The new blog, No Country for Young Women, transcribed my speech at Omega Institute and features it on their home page today. The creator of the blog is the wonderful filmaker Elena Rossini. You can find her work on The Illusionists website and her website.
Here is the link to the transcipt, and a few of my cartoons. I will post the video of the speech soon.
Journalists Pat Mitchell, Helen Thomas, Courtney Martin, me, Chareah Jackson, Jensine Larson.
Women and Power Conference, Omega Institute, Sept 2009
“If you want truth in this country, read the comic strips.” -Helen Thomas
The great icon, Helen Thomas, speaks the truth! She said so many great things on Saturday, in her interview at Omega Institute. She and I were on a panel, Women and the Media. It was an incredible honor to meet her and participate with her. We were interviewed by another amazing person in journalism, Pat Mitchel.
An interesting new news site, called dscriber, invited me to contribute cartoons…or panels or anything, really. I did this a few days ago in response to the hiring of Diane Sawyer as news anchor. I know the media and Hollywood love to create battles, particularly between women, so I drew this cartoon. The sad thing is, the public eats it up, and wants to believe that women hate each other. It’s hogwash, of course, and has to be shot down!
I haven’t posted a cartoon lately on Sotomayor…did this one a while ago when she was nominated. I suppose because so much was being done, I wanted to hold back a bit until the dust settled, then try. Plus, the hearings were boring and predictable. The real news was her nomination and the immediate reaction. May do another soon.
This cartoon, inspired by reading tweets of some very passionate folks over the last few days concerning the Iranian Revolution, is also posted on DoubleX, Slate’s new blog; and my blog on opensalon.com (Editor’s Pick!). I share their concern deeply, but Ihave to make fun of Americans. It’s as if tweeting is involuntary and just sweeping some of us away in directions we are unaware of.
