May 2012
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“When someone writes from their experience, there is often someone else, at the...”
– Roxane Gay for The Rumpus
On Motherhood →
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Five More Blogs that Reviewed My Novel
Books Are My Boyfriends
PASS it on OVER!
The Self-Discovery Files Loves BOOKS: Part 3!
Booking Mama Review: These Days Are Ours
Twenty Two and Talking Trends: These Days Are Ours - A Book Review
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Google Doodles Still Erasing Women's History →
Of 48 global Google Doodles honoring birthdays in 2012, 5 have honored women. My birthday is on Friday and, thought I’d very much like a Doodle, I’d also be happy to have Google honor Amelia Earhart (born July 24, 1897), a record setting aviator, Marie Curie (November 7, 1867), a dual Nobel Prize winner and pioneering researcher on radioactivity, or Madam C. J. Walker (December 23,...
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New York Engaged Couples, Get Paid $100 for 45...
Red Antler, a branding agency in Brooklyn, needs market research help with a startup I cofounded!
Here’s the info:
Are you an engaged couple living in the New York area? If so, Red Antler is seeking your help testing a new web-based product in the wedding space. Research will take approximately 45 minutes at our office in Dumbo, and you will receive $100 (per couple) for your time. Both...
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Today's To-Do List: Call Your Representatives... →
I’m calling the five California reps right now.
Is ‘The Princess Mentality’ Undermining Career... →
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Encouraging Stats About Women in Technology →
April 2012
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Photos from the Unite Against the War on Women...
On Saturday, April 28th, 2012, women and men (lots of men) of every age and ethnicity, rallied across the country for women’s equal rights, equal opportunities and equal representation. These are photos from the Los Angeles rally.
UniteWomen.org believes that “All Americans have the right to make decisions about their own bodies, including contraception, without interference from...
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My List of 30 Things Every Woman Should Know by 30 →
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How Mothers & Daughters Can Get Along
This week the Wall Street Journal ran a piece about mothers and daughters who fight well into their adult years. Following is advice on how to improve that relationship:
Tell your mom how you do things. Explain that you will ask for her advice if you need it.
Don’t lie to your mom. It puts distance between you. And she always finds out: She has eyes in the back of her head— remember?...
A Complete Guide to Hipster Racism →
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Five Gender Stereotypes that Used to be the Exact... →
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10 Reasons Why HBO’s Girls Is Such A Good Show
HBO’s Girls is my new favorite show on TV. Here’s why:
1. The women on the show are not too attractive. If I saw these women in a bar I’d do a double take, not because they look like actors, but because they look like people I know. Granted I’m white and not much older than them, but except for model pretty Marnie (Allison Williams), these women look like actual humans. Especially Hannah...
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Rape victims say military labels them 'crazy' →
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“Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men...”
– Ashley Judd
Everyone Hates The Pretty Girl
A British woman named Samantha Brick recently wrote a personal essay titled “Why Women Hate Me for Being Beautiful” in the UK’s Daily Mail. She talks about the free stuff she gets from men who think she’s pretty (champagne, train tickets, flowers, cab fare), as well as the jealousy she incurs from women who are threatened by her (“jealous wives” befriend her, “insecure female bosses” won’t...
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“Perhaps someone should start a Slow Sex movement along the lines of the Slow...”
– Elizabeth Fuller
March 2012
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Katniss Everdeen, I’ve Been Waiting for You
If I had to use one word to describe my experience watching The Hunger Games, it would be relief. I finally got the female protagonist I’ve been waiting for all my life. Neither a sex symbol nor an anti-sex symbol, Katniss is just a normal person who rises to a challenge. She’s brave without being fearless, on her game without being perfect, strong without being a bitch. Granted she’s got an...
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“Learning about sex from porn is like learning about firearms from action movies.”
– AlterNet.org
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Five Bloggers Review My Novel
Signing books at Skylight Books in LA on Wednesday
Book Reporter
Jennifer Brody
School Library Journal
Women’s Lit Book Club
The Compulsive Reader
Tweet me @MichelleHaimoff or comment here if you’re reviewing it and I’ll link to you the next time I post.
