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Unstoppable and In Solidarity: WOMEN AT WORK

The Roots and Wings Project Founder/Creative Director Jesse Bliss and the California Arts Council Cultural Pathways Grant Present WOMEN AT WORK, a transformative works-in-progess experience that brings forth new stories from powerhouse writers. WOMEN AT WORK is an innovative evening of truth finding the way to light through tales being birthed and realized by women …

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Henry Vinson Looks at the Different Ways Men and Women Grieve the Loss of a Loved One

Losing a loved one is traumatic for both men and women. However, it is also true that, generally speaking and largely due to cultural and social conditioning, men and women experience and express grief differently. Understanding and appreciating these differences can go a long way towards helping both the bereaved and the members of their …

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The Feminism of Brienne of Tarth: Fighting Like a Girl with a Heart of Gold

With her trustworthy armor and sword discouraging any sort of interaction, aggressive fighting style, and pragmatic and reserved demeanor, it’s easy to fall into the temptation of putting Brienne of Tarth in a box and keeping her there—Brienne the Warrior, Brienne the Maid of Tarth, Brienne the Beauty. Luckily, Game of Thrones doesn’t, for the …

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Women Speak of War Wounds: Survivors of Rape and Genocide at Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

“Women at the Frontline of Violence World Wide,” an exhibition at Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, documents the oral testimonies of nineteen women survivors of mass violence in four regions of the world: “Jewish female survivors of the Holocaust by Bullets in Eastern Europe; Roma female survivors of the Porajmos, the genocide against the …

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MATRIARCH: “She’s Wide Awake Shining Light

The Roots and Wings Project Founder/Creative Director Jesse Bliss and the California Arts Council Cultural Pathways Grant present MATRIARCH, a transformative theatre experience that demands justice for women. MATRIACH is an unorthodox and intersectional exploration of the roles women play in a patriarchal society and the urgent need to transform the dynamic. In a time …

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Women Photographers

As a photo-journalist who traveled all over the world to visually document foreign cultures in the 1980s, I was very intrigued to explore the photo exhibit “Women of Vision, National Geographic Photographers on Assignment,” currently at the Forest Lawn Museum (December 11, 2018-April 7, 2019). So I drove to Glendale on a rainy weekend and …

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Women Directors

There were even more women who directed American movies in 2018 than in 2017. See my article Women Directors: Movies and Television. As a journalist in the Hollywood Foreign Press, I had the privilege of interviewing many of them; some had directed before, others are newcomers. Read here what they said. Ava du Vernay, from California, …

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A Man’s World?

The End of Men and the Rise of Women is the name of a disturbingly good book by Hanna Rosin. It was sitting lazily around my house. Inviting me to pick it up. My wife had checked it out from the library. She does that a lot. Reads. Listens to books. Mostly women’s empowerment books, …

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Joan Blades on Arlene Blum

Look What SHE Did! is delighted to share a new interview with the formidable Joan Blades (co-founder of MoveOn.org, MomsRising.org and LivingRoomConversations.org). Her recent TED Talk is nearing a million views! Joan tells us about Dr. Arlene Blum, a scientist/mountaineer who led the first team of American women to scale Annapurna AND discovered the carcinogen in kids’ …

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Jennifer Jason Leigh

Sex, Lies, and the Issue that’s Larger than Harvey Weinstein

Every time a character is killed in The Hateful Eight, Quentin Tarantino’s revisionist Western distributed by The Weinstein Company in 2015, blood and butchery splatter across Jennifer Jason Leigh’s expectant face. Tarantino stages these violent outbursts, and the degradation of the female lead, for gleeful male laughter. The residue on Leigh’s face is a porn …

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Cyndi Finkle on the Ground-breaking Julia Margaret Cameron

Cyndi Finkle tells us the story of photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, a woman whose revolutionary eye and personal commitment to her own vision broke ground in establishing photography as an Art. During a time where photography was a rigid and sterile craft, Julia shrugged off criticism of her technique to focus on how the images made …

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