Women and Empowerment

On Feminist Summer Camp and FIGMENT’s Creative Community

It’s official: summer has arrived. And with it, a sense of newness, creativity and community. Two of my recent articles on The Huffington Post talked about upcoming summer events here in NYC that are completely unrelated, yet touch on the cultural topics of feminism and creativity — topics we cover regularly here on TJCC. The [...]

June 1, 2011 CONTINUE READING →

Book Review: Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion

This is one of those books that, when you see the title, you think you already know what you’re going to read – but you finish the book learning much more than you thought. My guess is that yesterday, today or tomorrow, you made a choice about something. Could be anything – what you ate, [...]

March 30, 2011 CONTINUE READING →

International Women’s Day: Who Will You Honor?

As some of you may know, today, March 8th, is International Women’s Day. There are events happening all over the world – from gatherings and topic-based meet-ups, to educational sessions and in some cases, peaceful protests. It’s a day that’s always been important to me and for many of my friends – we’re Tweeting, posting [...]

March 8, 2011 CONTINUE READING →

Love, Love, Love: Blogs I’m Digging

Like most bloggers, I read a mountain of blogs – not only to keep up with the latest on technology, SEO tips and content creation ideas, but also to discover – and in many cases, build relationships, with the other amazing bloggers out there spreading useful and creative messages. Every few months, I make sure [...]

February 12, 2011 CONTINUE READING →

Poll: What Does It Mean To Be A Woman In Your World?

You don’t have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. ~ Jane Galvin Lewis Each time we fill out a form, we are first asked to check a box that says: Male or Female. At the DMV, at appointments, on job applications. On the surface, the question is not meant to judge; it’s simply a way [...]

November 25, 2010 CONTINUE READING →

There’s No End To The Girl Effect

This post is part of a collaboration with The Girl Effect Project. For every comment, I will donate $2 to The Girl Effect. “The Girl Effect is About Girls. And Boys. And Moms and Dads and Villages and Countries.” – Girl Effect Website “Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. [...]

November 18, 2010 CONTINUE READING →

On TEDxEast, Early Mornings and Urban Oyster’s Coolness

These past few weeks have been a true mosaic of events, activities, chance run-ins with cool people, planned run-ins with cooler people. This past week, I met up with the folks from TEDxEast (NYC’s independent version of TED – I also attended the last TEDxEast in May). In the first 5 minutes of meeting people, [...]

November 13, 2010 CONTINUE READING →

Book Review: The American Wife

I’d love to say that The American Wife was recommended or on my ‘to read’ list. Honestly, though, I was at O’Hare on my way to Grand Cayman last year and realized I left my books home. So, I picked it up at the airport bookstore since it was recommended to me by many avid [...]

August 25, 2010 CONTINUE READING →