Call Your Girlfriend (podcast)
''Call Your Girlfriend'' is a conversation and interview-style podcast co-hosted by journalist Ann Friedman and digital strategist Aminatou Sou, two friends living on opposite coasts of the US. The podcast was described as a cultural phenomenon where the hosts discussed feminism, politics and pop culture, ranging from the very serious ( police abolition or abortion rights) to reality TV (Kardashians and ''Love is Blind''). Started in 2014, the show became popular long before the media form of podcasting grew to its current scale and mainstream interest. In 2017 alone, the podcast had 6.1 million downloads and a live tour with sold out shows in New York, Washington, San Francisco and Boston. The co-hosts also co-wrote a book, ''Big Friendship,'' published in 2020. The podcast posted its final episode on February 10, 2022. About Friedman and Sow started the podcast at the behest of their mutual friend Gina Delvac, after Friedman moved across the country to the opposite coast ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ann Friedman
Ann Friedman is an American magazine editor, journalist, podcaster, and pie chart artist. She writes about gender, politics, and social issues. She co-hosted the podcast ''Call Your Girlfriend,'' sends out a weekly email newsletter called ''The Ann Friedman Weekly,'' and is a contributing editor for '' The Gentlewoman''. Previously, she was deputy editor for ''The American Prospect'', executive editor at the Los Angeles-based ''GOOD'' magazine, and a co-founder of the employee-driven, crowd-sourced spin-off ''Tomorrow'' magazine. Personal background Ann Friedman's hometown is Dubuque, Iowa. She began her journalism career there as an intern with the ''Telegraph Herald'' in 2001. She is an alumna of the University of Missouri, where she graduated from its School of Journalism in 2004. Friedman lived in New York City for over a year. Friedman also lived in Washington, DC, where she met friend and co-podcast host Aminatou Sow. Los Angeles is her permanent residence. She identifies ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sex Workers' Rights
Sex workers' rights encompass a variety of aims being pursued globally by individuals and organizations that specifically involve the human, health, and labor rights of sex workers and their clients. The goals of these movements are diverse, but generally aim to legalize or decriminalize sex work, as well as to destigmatize it, regulate it and ensure fair treatment before legal and cultural forces on a local and international level for all persons in the sex industry. The term ''sex work'' refers primarily to prostitution, but also encompasses adult video performers, phone sex operators, webcam models, dancers in strip clubs, and others who provide sexually-related services. Some extend the use of the term to include "support personnel" such as managers, agents, videographers, club bouncers, and others. The debate over sex work is often characterized as an issue of ''women's'' rights, especially by those who argue that prostitution is inherently oppressive and seek to crimina ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cleo Wade
Cleo Wade (born September 13, 1989) is an American artist, poet, activist, and author. Early life Wade grew up in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, to a white mother, Lori Rockett, and black father, Bernardo Wade. At age 6, she "fell in love with writing" after taking a poetry course over the summer. She attended St. Mary's Dominican High School. After graduating from high school, she decided to pursue fashion and moved to New York City to intern at Missoni. While in the city, she consulted for Alice + Olivia, modeled for Cartier and Armani, and worked as an office manager at Halston. Looking back on this period of her life, Wade reflects: "I was making money for the first time in my life, but I realized I wasn't happy. Nobody tells you what to do when your girlhood dreams bump into your womanhood dreams." She decided to travel the world and soon fell back into painting and poetry. Career Cleo has been featured in ''Harper's Bazaar,'' ''Elle'', ''People'' maga ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tara Houska Zhaabowekwe
Tara Houska Zhaabowekwe (Couchiching First Nation) is a tribal attorney, land defender and climate justice activist. Activism Not Your Mascots She co-founded Not Your Mascots, an organization and social media campaign that educates the public about stereotyping and representation of Native Americans, including work on getting the Washington football team to change their name. Pipeline protests Houska founded and runs the Giniw Collective. She and others from the collective fought for seven years against construction of the Line 3 pipeline, an oil pipeline running from Alberta, Canada to Wisconsin, USA. Three of those years she spent living in a tent on the pipeline's route, including during harsh winters. The tribal nations in the area maintain the treaty rights to hunt, fish, and gather on land along the pipeline, which crosses many bodies of water. The area is also where tribal nations grow wild rice, which has cultural and historic importance to the nations. The Gini ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Adrienne Maree Brown
Adrienne Maree Brown, often styled adrienne maree brown (born September 6, 1978), is a writer, activist and facilitator. From 2006 to 2010, she was the executive director of the Ruckus Society. She also co-founded and directed the United States League of Young Voters. She describes her thought as postnationalism, and others have described it as Black feminism or womanism. She also supports, among others, the Black Lives Matter and prison abolition movements. Much of her work as a writer is based on the writings of science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler. Her first book, '' Emergent Strategy,'' was published in 2017. Other books include ''Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good'', published in 2019, and ''We Will Not Cancel Us'', published in 2020. Brown also runs podcasts and has released a music project. Additionally, she works as a doula. Life and activism Early life Brown was born on September 6, 1978, in El Paso, Texas, to a mixed-race couple who met at Cle ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anita Hill
