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
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 &
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
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
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,
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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:
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
