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BlogHer -- the world changed this day

Last night, after closing the 12-hour marathon chatroom session we hosted for BlogHer Conference '05, I send a short email to to woman who had the initial notion to throw such an event, Lisa Stone: You do realize that you've given birth to a monster, don't you? This baby is going to grow grow grow.... Congratulations to you all. I clicked "send," let out a big breath, went downstairs ... and...
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If Women Hold Up Half the Sky, Why Are They Not Heard?

In 1980, China had paid lip service to women by saying "women hold up half the sky." Yet when the United Nations declared the 1980's "The Decade of Women," we wondered if things were any different here versus elsewhere? While men of one nation squared off against men of another nation, the women's stake in the struggle seemed different and even vague. Is a woman whose rights are denied in the...
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I was blogging before blogging was cool

On July 9, 1978, a Women's Suffrage banner that had rarely been seen outside of a museum since the 1920's, once again saw the light day. Old and venerable, the purple and gold colors of the National Women's Party moved down the Capital Mall as over 100,000 of us stepped into herstory. Dressed all in white-the suffragist colors-we marched to peaceably ask for an extension on the ratification of...
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