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Entertainment

Anxiety Expert Dr. Tracey Marks Gives Us Practical Advice To Stop The Daily Doom-Scrolling

Anxiety Expert Dr. Tracey Marks Gives Us Practical Advice To Stop The Daily Doom-Scrolling

War in Ukraine, inflation, political elections, lingering COVID strains. There’s enough going on throughout the world to drive anyone into a constant state of anxiety. But psychiatrist and mental health […]

Politics

Meet The Gen Z Media Maven Bringing Down Barriers To Access Credible News

Meet The Gen Z Media Maven Bringing Down Barriers To Access Credible News

With the proliferation of misinformation online, election deniers becoming a staple of the Republican party, billionaires buying up social media platforms, and journalism under attack, it’s understandable to feel overwhelmed […]

Entertainment

Author Susan Azim Boyer. Image by Kyle Christensen

Iranian-American Author’s YA Debut Addresses Impact of Harmful Racial Media Stereotypes

In ‘Jasmine Zumideh Needs A Win’ (out November 1, 2022, Wednesday Books) Iranian American debut author Susan Azim Boyer depicts a high school election derailed by negative media coverage of […]

Contributors

Tackling The Bad Lessons From Teen Lit

Tackling The Bad Lessons From Teen Lit

By Magnolia Potter A child’s teenage years are the time they dabble in adult decisions while not fully inoculated against the very real consequences of the adult world. It’s an […]

Today's Wonder Women

Young Latina From South-Central Los Angeles Disrupting The Media Landscape With Her Own Publication

Young Latina From South-Central Los Angeles Disrupting The Media Landscape With Her Own Publication

This article is part of an exciting series we launched in 2018 called Today’s Wonder Women – designed to celebrate the inspiring, impactful, empowering and extraordinary things ordinary women are […]

Causes

The Shocking Way Men Are Secretly Shaping The #MeToo Conversation

The Shocking Way Men Are Secretly Shaping The #MeToo Conversation

By AnnaMarieHoulis for Fairygodboss In the wake of high-profile workplace sexual harassment accusations and movements like the #MeToo campaign, a wealth of research has come out to shed light on […]

Working Women

Hollywood Agent Creates Networking Group To Help Women Leverage Their Power

Hollywood Agent Creates Networking Group To Help Women Leverage Their Power

In the wake of the 2016 Presidential election, citizens across America were activated like never before. The result of a man who openly-bragged about sexual assault and spent his entire […]

Fashion & Beauty

Standing Ovation For British Vogue’s New Editor Hiring A Number Of People Of Color

Standing Ovation For British Vogue’s New Editor Hiring A Number Of People Of Color

There has been plenty of talk about diversity in the fashion industry over the past few years, yet we are still seeing a huge disparity in terms of people of […]

Working Women

CNN’s ‘As Told By Her’ Project Celebrates Iconic Female Characters & Women In Television

CNN’s ‘As Told By Her’ Project Celebrates Iconic Female Characters & Women In Television

We’re all about the female gaze and celebrating the voices and stories of women. Over the past few years we have seen some incredible TV and digital streaming shows featuring […]

Contributors

Media Messages About Fat Bodies Do More Damage Than Good When It Comes To Health & Body Image

Media Messages About Fat Bodies Do More Damage Than Good When It Comes To Health & Body Image

By Liz Greene I remember with startling clarity the first time I realized I was fat. The summer camp I attended was big on encouraging kids to forge a lifelong […]

Contributors

Fitness Media Needs To Stop Excluding Diverse Bodies. Health Isn’t A One-Size-Fits-All Industry

Fitness Media Needs To Stop Excluding Diverse Bodies. Health Isn’t A One-Size-Fits-All Industry

By Louise Green About 15 years ago, on a rainy night, I stood on the corner outside my local running club. I leaned against the cold concrete wall, watching the […]

Contributors

A Letter To My Future Daughter: I Will Teach You How To Be A Strong Woman

A Letter To My Future Daughter: I Will Teach You How To Be A Strong Woman

By Kate Thora Dear Future Daughter, In the many years before you were born, women have accomplished so much. Once unable to vote, disallowed from choosing the individuals they were […]

Interviews

How LA Film School CEO Diana Derycz-Kessler Is Mentoring Filmmakers & Promoting Media Arts Education

How LA Film School CEO Diana Derycz-Kessler Is Mentoring Filmmakers & Promoting Media Arts Education

In the San Diego University Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film’s annual ‘Boxed In’ report during the 2015-2016 period, it found that women made up 26% […]

Entertainment

Amazon’s ‘Good Girls Revolt’ Is The Feminist Answer To ‘Mad Men’ We’ve Been Waiting For

Amazon’s ‘Good Girls Revolt’ Is The Feminist Answer To ‘Mad Men’ We’ve Been Waiting For

It’s seems crazy to think of a moment in our history, not too far behind us, when women were forbidden from doing things in society based on gender, and we’re […]

Sports

Getty Images Launches Initiative To Change Visual Representation Of Female Athletes In Media

Getty Images Launches Initiative To Change Visual Representation Of Female Athletes In Media

With the amount of articles and op-eds pertaining to the sexist reporting around female athletes during the Rio Olympics this summer, we may finally have reached a tipping point in […]