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 — [...]

Cross-posted with permission from Marcia G. Yerman. This article is dated May 30, 2010. May 30th is Military Sexual Trauma Awareness Day.  The issue is starting to get more traction in terms of visibility, Congressional hearings, and acknowledgement from agencies that span a full range of alphabet soup. On Thursday, May 20th, a morning hearing [...]

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 [...]

Cross-posted with permission from patriarchalDISORDER. I’m waiting for Tipper Gore to talk about why she ended her forty-year marriage to Al Gore.  I’d be surprised to discover that he’s the one who needed a change, not that I know anything about Al Gore’s inner life but mostly because I can well imagine how a woman [...]

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 [...]