Virtual Reality: A Futuristic Vision In Which Women Play In Equal Incubators
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A mere tech child or not, virtual reality is expected to be a $150 billion industry by 2020. Silicon Valley and gaming Internet culture in general are known for their hard-ass mentality about women in their midst. Because virtual reality is truly an original opportunity for creators, women are -- for once -- operating in a relatively level playing field. There is “no formalized industry, and therefore no industry hierarchy, making it particularly welcoming to outsiders and newcomers,” explains Julia Kaganskiy, director of the New Museum’s New Inc. incubator. “Effectively everyone is a newcomer, and there are virtually no insiders.”
Rudy Giuliani Sells His Soul & Reputation To Trump Misogyny & Egocentric White Male Nationalism
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Rudy Giuliani Sells His Soul & Reputation To Trump Misogyny & Egocentric White Male Nationalism
The asshat known as Rudi Giuliani, former mayor of New York, whose second wife Donna Hanover found out he was leaving her for the third wife Judith Nathan in a May,2000 New York press conference in Bryant Park, had a few choice words today about a woman president. I saw it live.
You see, Rudi Giuliani had a lot of style in telling wife #2 that she was toast, almost as much style as Giuliani's recent crude remark about immigrant dishwashers at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
Realistically, we shouldn't be upset that Rudi Giuliani suggested today that Donald Trump would be a better president "than a woman". Is that any woman, Rudy? Or just Hillary Clinton who won the Senate seat you were seeking until your spectacular marital problems and prostate cancer caused you to retreat from your campaign. Was the problem really your health?
Last Chance For Animals (LCA) Will Honor Prince Emmanuel de Merode, Director of Virunga National Park
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International nonprofit Last Chance for Animals (LCA) will honor Prince Emmanuel de Merode, Director of Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Anthony Caere, Head of Virunga's Air Wing. The two men will both receive the prestigious "Albert Schweitzer Award" at its annual gala on Saturday, October 22, 2016, at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, CA.
This year, LCA's fundraising gala will be centered on the plight of Africa's Virunga National Park and its critically endangered mountain gorilla population.
Emmanuel de Merode, who is married to Kenyan paleontologist Louise Leakey, the granddaughter of Louis Leakey, was shot by gunmen near Goma in April 2014.
Louise Leakey is the head of the Koobi Fora Research Project in Kenya's Turkana basin and is an assistant professor of anthropology at Long Island's Stony Brook University.
Doutzen Kroes Leads Knot On My Planet, Igniting Fashion Industry For Elephant Conservation
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Doutzen Kroes Leads Knot On My Planet, Igniting Fashion Industry For Elephant Conservation
Sadly, new reports suggest that we are losing ground in the battle to save elephants. The goal of the Knot on My Planet campaign is to raise $15 million for the Elephant Crisis Fund. In addition to Tiffany & Company and these models stepping up for elephants, superwomen Candice Swanepoel, Adriana Lima and Cara Delevigne are on board -- joining Miranda Kerr, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista and Naomi Campbell. These leaders of the campaign will incorporate a knot into their photos on social media to remind people to donate.
Women's News | Gloria Steinem Meets Amanda Stenberg | Meet Poised Taupe Where Brown & Grey Have A Baby
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Women's News September 4, 2016 AOC Front Page
Gloria, who came to fame in the early ’60s as an enterprising journalist, has blitzed the world for the past half century with her views on gender equality and women’s rights. She doesn’t have patience for Midtown traffic or the geographically challenged, and it’s clear that age hasn’t quelled her independent spirit. When I offer to take her luggage, she looks at me as if I’ve recommended she reserve a burial plot. “No, thank you,” she says with a laugh. “I’ve got it.”
Waiting upstairs in a suite to interview her is Amandla Stenberg, one of the new guards of feminism. Over the course of her 17 short years, Amandla has schooled the Internet on black hair, rejected the gender binary, and costarred in The Hunger Games. She graduated from high school this week—literally—and arrived earlier this morning on a red-eye from Los Angeles. As a makeup and hair team fusses, Amandla diligently reviews notes. “I had to psych myself up to do this,” she admits. “I’ve admired her a long time, but…I have some questions,” referencing the seemingly exclusionary brand of “white feminism” that defined Gloria’s era.
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Women's News | Roger Ailes & The Revenge of FOX News Women |
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Women's News September 2, 2016 AOC Front Page
It took 15 days to end the mighty 20-year reign of Roger Ailes at Fox News, one of the most storied runs in media and political history. Ailes built not just a conservative cable news channel but something like a fourth branch of government; a propaganda arm for the GOP; an organization that determined Republican presidential candidates, sold wars, and decided the issues of the day for 2 million viewers. That the place turned out to be rife with grotesque abuses of power has left even its liberal critics stunned. More than two dozen women have come forward to accuse Ailes of sexual harassment, and what they have exposed is both a culture of misogyny and one of corruption and surveillance, smear campaigns and hush money with implications reaching far wider than one disturbed man at the top.
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Women's News | Experts See Huge Progress For Females In The IUD Revolution
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Delaware has the highest unintended pregnancy rate in the country — 62 per every 1,000 women between 15 and 44. Fifty-seven percent of the pregnancies in the state are unintentional.
"I used to understand birth control as a way to prevent abortion," Delaware Gov. Jack Markell told me in a recent interview. "That's true, but now I have a different way of looking at it. This is really an issue about opportunity, and the opportunities women get when they have children when they want to."
The Delaware and Upstream partnership is how the mechanical vagina— and a team of Upstream staff members — ended up traveling to the Life Health Center in Wilmington.
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Women's News | Venus Williams Rebounds After Near Miss | Urban Agriculture & Eating Local
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Women's News Headlines August 30, 2016
Venus Williams became a professional tennis player in 1994 at age 14. Venus has seven Grand Slam singles events on her victory belt and 14 more in women’s doubles, won with her sister Serena, 34. Venus, with five Wimbledon singles titles wins, became the first African-American woman in 2002 to "earn the world’s top ranking in tennis since the onset of the open era in the late 1960s."
In 2011, her tennis career slowed, as Venus Williams battled injuries and Sjogren’s syndrome, an autoimmune disorder that results in joint pain and sometimes crushing fatigue. Under assault from the vagaries of life, Williams withdrew from the second round of the United States Open.
But she has regained momentum. . .
Venus Williams Struggles In First US Open Match
Update: Venus Williams narrowly escaped defeat on Tuesday, in the first round of her US Open match with Kateryna Kozlova of Ukraine, ranked 93rd. Venus had played 17 US Opens and never lost in the first round. Having reached the semifinals at Wimbledon, Venus was seeded sixth, her first top 10 seeding at the Open in six years. Read on at the New York Times
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