Buy the book
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Women are facing sexual McCarthyism →
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NYLON Reviews My Novel →
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SXSW - Blogging: Why So Many Women Are Doing It
I went to a talk with social media expert Alessandra Colaci (Republic of Wow) and professional blogger Indiana Adams (AdoredAustin.com) at SXSW Interactive today. When I first walked into the room I almost walked out. Not only was the audience young but they were holding things like My Little Pony notebooks. I was hoping for a room of edgy, tell-it-like-it-is bloggers but Alessandra and Indiana...
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Your two-second good deed of the day →
Stand up for women’s rights in Afghanistan.
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Five Reasons Not to Get an MFA
I wrote a series of guest blogs for She Writes, the online women’s writing community, about why not to go to grad school for writing. I thought I’d share it with those of you who write:
Reason #1 = Privacy Reason #2 = Perspective Reason #3 = Cost Reason #4 = Timeframe Reason #5 = Pride
As you already may know, my novel “These Days Are Ours” came out a few days ago....
Bansky on Advertising
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most...
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Hello Giggles Reviews My Novel →
Sarah Heyward really nailed what the novel is all about. It would be stellar if you were to comment on their site.
February 2012
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My Novel is Out Today
I wrote a novel called “These Days Are Ours.” It came out today.
The novel is about a group of college graduates living in New York City six months after September 11th. Hailey, the main character, still doesn’t have a job even though college is long over, and she is living in her parents’ apartment. She is obsessed with a guy named Michael Brenner - a Princeton graduate...
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Women and the Oscars
The Women Media Center’s “scorecard” of women nominated for the 84th Annual Academy Awards shows no women nominated for best director, cinematographer or feature documentarian, among other categories, and only one or two nominated for best screenplay, animated feature, foreign language film and film editing, among other categories.
In this Feminist Frequency video Anita...
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“Call me old fashioned, but Chris Brown should be in prison.”
– @JennyJohnsonHi5
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On Comments - Part 2
From a stranger who contacted me on Facebook:
I just received a magazine clipping in the mail from a friend. It was your article about tv sitcoms and the lack of strong female characters. I have no idea what magazine it’s from….but that’s not the reason I’m messaging you. I just wanted to thank you. I read these sitcoms each year dreading that I have to say to my manager...
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Peer Pressure is Keeping Women from Getting... →
Photo from enoughisenoughau.blogspot.com
“Valentine’s Day is a perfect time to reject the idea that the ideal man is...”
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From Stephanie Coontz’s New York Times article, which should be reassuring to smart, successful unmarried women over 30.
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Winter Beauty - Sponsored Post
Thanks to Walgreens for underwriting this post. I was paid as a member of the Clever Girls Collective, but the content is all mine. Visit http://www.discoverbeautywithin.com/
The elusive pocket-sized Vaseline I’ve only ever seen in London
Happy Valentine’s Day! Today I’m writing a sponsored post about winter beauty rituals. This post isn’t supposed to mention high end...
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Why The Internet is Our Greatest Tool for Social... →
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On Comments
I was feeling depressed about the kind of comments my Christian Science Monitor Op-Ed was getting. A lot of women interpreted my push for more career focused female characters on television to be some kind of put down of stay-at-home moms and homemakers. But I would never put down stay-at-home moms and homemakers, I’d just like to see other representations of women on television. Arguably,...
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January 2012
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My Op Ed in The Christian Science Monitor About... →
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Happy 39th Birthday Roe Vs. Wade
It’s Blog for Choice Day 2012.
Reproductive rights are some of the most important rights American women have but the war on women has shown us that they are not guaranteed.
If you haven’t been keeping up, here is a list of ten ways in which Republicans are attacking women.
And here is a simple chart explaining why the right to have an abortion is still so important. Short...
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What's Wrong With "Marrying Down"?
Sady Doyle wrote a great article about the ways in which women journalists writing about feminism, like The Atlantic’s Kate Bolick, still do so from a wealthy, white perspective. They “focus on the ladies’s-magazine variety of female concerns,” she writes, “motherhood, marriage, dating.”
Doyle takes issue with Bolick’s idea that only wealthy women are...
Jessica Valenti: Why The Washington Post's new... →
jessicavalenti:
Here’s the thing: I will always want more women’s (and feminist) voices in the mainstream media, particularly in politics. There’s an overwhelming byline gender gap and that needs to change. But The Washington Post’s new lady blog, “She the People,” is not a step in the right direction….
Feminist Ryan Gosling →