Anita Faye Hill (born July 30, 1956) is an American lawyer, educator and author. She is a professor of social policy, law, and women's studies at Brandeis University and a faculty member of the university's Heller School for Social Policy and Management. She became a national figure in 1991 when she accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, her supervisor at the United States Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, of sexual harassment. Early life and education Anita Hill was born to a family of farmers in Lone Tree, Oklahoma, the youngest of Albert and Erma Hill's 13 children. Her family came from Arkansas, where her maternal grandfather Henry Eliot and all of her great-grandparents had been born into slavery. Hill was raised in the Baptist faith. Hill graduated from Morris High School, Oklahoma in 1973, where she was class valedictorian. After high school, she enrolled at Oklahoma State University and received a bachelo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Huma Abedin
Huma Mahmood Abedin ( ur, ; born July 28, 1975) is an American political staffer who was vice chair of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign for President of the United States. Before that, Abedin was deputy chief of staff to Clinton when she was U.S. Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013. She was also the traveling chief of staff and former assistant to Clinton during her 2008 presidential campaign for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election. During Hillary Clinton's tenure at the State Department and her presidential campaign, Abedin became one of Clinton's closest aides. Her high-profile political career has caused her personal life to come under public scrutiny over the years, particularly her marriage to former congressman Anthony Weiner. Early life Abedin was born on July 28, 1975, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to two professors. Abedin is of Indian and Pakistani descent. She has a sister and a brother. When Abedin was two years old, her parents were offer ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kamala Harris
Kamala Devi Harris ( ; born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th vice president of the United States. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African American and first Asian American vice president. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017 and as a United States senator representing California from 2017 to 2021. Born in Oakland, California, Harris graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, before being recruited to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and later the City Attorney of San Francisco's office. In 2003, she was elected district attorney of San Francisco. She was elected Attorney General of California in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. Harris served as ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Samantha Power
Samantha Jane Power (born September 21, 1970) is an American journalist, diplomat and government official who is currently serving as the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development. She previously served as the 28th United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017. Power is a member of the Democratic Party. Power began her career as a war correspondent covering the Yugoslav Wars before entering academic administration. In 1998, she became the Founding Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, where she later served as the first Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy until 2009. She was a senior adviser to Senator Barack Obama until March 2008, when she resigned from his presidential campaign after apologizing for referring to then-Senator Hillary Clinton as "a monster" during an interview, thinking she was off the record. Power joined the Obama State De ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pramila Jayapal
Pramila Jayapal ( ; born September 21, 1965) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she represents most of Seattle, as well as some suburban areas of King County. Jayapal represented the 37th legislative district in the Washington State Senate from 2015 to 2017. She is the first Indian-American woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. The district's first female member of Congress, she is also the first Asian American to represent Washington at the federal level. Before entering electoral politics, Jayapal was a Seattle-based civil rights activist, serving until 2012 as the executive director of OneAmerica, a pro-immigrant advocacy group. She founded the organization, originally called Hate Free Zone, after the September 11 attacks. Jayapal co-chaired the Congressional Progressive Caucus from 2019 to 2021, henceforth serving as chair. She serves on both the Judiciary Committee and Budget Co ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Design Matters
''Design Matters'' is a podcast founded and hosted by American writer, educator, artist, and designer Debbie Millman. Founded in 2005, ''Design Matters'' is considered "the first and longest running podcast about design". It is now hosted on Design Observer, which is published in partnership with AIGA. Debbie Millman has interviewed over 250 guests including Amanda Palmer, Chris Ware, Malcolm Gladwell, Massimo Vignelli, Steven Heller, Marian Bantjes, Tina Roth Eisenberg, Alain de Botton, Alison Bechdel, and Stefan Sagmeister. ''Design Matters'' won a Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in 2011 and was named one of iTunes Best Podcasts of 2015.The podcast has also been on top of the charts by a number mainstream media publications, such as Business Insider, HGTV, Architectural Digestand was recognized as a '' Webby Honoree'' in 2018. Format ''Design Matters'' is hosted by Debbie Millman and features personable, in-depth conversational interviews with "industry-le ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Shine Theory
Shine may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Shine'' (film), a 1996 Australian film based on the life of David Helfgott, a pianist * Shine, a fictional character in the American animated TV series ''Shimmer and Shine'' Literature * ''Shine'' (Myracle novel), a 2011 novel by Lauren Myracle * ''Shine'', a 2013 novel by Candy Gourlay * ''Shine'' (Jung novel), a 2020 novel by Jessica Jung Music * Shine!, a musical based on the works of Horatio Alger Bands * Shine (Hong Kong group), a Hong Kong Cantopop duo * Shine (Scottish band), folk trio of Alyth McCormack, Corinna Hewat and Mary Macmaster Albums * ''Shine'' (Trey Anastasio album), 2005 * ''Shine'', by Average White Band, 1980 * ''Shine'', by Sarah Bettens, 2007 * ''Shine'' (Mary Black album), 1997 * ''Shine'' (Bond album), 2002 * ''Shine'' (Meredith Brooks album), 2004 * ''Shine'' (compilation series), released by Polygram from 1995 to 1998 * ''Shine'' (Crime & the City Solution album), 1988 * '' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |