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Join us for three performances of ‘Sex In Mommyville’; Thurs., Fri., and Sat., at M.O.M. this week. Diva’s Do Lunch with Shira Adler and more. Buy tickets online here or call our front desk. 212.452.9816 (Check for the exact location at the bottom of the Schedule page.)

Everyone who has ever been born has had a mother; most women have been …

The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, filmmaker Olivia Klaus (biography), and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
I remember the first time I visited prison. I was nervous that night and my mind was racing with scenes from movies movies of barbed wire and hardened criminals. As the guard slammed and locked the gate behind me, I really had to wonder if I had made the right decision. I was going to begin volunteering for the group Convicted Women Against Abuse (CWAA) – a …

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Writes Forbes contributor Victoria Pynchon: Just last year, sexual harassment awards in the tens of millions of dollars were handed down against corporate giants Aaron’s Inc. ($15 million in compensatory and $80 million in punitive damages) and UBS Financial Services, Inc. ($10.6 million).
Together these sums accounted for nearly a quarter of all awards made in EEOC proceedings the previous year.
These are costs …

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When I first picked up “Sex and the Single Girl,” I assumed that since it was published in 1962 and written by Helen Gurley Brown, a woman famous for crafting cover lines about the 500 best ways to give blow jobs, it would be filled with a lot of antiquated and crass crap.
I was wrong.
Or rather I was partially wrong. There’s …

Reprinted with the express permission of the author, from the October 4, 2011 edition of The Los Angeles Times. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.

In person, in prison and in the media, the woman convicted by an Italian court of murder — and now exonerated — was subjected to all manner of outlandish, misogynistic behavior.

Amanda Knox is nothing if not a good story. The pretty young American who headed to Italy for her junior year abroad, fell for …

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                                      PM David Cameron (center)The Daily Beast just published an extract of a Daily Mail/UK article offering ample evidence the women are still held in thinly veiled contempt by some of their male counterparts:
British Prime Minister David Cameron is in the doghouse. In a bid not to alienate female voters, Cameron on Sunday apologized for comments he made to two female Parliament members that have been criticized as sexist. In April, Angela Eagle, Parliament’s …

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* Bumped Up at 4 p.m. ET Saturday — The walk and rally are going on right now! Check the evening news and give us reports! *
UPDATE from the Villages blog 29 minutes ago: “SlutWalk NYC Preparing to Take Over Union Square“ (Go to Runnin’ Scared for more Voice news coverage.) Included is this great video:

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Original post: Below the fold, I discuss the history of Saturday’s event and its …

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Earlier this year, Saudi women started a movement to be allowed to drive. It sounds ridiculous — that women cannot get behind the wheel of a car and drive — and yet this is their reality. Although there is no actual law that says women are not allowed to drive cars, there is a religious edict that insists on the segregation of men and women; therefore, if women need to get anywhere, a man …

The following post is cross-posted by Erin McNeill’s blog Marketing, Media, and Childhood. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
Watch this trailer from the Media Education Foundation, which highlights the powerful messages boys are getting from current popular media. Or, as they put it, “Takes aim at the forces in male culture that condition boys and men to dehumanize and disrespect women.”
The issue with negative media messages to our children, as I see it, is not so much how those …

Have you seen the recent t-shirts marketed by major retailers like JC Penney to teenage girls?  Here’s the messaging: “Allergic to Algebra” and “I’m too pretty to do homework so my brother has to do it for me.”
Can you believe it?  Disgusting.
Well we’re doing something about it!
The New Agenda is teaming up with Girl Talk to offer a line of Girls’ Empowerment T-Shirts!
We say:  TAKE THAT JC PENNEY!
Today is Day of the Girl, and in honor we invite you to purchase an empowerment t-shirt for your daughter, niece, sister, …