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Reverend Dawn Riley Duval speaks at our No on Amendment 62 Rally, August 31st, 2010. She was so empowering! Watch the video and then come out and help us defeat 62!

In part 1, feminist blogger Renina Jarmon shares with you stories about perception and femininity from her youth. See more of her thoughts at www.thenewmodelminority.com

Our CEO, Vicki Cowart, speaks on the dangers of Amendment 62 at the rally on the west steps of the Capitol on August 31st, 2010.

In this episode of In Your Face (IYF), Mark and Chris offer critical analysis of Representative Karen Thomas while she appears to cry PMS-laden tears of irrationality and tries to pass herself off as a serious candidate for U.S. Senate. Meanwhile, In Your Face commentator Jane Brestow subliminally urges viewers to visit www.NameItChangeIt.org to help hold misogynists like Mark and Chris accountable for their sexist behavior. The content of the "In Your Face" video and the views expressed in it are solely the creative property of Women's Campaign Forum and Women's Media Center, and in no way represents the views of our funders, partners, or affiliates.

Learn more: http://www.iwhc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=187&Itemid=98 TRANSCRIPT TEXT: Grupo Curumim is an organization based in Recife, Brazil that encourages women, young people, and adolescents to become active and engaged in their communities. Curumim's Programa Cunhatã provides leadership training for youth ages 13 to 15, with an emphasis on sexual and reproductive health and rights. Meet Leo and Claudia from Grupo Curumim... LEO: Well, my name is Leo—Leandro—but people call me Leo for short. I prefer Leo. For more or less seven years now, I have been part of Grupo Curumim. In fact, I started in their training. I participated in all the training in the youth program, Cunhatã, where people discuss controversial issues regarding awareness on topics such as women's rights, violence against women, gender relations, sexual and reproductive rights, and youth public policies for about one year. After a year of training I was invited to participate on the Curumim team. In fact, the young people from Cunhatã came up with the idea of maintaining a core group to continue our activities. And those who were interested formed such a group and asked Curumim if we could continue to meet and discuss issues. The program agreed and said we could. So through this, we also started to do work for Curumim. It was great. We gave presentations; we traveled in the Northeast with Latin American youth networks, working at the municipal, state, and national levels. So we worked in a variety of areas. CLAUDIA: My name is Claudia, I am 21 years old. I have been part of Cunhatã since I was 14. It was very important in my life because I became much stronger on these issues, on sexual rights, reproductive rights, knowledge of my own body, and also for tackling the issue of violence against women, because I didn't understand at the time why it happened, how it happened. I grew up in an environment where I saw my mother being beaten by my father, and I thought that was normal, because our neighbor also was—all the women I knew were, so I thought that when I grew up I would be too. Cunhatã showed me that violence against women was a crime and that no woman deserves such violence. So what I fight for now is to protect women's rights.

An investigative documentary, by award-winning filmmaker Simone Bitton, about the controversial life and death of peace activist Rachel Corrie. RACHEL is a startlingly rigorous, fascinating and deeply moving investigatory documentary that examines the death of peace activist and International Solidarity Movement (ISM) member Rachel Corrie, who was crushed by an Israeli army bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003. A few weeks after her little-reported death, an inquiry by Israeli military police concluded that Corrie died in an accident. Simone Bitton (WALL), an award-winning documentary filmmaker who is a citizen of both France and Israel, has crafted a dispassionate but devastating essay investigating the circumstances of Rachel Corrie's death—including astounding eyewitness testimony from activists, soldiers, Israeli Defense Force army spokespersons and physicians, as well as insights from Corrie's parents, mentors and diaries.

Internationally acclaimed director Kim Longinotto's PINK SARIS is an unflinching and often amusing look at the all-woman vigilante Gulabi Gang in Northern India and their charismatic leader, Sampat Pal, who acts as judge and jury for girls and women who are being abused by outlawed patriarchal traditions and the caste system. "A girl's life is cruel...A woman's life is very cruel," notes Sampat Pal, the complex protagonist at the center of PINK SARIS, internationally acclaimed director Kim Longinotto's latest foray into the lives of extraordinary women (SISTERS IN LAW, DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE, ROUGH AUNTIES). Sampat should know -- like many others she was married as a young girl into a family which made her work hard and beat her often. But unusually, she fought back, leaving her in-laws and eventually becoming famous as a champion for beleaguered women throughout Uttar Pradesh, many of whom find their way to her doorstep.

