Urban Honking

wam photos courtesy anh dao kolbe feminism in mainstream media: what gives? Oh! Ha ha! [PITHY COMMENT] l-r salon.com’s rebecca traister, yrs truly, marisa meltzer, kara jesella farai chideya gives melting pot vs. gumbo multi-pronged strategy keynote speech caryl rivers gives opt-out revolution is a myth keynote speech hey, flip thru! here is today’s list […]

The Center for New Words’ Women, Action and Media conference, where I panelized this weekend with author Marisa Meltzer and Salon’s Rebecca Traister, was inspiring beyond my expectations. I’ll post my full notes/thoughts later tonight–still kinda janked from the Dramamine, word to feng wah bus–but until then, read Robin Herman on Caryl Rivers‘ presentation about […]

Here in y’old Viacom Towneship, I thought the only people who knew my inside work line were Marisa, Jessica and Joey. But sometimes the little red light on my phone glows red, even though i have only been here two weeks, and when I check my voicemail, it is full of messages from people like […]

Jessica and I spent the entire month of November ’05 investigative-journalisming the alleged exploitation of workers/women at Suicide Girls dot com–interviewing models, lawyers, professors, owners, defendants; racking up BANUTZ phone bills and alienating practically everyone else in our lives because of our single-minded focus on an issue about which we both cared very deeply. As […]

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this morning, before the jog, it is helen chadwick! eroticism starts here. the week has pulled upwards, reluctantly, monday’s sting and haze cleared away by the block boys tossing rowrs and “sup gorgeous”es for the first time since last frost–hey shaawwwty–and now the warmth, beckoning. it seems right to emerge.

HI! Before I forget: don’t forget to come holler at me & Marisa & Kara and Farai Chideya (!) et al at the Center for New Words’ Women, Action and Media Conference: Making Noise, Making Change at MIT in Cambridge! Marisa and the ILLUSTRIOUS Rebecca Davis and I will be on the Beyond Bust and […]

Dear Ms. Julianne Escobedo Shepherd: Thank you for sharing with me your concerns regarding the crisis in immigration that our nation faces. I have heard from many of my New York constituents on this important topic. Enclosed is my most recent statement on immigration reform. I hope that you will read the statement in its […]