Sarah Lux-Lee is the founder of Mindr, an organization that connects moms to opportunities to grow, learn, network, and more. In the latest Disruptors column, we asked Sarah to tell us how Mindr is disrupting motherhood. Your organization, Mindr, creates baby-friendly spaces to host events that allow mothers to network,…
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Jennimaria Palomaki
Jennimaria Palomaki is a linguist and writer living in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and dog. You can follow her on Instagram @jenni_around or on Twitter @so_finnished.
Latosha Frink Harrison Wants to Help Mamas Hustle
In the latest Disruptors feature, Milk spoke with Latosha Frink Harrison, founder of Mama Hustle. What’s the inspiration behind your website, mamahustle.com? The inspiration behind Mama Hustle & Co. started with my daughter, Jewel. On a family trip to Great Wolf Lodge, my daughter had played at the…
What #MeToo Doesn't Tell You
Sexual assault and harassment are often talked about as isolated events, incidents with discrete timestamps marking a beginning and an end, a blip on the timeline of a woman’s life. Survivors know that it’s not like that at all, that it is actually something that changes the entire…
The Good American
This piece started out as a book review of What Happened, Hillary Clinton’s memoir of what it was like to be at the center of what I often hear referred to as “the election,” but which is typically meant as a reference to a whole series of events and…
How She Is Changing The Gender Imbalance In Financial Advisors
This Disruptors: These are the women who see the male-dominated status quo and envision a different way. They are the entrepreneurs, innovators, and leaders who are creating new systems, organizations, and narratives. Along the way they are also changing perspectives about what is possible. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports…
Illana Raia Is Disrupting Middle School
These are the women who see the male-dominated status quo and envision a different way. They are the entrepreneurs, innovators, and leaders who are creating new systems, organizations, and narratives. Along the way they are also changing perspectives about what is possible. Illana Raia is one of these women, and…
Mobilize Your Power
Milk is proud to be partnered with Ellevate Network, Sallie Krawcheck’s global network for professional women. This week we were invited to attend Ellevate Network’s first annual Mobilizing the Power of Women Summit. We were blown away by the inspiring speakers, the energy, and, of course, the amazing…
Wonder(fully complicated) Woman
The history of Wonder Woman is, in many ways, as complex as the history of American feminism. At least, that is the impression I was left with after reading Jill Lepore’s book The Secret History of Wonder Woman in preparation for seeing Patty Jenkins’s film, Wonder Woman. The…
Challenging Taboos and Tapping into Intuition through Tarot
When my good friend and Milk contributor, Ashley Thomson , came to visit me, I picked her brain about her tarot practice. Below is a transcript of our conversation. How did you get interested in tarot? The very first tarot deck I ever bought was an impulse buy. I’d always…
The Familiar Division Of Women In The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid’s Tale is set in Gilead, a society created in what used to be New England by a theocratic coup after attacks have eliminated the existing power structure in Washington, D.C. The rest of the country is referred to as “the colonies,” which consists of both farms…
Your new anti-choice, anti-science, and anti-woman HHS
Amidst hazy threats of a government shutdown next September, the revival of the Hydra-like health care bill, confusing (at best) comments about Andrew Jackson and the Civil War, overtures to despotic world leaders, and a "religious liberty" executive order, the appointments of two anti-choice activists to leadership positions in the…
What Mike Pence and Bill O'Reilly Have in Common
Last month’s Washington Post profile of Karen Pence, wife of Vice President Mike Pence, resurrected a comment the VP made to The Hill in 2002 in which he revealed that he does not eat alone with women other than his wife or attend events at which alcohol is served…
Big Little Lies and the Secret World of Women (Some Spoilers)
In high school, I refused to watch the hit TV series The O.C. Based in the titular Orange County, the show follows streetwise teenager Ryan Atwood as he navigates a new life among rich teenagers who look like models. My objection to the series was rooted somewhat in an…
Why Representation Matters
In an effort to consolidate support for the ill-fated American Health Care Act, Mike Pence met with the House Freedom Caucus, a coalition of conservative Republicans, to discuss changes to the bill that was slated to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The meeting precipitated a compromise whereby the new bill…
The Hypocrisy of the AHCA's Planned Parenthood Provision
Since the unveiling of the American Health Care Act, Republicans’ long-promised plan to replace Obamacare, the bill has faced opposition from Democrats, interest groups, doctors’ and nurses’ groups, and even a number of House and Senate Republicans. Criticism of AHCA has been particularly fierce since the Congressional Budget Office released…
In The Body Of A Lucky Woman
I watched on the monitor and winced as the doctor probed deeper into the cavity past my cervix. I was surprised by the color, or rather, the lack of it. Before the procedure, I had thought everything would be a salmon pink—like the uterus in Look Who’s Talking…
Emma Watson's Vanity Fair Photo and the Problem with Prescriptive Feminism
If you had never heard of Emma Watson before now, here are some things you would learn about her by reading this month’s Vanity Fair profile of the actress: she came to fame playing the bookish no-nonsense adolescent witch Hermione in the movies based on the Harry Potter book…
Milo's Noxious Doctrine
On Monday, Simon & Schuster announced it was cancelling publication of Milo Yiannopoulus’s forthcoming book “Dangerous” after a recording emerged Sunday in which Yiannopoulus defended pedophilia. Yiannopoulus, a conservative provocateur and former senior editor for Breitbart News (he resigned Tuesday), has a long history of creating controversy. At Breitbart,…
Pop Music and the Public Woman
When I was five years old, my older sister introduced me to Madonna. At first, I was a reluctant acolyte, having been conscripted into performing a choreographed dance to “Like a Prayer” with her and her best friend for my parents at Christmas. We spent hours rehearsing a number that…
Girls In Between
In the first season of the HBO show Girls, Hannah Horvath, played by Lena Dunham (who also writes and directs the show), is in between. Working an unpaid internship in New York City while pursuing a career as a writer and being supported by her parents, she is somewhere between…