Women in Saudi Arabia do not have the freedom to drive, and many American women just don't understand what that means.
Tag: feminism
New Perspective on The Nightly News
I am very excited about the new pairing of Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill as co-anchors on the PBS NewsHour–they will provide us with a wonderful new perspective. But I have some thoughts as to how groundbreaking it really is. Read my Forbes column for more!
It’s About The Little Things
This cartoon speaks to an issue close to home. In my younger days, I used to get this all the time, and I hated it! You can read more about it my post on Forbes.com.
Wendy Davis, Rick Perry and Shoes
What a busy week! Something for (almost) everyone. Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Gay Marriage Rights, Immigration Rights and Abortion Rights. It’s hard to know what to focus on as a cartoonist. I could cartoon all of them, but actually I can’t. So I chose to draw about the amazing filibuster by Senator Wendy Davis and her colleagues (and the crowd!) in Texas, which I found fascinating. Sadly, it won’t stick: Governor Rick Perry has scheduled another session and the bill to virtually end a woman’s right to chose in Texas will pass. Here is my take on my column on Forbes.com–with a slightly different cartoon.
Angelina Jolie and Audre Lorde and The Body As Symbol
Yesterday, the top news in the morning was Angelina Jolie’s breast surgery. I wrote about it on my Forbes column. My thoughts were inspired in part by a book I read several years ago, Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde. In the book, she explores the choice women have of breast prothesis. Written in the 1980s, Lorde was one of the first feminists to write about how breast prothesis “seems like a cover-up in a society where women are solely judged on their looks.” (Wikipedia)
Facebook CEO, Sheryl Sandberg’s New Book, “Lean In”
Sheryl Sandberg is the CEO of Facebook, and she has been in the news a lot lately. Primarily because she wrote a book about business and women and why there are not more women at the top of companies (or countries). “Lean In” is part memoir, part advice book, and I enjoyed it. She doesn’t discuss humor, but she does mention Nora Ephron, thankfully! Read my full piece on my Forbes column