The Disruptors Mindr is Disrupting Motherhood 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,
The Disruptors 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
Public Filter 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
Public Filter 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
The Disruptors How She Is Changing The Gender Imbalance In Financial Advisors The 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
The Disruptors 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
Public Filter 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
Public Filter 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
Public Filter 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
Public Filter 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
Public Filter 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
Public Filter 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
Public Filter 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
Public Filter 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
Public Filter 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,
Public Filter 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
Public Filter 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
Public Filter A Journal of the Women's March January 19 - Two days before the march My poster is ready. It is a bright neon green with ‘no freedom without choice’ on it in black block letters that show off all the doodling I’ve done in my life when I should have been paying attention. On the
Public Filter Let's March To Be Heard Within the study of linguistic pragmatics, speech act theory is a theory of meaning that sees speech as “an action within the framework of social institutions and conventions.” In other words, what we say can't really be separated from our actions, because to speak is to act. And that action
Public Filter Michelle Obama: Redefining Role Model As we near the end of Barack Obama’s presidency, another tenure is also coming to a close. After eight years, Americans will be saying goodbye to our self-described “mom in chief.” Michelle Obama’s journey to the city White House began just as the oldest millennial women were entering
Public Filter The Paradoxical Princess Writing for the New York Times after news broke of Carrie Fisher’s death, A. O. Scott described her iconic role as Princess Leia as “...the foremother of Hermione Granger and Katniss Everdeen and of countless latter day Disney princesses.” Though it is doubtless that the character of Leia pandered
Public Filter The Pro-Life Myth (Part 3) Read Part 1 and Part 2 in The Pro-Life Myth Series. Myths operate at the level of the subconscious. They are stories told over time, in bits and pieces, over and over again. I don’t remember my first baby doll, and I’m not entirely certain when I stopped