Last week, I was fortunate to be able to attend the New York Times’ and Tina Brown’s conference, Women In The World. It was an amazing three days; I felt I was in college again, being educated about issues and global problems, new ways of thinking, and unique perspectives from people all over the world. There were celebrities, but that was like icing on the cake. Read more
Women Deliver is an amazing non-profit organization that is all about helping women and girls. They are having their third conference in Malaysia this year and I was invited to curate an exhibit and book of international cartoons about women’s rights. Here is a link to a slide show of the cartoons and my essay about them and the conference.
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Two weeks ago, I was fortunate to speak at a TEDx in the Bay Area of California, called TEDxBayAreaWomen (TEDxBAW). The conference was a day long gathering of men and women who spoke about the International Entrepreneurship of women, and I learned a lot about business and micro-finance and global trade. It was fascinating. I chose to speak about something that all women have in common: our bodies. As a cartoonist, I deal in bodies, and my thinking was that no one else at the conference would speak about this in the way I chose to. My talk begins humorously, personally, but then I take the audience into the more serious subject of freedom for women’s bodies. We may be doing amazing things around the world–and women are–but many of us are not able to truly be ourselves or truly succeed because of restrictions on our physical presence. I discuss the appropriation of our bodies by culture, but also the violence against our bodies. I hope you enjoy.
