In The Life Media presents a conversation between Isis King, America’s Next Top Model’s first transgender contestant, and Janet Mock, a transgender advocate and staff editor for People.com. Together they discuss representations of trans people in the med…
Jeremy White for the International Business Times: “Rep. Lisa Brown has found a new venue. Brown, a Democrat who was barred from the floor of Michigan’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives after saying the word ‘vagina’ during an impassioned a…
Megan Kearns writes for Fem 2.0 and asks: “In a genre that exhibits strong female characters yet often objectifies women’s bodies or reduces them to ancillary love interests…how was ‘The Avengers’ portrayal of women?”
Mallary Jean Tenore writes for Poynter: “[Sara] Ganim started covering Penn State’s sex abuse scandal as a 22-year-old, long before it became a national story. She broke the story that a grand jury was investigating Penn State Assistant Football Coach Je…
Anna Holmes writes for The Washington Post: “Rapid-fire, image-based appraisals of women’s worth — what I call ‘objectify first, ask questions later’ — have become so commonplace that they are less exception than rule. Perhaps even more troubling, the i…