Last week, as the Senate prepared to vote on the Blunt amendment to limit insurance coverage for contraception, a coalition of more than 50 women’s organizations held a press conference at the National Press Club to announce an unprecedented drive to mobilize women voters — on the ground and online — around health and economic [...]
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Call to Action: Stop Rush
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged AAUW, birth control, Lisa Maatz, politics, Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke, StopRush, Washington D.C., women's rights on March 5, 2012, | 41 Comments »
Two weeks ago, AAUW hosted Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke at our national office for a Re:Action panel discussion on birth control. It was our way of making sure that she had a platform to speak and be heard since she wasn’t allowed to testify at a recent hearing about contraception at the House [...]
Amplifying Women’s Voices in Art and Politics
Posted in Equity in the News, The AAUW Community, Women's History, tagged AAUW, art, Clara Peeters, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Stephen Ayers, Washington D.C., Wilhelmina Holladay on March 2, 2012, | 1 Comment »
Clara Peeters’ art looks so real that it’s almost touchable. Her paintings are full of feasts to be eaten, flowers to be smelled, and cats to be petted. In the 1960s, Wilhelmina Holladay and her husband — both art enthusiasts — were drawn to Peeters’ meticulous still-life paintings. The Holladays were disappointed to find that [...]
Behind the Scenes at the White House
Posted in Student Advisory Council, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Andrea Turk, leadership, politics, SAC, Student Advisory Council, Washington D.C., White House on March 2, 2012, | 1 Comment »
Last summer, National Student Advisory Council member Odunola “Ola” Ojewumi was an intern at the White House, where she hosted a briefing on the importance of youth mentorship in low-income communities. Last month, Ojewumi spoke with the White House’s Andrea Turk about how she became the director of services at the president’s house. What does [...]
Vote Now for AAUW’s White House Hopeful
Posted in AAUW in the News, Educational Programs, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Campus Champions of Change Challenge, DOTB, Dream Outside the Box, education, Kam Phillips, leadership, Washington D.C., White House on March 1, 2012, | 1 Comment »
Ever wish that you could send an AAUW student affiliate member to the White House? Well, you now can. Kam Phillips, who is a senior at the University of Missouri (an AAUW college/university partner member!) has a chance to meet the president at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. and share her organization, Dream outside the Box, with [...]
AAUW-Sponsored Exhibit Debuts at Newseum
Posted in The AAUW Community, Voter Education, tagged AAUW, Election, Every Four Years, Every Four Years: Presidential Campaigns and the Press", Newseum, politics, Washington D.C. on February 29, 2012, | 1 Comment »
Last week, AAUW joined the Newseum to celebrate a brand new exhibit that explores the “story behind the story” of presidential elections past. The exhibit, “Every Four Years: Presidential Campaigns and the Press,” is an American history book come to life. From the Sarah Palin costume that Tina Fey wore on Saturday Night Live in [...]
Should We Get Rid of Black History Month?
Posted in Black History Month, The AAUW Community, Women's History, tagged AAUW, Black History Month, More than a Month, National Women's History Museum, Shukree Hassan Tilghman, Washington D.C. on February 27, 2012, | 3 Comments »
That question is the premise of More than a Month, a new documentary that premiered, ironically, during Black History Month. African American filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman takes a sometimes tongue-in-cheek but ultimately serious look at a controversial question about the ongoing necessity for a seemingly isolated celebration of black accomplishments. Tilghman toured the country in [...]
Black Women and Art: 30 Americans and the Black List
Posted in Black History Month, The AAUW Community, tagged 30 Americans, AAUW, art, Art Week, Carrie Mae Weems, Corcoran Gallery of Art, iona rozeal brown, Kara Walker, Shinque Smith, The Black List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield Sanders, Wangechi Mutu, Washington D.C., Xaviera Simmons on February 27, 2012, | 2 Comments »
Black women have been showcased in many ways during Black History Month, particularly through art. I recently visited several such exhibits in the Washington, D.C., area with my 10-year-old daughter, who is an aspiring artist. Each collection was unique — they highlighted black women as both artists and subjects and spanned many forms of painting, [...]
On Contraception, AAUW Makes Sure Women Will Be Heard
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Voter Education, Women's Health, tagged #wmnreact, AAUW, Ann Gerhart, Catholics for Choice, congress, Lisa Maatz, politics, Sandra Fluke, Sara Hutchinson, Washington D.C., Washington Post on February 24, 2012, | 22 Comments »
It’s been hard to turn on the news over the past few weeks without hearing the debate over women’s access to contraception. This debate was further inflamed by last week’s House of Representatives hearing on birth control that featured five men and no women on its opening panel. Sandra Fluke, a law student at Georgetown [...]
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