Gloria Steinem

Ava DuVernay in Dear . . .

Review: Dear . . . is short bios about influence

Dear . . . is an interesting way to talk about lives and the influence they have on others. Two seasons of short films are featured. People talk about their lives and then read letters from people they have inspired […]

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Janelle Monáe, Monica Sanchez, and Alicia Vikander in The Glorias

Review: The Glorias

The Glorias is a biopic looking at Gloria Steinem’s life through her travels and at various stages in her life. Julie Taymor wrote and directed the film, which takes 2 hours and 20 minutes to wind its way through Steinem’s

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Women in the cast of Mrs. America

Review: Mrs. America, episodes 1-3

Mrs. America is the history of the struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the 1970s. The first 3 episodes dropped as a bunch on April 15, with the remaining episodes coming on Wednesdays until all 9 episodes have

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A manifesto

A Personal Manifesto

A couple of decades ago I realized everything in my life up to that point had been determined by men. I can hear my friend Denise shouting, “It’s the patriarchy, stupid!” That’s not it – at least not completely. The

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Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall, Bella Heathcote in Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

Review: Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is more than anything a sweet, if unconventional, love story. A love story that lead to the creation of one of the world’s most famous and beloved female superheroes. Professor Marston and the Wonder

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Anna Camp, Genevieve Angelson, and Erin Darke in Good Girls Revolt

Review: Good Girls Revolt, season 1

Good Girls Revolt is an Amazon Prime production about the women’s movement in the late 1960s and early 70s. The story is set in a fictional magazine called “News of the Week,” based on events that took place at “Newsweek

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Gloria Steinem photo by Virginia DeBolt. All rights reserved

Gloria Steinem on “Chick Flicks”

Gloria Steinem blogs about books at Open Roads Media. The blog is called “Reading our way to the Revolution.” The once monthly column looks at a timeless and timely book.  Her latest review is about The Group, a 1963 novel

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Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs

HBO Discovers Women: Will I Have to Subscribe?

HBO is coming out with a new app for Apple TV, iPad and iPhone called HBO Now that subscribes to all the HBO content for $15 a month. I may have to consider using it, because HBO has suddenly discovered

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Melanie Harris, Alice Walker, Gloria Steinem, Chung Hyun Kyung

Wisdom Sharing: A Week with the Goddess Spirit

I spent last week at a conference in Ghost Ranch, NM. The conference, called Wisdom Sharing, featured Alice Walker, Gloria Steinem and Dr. Chung Hyun Kyung. The marvelous moderator, shown on the left above, was Dr. Melanie Harris. The location

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carmen

The L Word Opening Credits (Season Three)

Nothing but the credits recapped here, right up to the moment when we see the director’s name. Then we stop. It’s really all you need to know.

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