 | • Anita Hill: A Moment and a Legacy by Jane Manning
For generation X feminists like me, the Anita Hill - Clarence Thomas Senate hearings were a transformative event. On October 15, a milestone feminist conference marked the 20th anniversary of the hearings and made it clear how transformative Anital Hill's courageous stand against sexual harassment was for the feminist movement. |
 | • Bishops Aim to Take Away Your Birth Control Staff Report
Get an inside look at the powerful role that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has assumed in the halls of Congress, helping to write anti-choice and anti-woman legislation and regulate women's health care like never before. |
 | • The Latest Outrages and Victories for Women's Rights Staff Report
Get the lowdown on Facebook's refusal to remove pro-rape group pages, the Cain campaign sexual harassment scandal, and local victories in fighting violence against women. |
 | • Letting Women Die? by Maureen Shaw
From the proposed 2012 budget that cuts funding for family planning services to a bill that outright denies women lifesaving abortions, we are in the midst of the biggest uphill battle for reproductive rights in recent history. |
 | • NOW-NYC Volunteer Spotlight: Sangita Baruah by Allison Grossman
A NYC public high school teacher inspired by her work with NOW-NYC, Sangita Baruah wanted to find a way to bring feminism to her students. |
 | • "Rock the Body You've Got" by Brielle Nalence
We sat down with Tiffiny Dixon, NYC's premier empowerment stylist and the founder and CEO of Your MEO Total Body Beauty, for her take on women, body image, and what we can all do to start feeling good about our bodies now. |
 | • Book Review: The Big Enough Company by K.C. Washington
Clean, concise, and to the point, just like a good business plan, The Big Enough Company: Creating a Business that Works for You takes its rightful place on the shelf beside sundry other business books, and it is good enough to be there. Co-founders of In Good Company Adelaide Lancaster and Amy Abrams interview over 100 women business owners to get the best information and advice. |
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 | • NOW-NYC Takes on Media's Mixed Messages by Brielle Nalence
How many times have you passed a billboard that's made you angry or feeling like something's not right? Well NOW-NYC has way for you to turn that anger into action! Not Cool | FIGUREatively Speaking
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 | • Crisis Pregnancy Centers. Really? Really. by Seema Shukla
Crisis Pregnancy Centers often profess to provide unbiased counseling and support to women dealing with unplanned pregnancies - but don't. Get the lowdown. |
 | • Top Feminist Picks for Winter by Brielle Nalence Books and film recommendations sure to make your winter a feminist wonderland! |
 | • Life in the Day of a Feminist...at a Jesuit University by Caroline Egan
This is the life of a feminist at Fordham - a plummeting roller coaster of hair-raising anti-choice propaganda and sexism along with the uphill climbs of finding common ground and building a unique community of feminists.
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 | • Dr. Nawal El-Saadawi, Egypt's Feminist Pioneer
by Samantha Inesta
The Egyptian Center for Women's Rights found that about half of all women suffer regular sexual harassment. One Egyptian woman has spent a lifetime trying to change this.
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 | • NOW-NYC Election to be held on January 19, 2012 Members!
Call for nominations by Monday, December 19th. Members, save the date for our 2012 election: an evening of feminist networking and celebration.
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| | • Your Support of NOW-NYC & The Service Fund Thank You!
The dedicated advocates of NOW-NYC & The Service Fund have accomplished a great deal in 2011 thanks to all of you - our steadfast supporters and irrepressible members and activists. |
