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I got a Kindle this spring and have had a chance to do a lot of summer reading for pleasure.  One of the great things about owning an electronic book is that if one is in a quandary about what to read next, one can instantaneously search what other e-books have been popular with the millions of readers who own one too.  That is where I found Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I …

Issues that pertain to women and girls are rarely approached in Hollywood. At least not in an authentic way. Take the issue of the sexual assault of underage teen girls by adult men. Hollywood gives us Lolita and a bevy of other seductress “teens” who, often enough, are played by older female actors.  In these films, the sexual exploitation of teen girls is misrepresented, romanticized and eroticized. Meanwhile, teen girls have little voice.
“Trust” is a different sort of film. The movie is about the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl and …

This interview at The Sorority is reprinted with the express permission of its subject, Sarah Singh. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.

New York based filmmaker Sarah Singh was born into India’s royal family as a Princess of Patiala before relocating to America when she was two. Sarah has travelled across dangerous territories to highlight the story of partition in her award-winning documentary The Sky Below, a contemporary exploration of the creation of Pakistan and the 1947 Partition of …

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Okay, I’ll admit it. I watch the SyFy Channel. For the uninitiated, “SyFy” is the cable channel formerly known as the “Sci-Fi Channel” where one used to be able to find reruns of shows like Star Trek and Night Gallery.
However, in an effort to branch out beyond its reliable demographic of 18-24 year old fanboys, it rebranded itself and began showing programming ostensibly designed to appeal to a broader audience. As a woman …

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Just last week, while I was in Parshall, Colorado, I had the opportunity to listen to a private performance of a Western singer/songwriter, Juni Fisher.  Being an East Coast Northerner I never knew there was a difference between Country Music and Western Music.  I was educated by one of the ranch owners at the Bar Lazy J Ranch who was sponsoring the event that Western Music tells a story about Western life, about work …

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“Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” the third installment in this $1.5 billion franchise that just set a new record for a Fourth of July weekend opening, follows what has become a Hollywood action movie tradition of virtually erasing women, despite the fact that women buy 55% of movie tickets and market research shows that films with female protagonists or prominent …

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While watching Shawshank Redemption on television on Sunday night I was sickened by a face that showed up on my screen during the commercial break.  It was Keith Olbermann and he was advertising the revival of his crappy show Countdown.  MSNBC is no longer his employer, so they weren’t paying for the ad space.  Instead, a new network is trying their hand at Sexism 101 and have hired Olberhe-mann to continue his slanderous woman-hating …

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Recently my almost 4-year-old daughter picked out Pinkalicious at the library. In the book a little girl named Pinkalicious must stand up to a group of mean girls clad in black clothing. The follow up to Pinkalicious is called Purplicious (oh yes, this is a series) which details yet again…how Pinkalicous must stand up to a group of mean girls dressed in black clothing. Ugh.
A week later I receive an adorable looking book about a mouse named Chrysanthemum. Oh joy! …

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Society has always been unnerved by the advancement of women; each succeeding generation has manufactured its own scheme for stalling progress and reminding women of their place. In the 1980’s as women rushed off to graduate school and up the corporate ladder, we had the era of shoulder pads and big hair and make-up. The shoulder pads were a subliminal message to the men folk that we were on the same page; the broad …

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According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a study was conducted in 2010 to determine the amount of time children between the ages of 8-18 years of age spend using entertainment media, which includes TV, cells, internet, ipods, and video games. The results are astounding: the average child spends almost 11 hours a day, seven days a week, entrenched in them. (Here is a PDF version of the findings for further perusal). And they’re not the only ones …