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‘Radical Grace’ Tells Stories Of 3 Defiant American Nuns Under The Vatican Gun
This film comes at a major crossroads in the Catholic Church, and the nuns are everything that’s right with the institution. They stand with the marginalized, and won’t be bullied by the hierarchy. I feel a deep connection to the women featured in ‘Radical Grace’. ~ Susan Sarandon, ‘Radical Grace’ Executive Producer
Congo’s Dr Denis Mukwege Calls For 100% New Recruits In Army & With No History of Sexual Violence
Last week Dr Mukwege described the Congolese army as being mired in a culture of violence and as being ‘completely sick’, so sick that it should be disarmed and replaced with new recruits who have never committed sexual violence or fought for a violent militia, reports The Guardian.
The UN estimates that one-third of the rapes that occur in the eastern part of the country are committed by members of the army. Dr Mukwege’s questioning the wisdom of the international community spending large sums of money to support an army that is the greatest perpetrator of violence against women and sometimes men, too, is timely.
Anne is reading …
1. Vogue magazine July profiles Baltimore presecutor Marilyn Mosby
2. New data from Gallup’s Values and Beliefs Survey reminds us that Americans of all genders are sexual hypocrites.
3. In 2012, the United Nations Economic and Social Council set down 52 indicators crucial to measuring gender equality in any country. 80% of Data is missing.
4. Even though women make up 51 percent of the U.S. population, only about 4 percent of movies are directed by women. Bloomberg interviews women directors.
5. . The Swedish Association for Sexuality Education has settled on a new word to describe female self-pleasuring.
RedTracker Women’s News | Republicans & Women | Women Leadership Surveys | Birth Rate Reversal
Anne is reading …
1. Who knew that Republicans are losing ground with working mothers?
2. Women who are delaying pregnancy should freeze their eggs by age 35.
3. The share of US births to unmarried mothers dropped in 2014 for the first time in nearly two decades.
4. Two new studies explore the challenges around cultivating more women leaders.
5. Arianna Huffington has signed a new contract.
Read on: RedTracker Women’s News | Republicans & Women | Women Leadership Surveys | Birth Rate Reversal
Terry Richardson Embraces Pussy Riot As Many Supporters Of Feminism Vomit
Lady Gaga remains Richardson’s buddy and Pharrell Williams complimented Richardson at the recent CFDAs. That’s their right, but it doesn’t change the opinions of large numbers of fashion followers and insiders who find it particularly agregious that Terry Richardson would photograph such principled actors in the human rights drama as members of Pussy Riot and think he would get a pass. Not that he cares. Terry gets some free publicity and that’s all that matters. ~ Anne
Angelina Jolie’s Rousing Feminist Speech For Women In South Africa
On June 11, Angelina Jolie spoke in her role as special envoy to UNHCR at the biannual African Union Summit in Johannesburg. The theme of this year’s summit was the ‘Year of Women’s Empowerment and Development’. Read on.
Michelle Obama Takes ‘Let Girls Learn’ Project To London’s Mulberry School
America’s First Lady Michelle Obama was greeted like a true rock star when she visited London’s Mulberry School to promote her joint $200 million US/UK partnership in support of girls’ education. Launched in March, the ‘Let Girls Learn’ initiative will support teacher training, girls’ leadership camps and other community-based global projects that promote the advancement of girls.
The Mulberry School is in ‘an area of high deprivation, writes the BBC. Most students are from the Bangladeshi community and use English as a second language. Read on in Sensual Rebel
Ashley Graham Tells TED: I’m Bold, Beautiful & Brilliant Even With Back Fat
IMG model Ashley Graham gave one of the most inspiring talks ever before a sold-out audience of 450 people in Valencia, Spain during an April 2015 TEDxBerkleeValencia event. Watch it here.
Dominating the stage with confidence and enthusiasm for her commitment to being a body-image activist for all women, Graham who is a 27-year-old Nebraska native said:
‘My body, like my confidence, has been picked apart, manipulated, and controlled by others who didn’t necessarily understand it. I had to learn to reclaim my body as my own, and in reclaiming my body as my own, I understood as a woman that I had a greater purpose to redefine feminine beauty.’
Join the campaign, stand with over 6 million strong girls supporters everywhere: http://one.org.
We’ve joined forces with 9 of Africa’s most talented artists to create a new anthem that celebrates the power of girls and women everywhere.
This song is a call to action for you to put pressure on your leader to empower girls and women in the poorest countries, so that they can lift their own communities out of poverty.
‘Strong Girl’ features vocalists Waje (Nigeria), Victoria Kimani (Kenya), Vanessa Mdee (Tanzania), Arielle T (Gabon), Gabriela (Mozambique), Yemi Alade (Nigeria), Selmor Mtukudzi (Zimbabwe), Judith Sephuma (South Africa), new talent Blessing Nwafor (South Africa) and the video stars Omotola Jalade Ekeinde (Nigeria).
