In 2006, a handful of enthusiastic editors began a collaboration that would ultimately become The WIP. On our first day online, March 7, 2007, I posted my first editorial outlining our vision for The WIP. I imagined “a news website…
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More Women Directors “Good for Everyone”
by Kate Daniels, The WIP Director Last July, The WIP published #WomenCallAction: Illuminating the Relevance of Women Directing U.S. Media followed by a Twitter Chat with Rachel Feldman, author of the article, and Melissa Silverstein, founder and editor of the…
Tagged with: Arts & Culture, Feminism, Film & Documentaries, gender equality, Women Directors
Posted in Politics, The WIP Editorial
Posted in Politics, The WIP Editorial
Remembering Our Mother: One Family’s Fight Against Domestic Violence
by Kimberly Amador, The WIP’s Associate Editor Saturday June 14th, 2014 was a beautiful, sunny day in my hometown in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Northern California. At just after ten in the morning, my brother, my…
Tagged with: Domestic Abuse, Family, Violence Against Women, women's empowerment
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, The WIP Editorial, The World
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, The WIP Editorial, The World
The WIP and MIIS: A Partnership for Change
by Katharine Daniels –The WIP Director– This winter I read Saru Jayaraman’s Behind the Kitchen Door. Part investigative journalism, part narrative, Jayaraman exposes the discriminatory, exploitative and often unsanitary labor conditions in one of the largest and fastest growing sectors…
Netroots Nation: Organized People Defeating Organized Money
by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor, The WIP I just returned from San Jose, California after covering the eighth annual Netroots Nation. In 2006 I attended the first Netroots Nation, then called the YearlyKos. My progressive partner in crime was my…
Heroin Addiction: One Family’s Misadventure
by Cassandra Stedham –USA– Addiction. What thoughts and images does this word evoke? Sunken eyes, pallid complexion, grinding teeth, fingernails gnawed down to the quick? The bland uniformity of a hospital waiting room? Spoons, flames, lines, tinfoil, smoke, needles. Junkies…
Tagged with: Addiction, Drugs, Family, Heroin, Recovery
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, The WIP Editorial
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, The WIP Editorial
The Courage to Create Social Change
by Katharine Daniels, Executive Editor One light amongst the darkness of the tragedy that befell Newtown, Connecticut and this nation last week is the collective outrage that persists. In daily conversations with friends and family, throughout the social media, and…
Tagged with: Gun Violence, Media, Social Change, The WIP, women's empowerment
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, The WIP Editorial
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, The WIP Editorial
Zubeida Mustafa: Visionary, Pioneer, and Trailblazer for Women in Leadership
by Katharine Daniels, Executive Editor Post last week’s gains for women in the United States Senate and record numbers of women running for seats in Congress this election cycle, the country and the US media has been aflutter with insight…
Tagged with: Journalism, Media, Pakistan, Social Issues, Women in Leadership, women's empowerment
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, The WIP Editorial, The World
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, The WIP Editorial, The World
When Breast Implants Are Ticking Time Bombs: The PIP Scandal
by Aralena Malone-Leroy –France– In late December 2011, while most Europeans were doing last-minute holiday shopping and preparing for gargantuan meals and family festivities, hundreds of thousands of women spent achingly sleepless nights, worried that their breast implants might be…
Tagged with: France, Healthcare, Science, The Beauty Myth
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, The WIP Editorial
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, The WIP Editorial
Occupy the Media: The Women’s International Perspective in 2012
by Katharine Daniels, Executive Editor 2011 was a remarkable year. People no longer conceded to sit idly while unjust economic policies and governments denied them prosperous futures. Around the world citizens began to occupy the establishment. At these global protests…
Tagged with: Empowerment of Women, human rights, Media, Social Change, The WIP, Women's Rights
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, The WIP Editorial
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, The WIP Editorial
