We had many worthy nominations, from Barbara Boxer to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Poet Carol Muske-Dukes now presents a truly diverse and capable team. (Now how to give them the authority they deserve?)

This week, we’re continuing WVFC’s Nine Women to Run the World campaign, first with Monday’s piece about Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Now, our friends at On The Issues Magazine [...]

Many of us remember the day we first ran across Our Bodies, Ourselves, as something of a revelation; perhaps you even picked up the more recent edition of the same [...]

I recently came up with an idea: that it would be revelatory to ask as many women who were willing to “nominate” our next world leaders to choose who, among [...]

(Many observant WVFC readers are already fans of Julia Kay, who first told us of her Daily Portrait Project a year ago and this fall shared vivid memories of many Septembers. [...]

Oh, I do love that liquid silver on her. And then comes Demi Moore in another one of those ruffled, flouncy confections that seem to be on everyone this year. [...]

Chris has an interesting point. Maybe that’s the Academy’s way of solving the “Hurt Locker” vs. “Avatar” tug of war. But somehow I doubt it.
Quite some speech from Mo’Nique there. [...]

The Hurt Locker just won for Best Original Screenplay. Good acceptance speech by Mark Boal. Interesting to notice that Kathryn Bigelow is sitting just in front of James Cameron in [...]

We woke up this morning to hear National Public Radio begin its all-day coverage. Some of us had made our bets on who would win, for our officr pools or [...]

Santa opened the trunk of the Cadillac and removed the presents. I watched him from my bedroom window, looking down through the branches of the big oak tree that was [...]