Blogs
The Real Lives of Punk Rock Girls
- Heather Cassell
- September 8, 2012
Wanna live like a rock star? Think it’s all parties, trashing guitars, and long bus trips with groovy people hanging out and along for the ride? Trash those fantasies and get a real peek inside the life of an emerging punk rock girl band, Hunter Valentine on the “Real L Word”. They tell it straight and play it loud.
Read MorefiveTEN Shows Pride in Oakland
- Heather Cassell
- August 31, 2012
Showing pride in Oakland, two producers kick off Oakland Pride weekend with the launch of fiveTEN, a host of events throughout the weekend, starting today Friday, August 31 and ending with a dance party on Sunday, September 2, that aim to go beyond LGBT Pride celebrating the East Bay city.
Read MoreA First, Saudi Arabia Lets Women Compete in Olympic Games
- Heather Cassell
- July 16, 2012
Bowing to six months of ongoing international pressure, Saudi Arabia made a historic last minute move on July 12 announcing that two women athletes Wujdan Shahrkhani, in judo, and Sarah Attar, in track and field will compete in the 30th Olympic Summer Games in London.
Read MoreGrrrl Rock It!
- Heather Cassell
- July 16, 2012
In the late ‘80s pop was filled with girls, but punk rock was a different world. Still a bastion of maleness, Joan Jett, who straddled punk and rock, was the only girl who pushed through the testosterone to make it.
Read MoreBackstage with Chely Wright
- Heather Cassell
- July 16, 2012
All-American girl Chely Wright shocked the nation when she became the first U.S. country singer to declare her love for women two years ago with her seventh musical release “Lifted Off the Ground” and her confessional memoir Like Me: Confessions Of A Heartland Country Singer.
Read MoreFive Fabulous Years of Fabulosa Fest
- Heather Cassell
- July 16, 2012
Hundreds of women will head to the fifth annual Fabulosa Fest to camp out and frolic in the sun listening to great music, check out crafts and attend workshops, swim in the creek, and maybe even partake in a little mud wrestling at Walker Creek Ranch in Sonoma County, CA on July 20 – 22.
Read MoreU.S. Women Athletes Score at Olympics 2012 before the Games Begin
- Heather Cassell
- July 16, 2012
Sporty girls are making historic milestone that is a testament to the value of supporting women in sports on the 40th year of Title IX. The United States Olympic Committee revealed that for the first time in the 116 year history of the modern Olympic Games American women outnumber the U.S. men heading to London this summer on July 10.
Read MoreGuiding Women: Damron Women’s Traveller 2012
- Heather Cassell
- July 9, 2012
Don’t leave home without it. Damron Women’s Traveller: 2012 Edition Damron Women’s Traveller, the most popular travel guide for queer women, is back with all new and updated listings for 2012. Want to know where to go in Nashville? Damron Women’s Traveller will point you in the right direction. It is the must have guide for queer girls and their friends.
Read MoreBrit’s Americana Summer Adventure
- Heather Cassell
- July 5, 2012
Sowing her Americana oats, Londoner Iris Mansour, made an Americana wish list and hopped onto a plan to the United States for a 60 day summer adventure.
Read MoreTaking the Wheel: Nona Willis Aronowitz Drives to Discover Modern Feminism
- Heather Cassell
- June 30, 2012
Freshly minted college graduates, having brunch and Bloody Mary’s one day in New York City, childhood best friends Emma Bee Bernstein and Nona Willis Aronowitz concocted a plan to get out of their intellectual, liberal, urban bubble to find out what feminism in America means to women in the new millennium.
Read MoreOlivia Looks Good At 40
- Heather Cassell
- June 22, 2012
Lesbian’s gallivanting around the world isn’t a new adventure, but lesbian travel is and while women-only vacations – queer or straight – are still a young industry Olivia Travel paved the road and sailed the wide open seas for women’s travel.
Read MoreGirls on the Road
- Heather Cassell
- June 22, 2012
Women are on the move, but not taking to the streets as they did in early and mid-to late 20th century. The millennium is a new chapter in feminism where the bit battled movement from an ongoing backlash and war on women waged by radical conservatives continues to be elusive and unrecognizable not making it to the women who need it the most.
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