The pilot episode of CBS’s new ‘Supergirl’ has been leaked online. Starring Melissa Benoist as Kara Danvers, aka Kara Zor-El, ‘Supergirl’ will be CBS’ biggest new show, writes Forbes.
Benoist is also joined by Mehcad Brooks, Calista Flockhart, David Harewood, Chyler Leigh and Laura Benanti. Flockhart, who came to fame as Ally McBeal and is married to Harrison Ford, plays Kara’s boss Cat Grant, who in the trailer is a ‘Devil Wears Prada’ vision of Anna Wintour with more sex appeal. Cat Grant is a self-made media magnate, who started her career as a reporter and has now built her company CatCo into a global powerhouse.
Downloiads aren’t going as fast as expected, writes Business Insider. Leaked late Thursday night, it’s estimated that 250,000 downloads will be done by Sunday noon. In 2014, HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ had the dubious honor of being TV’s most pirated TV show with 48.4 million downloads.
Writing for io9, Rob Bricken gives an in-depth, positive review of ‘Supergirl’.
Jane Fonda Says Being A Fashion Icon Is A ‘Hoot’ In W Magazine June 2015
Jane Fonda delivers spectacular images and an in-depth interview with Lynn Hirschberg in the June issue of W Magazine. This is not the only place Jane is talking.
AOC wrote last night that Jane Fonda was one of two recipients of the first-ever Women in Motion awards,presented in Cannes by Kering CEO François-HenriPinault. Discrimination against women by the film industry is a major, front burner topic of conversation in Cannes this season.
Producer Megan Ellison was the other Women in Motion recepient and she delivered terse words to white men in the audience, for which she received s rousing ovation. Never one to be shy with words, Jane Fonda also gave a spirited response about the film industry’s gender gap.
‘The fact is that most film directors are men, white men. Most major roles are male roles and (it’s) the reason that I’m excited about this award,’ she said. ‘Women have to become part of the very heart of movie making.’
Fonda Stops The Set For Breastpumping
Fonda is currently starring in the Netflix series ‘Grace and Frankie’, playing with Lily Tomlin as two women whose husbands — the couples being long-time friends — fall in love with each other. A nice story about Fonda walking her talk in the workplace came to light yesterday when actor June Diane Raphael, breastfeeding her newborn son, joined the comic series. Raphael was late to the series’ first table read, because she was busy pumping reports Huff Po.
It’s very hard in the workplace to get time from your employers to pump and to do it in a sanitary and safe environment, so I found on set that Jane was really an ally for me in terms of getting what I needed — I needed to stop working every three hours and pump breastmilk,” Raphael said. “And that was a women’s issue, that was a health issue, that was an issue for many reasons. So having her, this iconic activist, in my corner and being one of my bosses was incredible and really helpful.
Tina Fey Strips To Her Spanx On David Letterman #LastDressEver
This is my last time wearing a fancy dress on a talk show and conforming to gender norms out of respect for you.
Backed by a roster of corporate sponsors including Walmart and Coca Cola, actor Geena Davis has opened the 1st Annual Bentonville Film Festival running from April 5-9.
Davis explains that it’s not the first film festival to specialize in women and diversity, it’s the first film festival to promise theatrical releases for the winning entries. ‘It’s unheard of in the world, actually’ explained the Oscar-winning Davis. ‘It’s the only festival offering distribution across theatrical, digital and on TV and on DVD … That’s just part of our push to show how commercial diverse films can be.’
About 75 films will be screened over the four-day festival, which will also include panel discussions and a celebratory “A League of Their Own” baseball game, featuring appearances by Rosie O’Donnell and two original members of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League.
As founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media in 2007, the actor plans to expand the festival beyond Bentonville to include educational outreach and events throughout the year.
Research funded by Davis’ institute and conducted by the University of Southern California found that women — who constitute more than half of the US population — typically make up just 17 percent of on-screen crowd scenes. As Davis points out, from Congress to the business world, this 17 percent female factor is unyieldingly consistent.
Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority has refused to ban entirely a new Tom Ford fragrance ad starring Cara Delevingne but has ruled that the image cannot be displayed within 100 metres of any schools. The ad has been criticised as being ‘inappropriate’ and ‘degrading to women’.
Complaints mounted after a huge billboard appeared on Brick Lane in East London.
The ASA disagreed that the ad is ‘degrading to women’.
‘Whilst they [Tom Ford] accepted the model was nude…they believe neither her pose nor facial expression were sexually suggestive and were classical in nature, and had been depicted in art,’ ruled the official ASA statement.
A Tom Ford Beauty spokesperson argued that the advert was “sensuous, not sexual”, adding that it was displayed in a ‘hip urban neighbourhood in which commercial advertising of a similar artistic aesthetic was common’.
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