In this episode of In Your Face (IYF), Mark and Chris offer critical analysis of Representative Karen Thomas while she appears to cry PMS-laden tears of irrationality and tries to pass herself off as a serious candidate for U.S. Senate. Meanwhile, In Your Face commentator Jane Brestow subliminally urges viewers to visit www.NameItChangeIt.org to help hold misogynists like Mark and Chris accountable for their sexist behavior.

Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, explains why it's important to lift the ban on military women's ability to use their own money for abortion care at overseas military facilities.

HEY - are you read for pro-football season? Have the 49ers finally hit
their stride, or will Peyton Manning and the Colts take it all this
year? Well, if you're behind the ball, sports experts/drag-queens
Morgan McMichaels and Raven from RuPaul's Drag U join Bryan Safi to
tell you everything you need to know, girl.

That's Gay is a recurring segment on the weekly television show infoMania. In each episode of That's Gay, Bryan Safi explores gay issues and stereotypes as they are portrayed by the clueless media. For more Bryan visit http://current.com/groups/thats-gay/ and Current TV.

infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://facebook.com/infomania.

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Are you ready for pro-football season? Have the 49ers finally hit their stride, or will Peyton Manning and the Colts take it all this year? Well, if you're behind the ball, sports experts/drag-queens Morgan McMichaels and Raven from "RuPaul's Drag U" join infoMania&'s Bryan Safi to tell you everything you need to know, girl.

For more Bryan, tune in Thursday, September 2 at 10/9c for an all-new half-hour "That's Gay" special, "Coming Out in Prime Time."

That's Gay is a recurring segment on the weekly television show infoMania. In each episode of That's Gay, Bryan Safi explores gay issues and stereotypes as they are portrayed by the clueless media. For more Bryan visit http://current.com/groups/thats-gay/ and Current TV.

infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://facebook.com/infomania.

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The Fourth Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights took place in February of 2010 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopa, and was attended by more than 300 advocates, funders and policymakers working on sexuality and reproductive health and rights in Africa and throughout the world. In this video-- the first in a 3-part series-- panelists on a talk show discuss the roots and role of feminism in Africa.

TRANSCRIPT

Priscilla Usiobaifo: If men are the head and I'm the neck, the head rests on my neck. So without my neck, the head can't stay.

TEXT: The International Women's Health Coalition present The Moremi Talk Show, a special panel event held at the 2010 African Federation on Sexual Health and Rights (AFSHR) Conference. Featuring thee African youth leaders: Temitayo Oyedemi of Nigeria, Priscilla Usiobaifo of Nigeria, and Clara Nkewmi of Cameroun. Moderated by Amy Oyekunle of Nigeria.

Episode 1: What Does Feminism Mean to You?

Clara: Feminism? It's just all about justice, equality, respect, and dignity for women.

Amy: What does that mean? We heard that word, break it down for me. We've heard about equality, but there are many men who already doubt, so what does it mean? I mean there are many men that say, "Ok look, women can never be equal, you can't do the same roles, you can't do the same things..."

Clara: But what we're experiencing in our society nowadays is just hierarchy in all societies. But feminism is all about mutuality in the place of hierarchy.

Priscilla: I just see feminism as the politics of equality. And I see it as critically looking at it. And I see feminism from an African perspective maybe because I'm an African. And in most of our societies you can see that patriarchy exists actually it has taken it root there . I see it as a platform by which we are able to address these issues.

Temitayo: I came to realize that HIV has a feminine face.

TEXT: Temitayo is an outspoken advocate for women's health and gender equity. A survivor of sexual violence, she discovered her status several years ago.

In sub-Saharan Africa, 61 percent of adult (ages 15+) living with HIV/AIDS are female.

Amy: Some say that feminism is a Western concept, something that was imported from America, or something that was imported from the moon. Is that true? Is that what you people are holding on to as your feminism? Is that what you are leading our young women in Africa to be like?

Clara: For me, that should not be any area of concern. Because when we look at our societies, feminism has brought about an awful lot of things: equality, cultural... Women can now go to school, we are respected, we have rights to reproductive health, and all that. I think the most productive thing is for us to start thinking about what feminism is, should, and can be for us men and women in Africa.

TEXT: Feminism: what does it mean to you?