Welcome to Feminist.com
By Marianne Schnall, Founder &
Executive Director
“A central hub for leading feminist thought-leaders”
Feminist.com was founded in 1995, as a few women and I gathered around the kitchen table in my New York City apartment. The web was pretty new back then, and we wanted to tap into its amazing power to offer people around the world access to information about human rights, women’s issues, health, anti-violence resources, grassroots activism, women’s businesses, and pretty much anything that could possibly support a world where men and women are allied, empowered and equal.
We Are Each Other’s Role Models
By Suzanne Braun Levine,
@Feminist.com
My new Column at Feminist.com – Navigating Second Adulthood – will look at the many challenges raised by the question: “What Will I Do with the Rest of My Life?” The answers are different for every woman, but they all reflect new opportunities for self-discovery, intimacy, and activism.
The first column in the Ongoing Series – “We are Each Other’s Role Models” – is an excerpt from How We Love Now: Sex and the New Intimacy in Second Adulthood:
Special NYC/TTN Event with
Suzanne Braun Levine, Feb. 16
NYC/The Transition Network
Reinventing Love in Second
Adulthood
Join The New York City Chapter of The Transition Network for an evening with Suzanne Braun Levine sharing her groundbreaking, funny, poignant stories, interviews and research on the many ways women are finding love, and redefining their relationships in Second Adulthood.”
Cyma’s Pick’s: The Newly-released
“How We Love Now”
By Cyma Shapiro, founder
MotheringintheMiddle.com
“You’re Not Who You were Only Older,”
Suzanne Braun Levine
I haven’t written a book review for Mothering, yet, since I believe our readers are a widely diverse group of women representing many ages, interests and ideologies. So, when I received How We Love Now, I wasn’t sure what I would do with it, other than read it.
What We Left Behind: Girdles, Silence and Illegal Abortion
By Suzanne Braun Levine,
Huff/Post50
When I went to work at Ms. in 1972, I wore a matching pink skirt and blouse — and a girdle. I had just gotten married and was, therefore, not able to get a bank loan without my husband’s approval. I had given up playing basketball (half-court for girls) in college because no coach or court could be found. And I had had an illegal abortion.
“We’re Looking for America’s Best
Intergenerational Communities!”
By Suzanne Braun Levine
It seems self-evident that generations can reinforce each other – by sharing the stories of their lives, by working together, and by living together in communities that are responsive to the needs of citizens of all ages. But those communities are too few and far between.
Good-Bye Self-Improvement, I Am
Letting Go
By Suzanne Braun Levine,
Huff/Post50
My new book How We Love Now is out this week.
The date was chosen because in publishing January is “self-improvement month.” The thinking is that at the start of the New Year we want to repent for all the guilty pleasures we indulged in over the holidays. Which is also why we make resolutions — to become better than we are. Oy, the guilt.
HOW WE LOVE NOW – AND
HOW I LOVED DECEMBER, 2011
By Suzanne Braun Levine
This has been quite a month!
First of all, I finally held in my hands a copy of my new book How We Love Now; it has been eighteen months since I finished it, and at last it is real. The scary part is that it will soon be in the hands of actual readers, and while I am anxious to hear if it resonates with other women, I am less anxious to hear if it doesn’t, which will undoubtedly happen.
TEDxWomen – A Historic Global Community!
Watch the Videos Here!
www.tedxwomen.org
The TEDxWomen event – Resilience, Relationships, ReBirth, ReImagine – on December 1, 2011 was the FIRST bicoastal, global TEDx event in history!
I was thrilled to be a part of this energizing, awe-inspiring day.
THE PURPOSE PRIZE
MEET THE 2011 WINNERS!
By Suzanne Braun Levine,
Civic Ventures Board Member
I joined the Board of Civic Ventures in 2009, and one of the most inspiring elements of their mission is the discovery and celebration of outstanding social entrepreneurs in the Encore stage of life. The winners of the Purpose Prize have been selected from hundreds of nominees, and having had the honor of being one of the judges, I can tell you that the choices were tough to make; there were many resourceful and courageous candidates for this year’s prizes.