Sat. 09/14 12P
Media-Ready Feminism
On this week鈥檚 51%, we hit the books. University of Virginia Professor Andrea Press explains how today鈥檚 media can better represent women in her book, "Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: How U.S. Audiences Create Meaning Across Platforms." And Dr. Sharon Ufberg speaks with Take the Lead鈥檚 Gloria Feldt about her latest title, "Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for Everyone鈥檚 Good."
Dowry Deaths in India: A Continuing Tragedy
Multi-voice discussion about the history and current practice of dowry and mahar in India today. India still loses thousands of women every year to so-called dowry deaths.
The Art of Healing: Finding Strength Through Frida Kahlo
We take a look at one of the most prolific Mexican artists, Frida Kahlo, and how she inspired the Latina artist collective 鈥淭he Phoenix Fridas.鈥�
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation
Caste鈥攐ne of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world鈥攊s thriving. Despite the ban on Untouchability 70 years ago, caste impacts 1.9 billion people in the world. Every 15 minutes, a crime is perpetrated against a Dalit person. The average age of death for Dalit women is just 39. And the wreckages of caste are replicated here in the U.S., too鈥攅rupting online with rape and death threats, showing up at work, and forcing countless Dalits to live in fear of being outed.