My favorite part of the day was all the talk on Gender and the media. I’d heard about Geena Davis’ institute on Gender in Media before, but it was great seeing her on stage talking about the negative representations of women in the media. The institute brings their research to studios, who seem to be [...]
Mashable #SocialGood Summit Day 2 Recap
September 21st, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: activism · feminism · gender roles and division of labour · media · technology
Buy happiness through “Eat, Pray, Love” baubles
April 13th, 2010 · No Comments
“We relate to the theme of a woman’s journey for self-fulfillment and happiness,” says founder of Dogeared, the company with the magical touch for marketing the fundamentals of life (and the new product line designed for the upcoming release of Eat, Pray, Love the movie). I can’t say I’m surprised, but is anyone else out [...]
Tags: activism · economic development · environment · feminism · human development · media
Spirituality for everyone
January 8th, 2009 · No Comments
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Tags: media
On race in music
December 6th, 2008 · No Comments
Thanks mom for sending me this blog post by Suzanne Vega on her new song, “Daddy Is White.” You can listen to it, too.
If you’re happy and you know it–update your status!
December 6th, 2008 · No Comments
If you’re feeling great today, you may end up inadvertently spreading the joy to someone you don’t even know. This network from 2000, colored for average mood, shows yellow as happy, blue as sad, and green as in-between. New research shows that in a social network, happiness spreads among people up to three degrees removed [...]

