If there are two people whose conversations we’d love to listen in on, they would 100 percent be Michelle Obama and Tracee Ellis Ross. And lucky for us, that dream came true yesterday, when they got together at the United State of Women Summit in L.A. on Saturday for a frank—and oftentimes pretty funny—conversation about…
Read moreSo many women released great music last year: Cardi B., Kesha, Lady Gaga, Lorde, SZA, Pink, Katy Perry…and that’s just a few examples. And while some of these artists received Grammy nominations for the 2018 ceremony, the final list of honorees was predominantly male. This was perhaps most apparent in the Album of the Year…
Read moreOn January 29, 2017, exactly 364 days before Sunday night’s Grammy Awards, Lorde (the only female nominee in the coveted Album of the Year category) tweeted, “These old men in power have a storm coming, the likes of which they cannot comprehend.” On December 6, 2017, she retweeted it with an addendum: https://twitter.com/lorde/status/938538372087259136 Well, yes…
Read moreIn the dawn of 2018, we’ve already witnessed a wave of women rising. Women are standing up, speaking out, and continuing to organize and resist. It’s a contentious time, it’s a difficult time—and yet, I love it because our protests seem to be working. Within the first few days of the new year, Hoda is…
Read moreLess than a week after Lena Dunham had to apologize for defending Girls writer Murray Miller against accusations of sexual assault, 36 women from former Saturday Night Live casts have written a letter in support of senator Al Franken. The senator and SNL alum was accused of alleged sexual harassment and groping by radio host…
Read moreOn Wednesday morning, family, friends, and other supporters gathered at the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville, Virginia, to mourn Heather Heyer, the woman who was killed on Saturday after a car plowed into a group of people who had gathered to protest a white supremacist rally. As those who knew Heyer best gathered to grieve her…
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