Focus on Women: Women on the Move
 
Want to connect with your community here in Asheville? Check out our forums and blog. There are many issues women in our culture face on a daily basis—how to make a living for a family (particularly for single Moms), how to raise, plan, and care for children in this complex world of choices, how to protect oneself physically and emotionally at work, traveling, at home and on and on. We want to address issues of importance to you. let us know what's of interest to you,what you want to read about and help us find good information out there.
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 Chiffon Journalism
Womens Media Center
The debate rages - are newspapers really dead? Is this a disaster for democracy? The Women's Media Center has published an essay by Mary Kay Blakely that examines this question from a completely different angle: the fact that women's journalism has always been a marginalized form of publishing by the very types who are now feeling marginalized themselves. So is this just crocodile tears? Or the inability to compete for ideas except as a privileged majority.
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Sheville Staff
MARCH is National Women’s History Month
The overarching theme for March 2010 is Writing Women Back into History
In 2010, in celebration of our 30th Anniversary, we'll highlight themes from previous years, ones that recognize a different aspect of women’s achievements...
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Womens Media Center
Recently the UN announced approval of a new agency for women—an event that followed years of complex organizing by individuals and advocacy groups around the world. more...
Womens Media Center
In the last week of October, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made headlines and sparked anger in travels to Israel and Pakistan. Her role some weeks earlier was less controversial yet critically important, as she led UN diplomats forward in an action that could ease the suffering of countless women and girls living in conflict zones around the world.
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Womens Media Center
In Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, Gabourey Sidibe plays the title role of the obese Harlem teenager caught up in a cycle of abuse, incest and poverty. The New York Times, among others, raved about this, her first film performance, calling it “terrific” and “dazzling.”
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NDiaye becomes first black woman to win top French book award
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French-Senegalese writer Marie NDiaye is the first Black woman to receive the prestigious French literary award, the Prix Goncourt in its 106 year history. More...
Womens Media Center
For over a decade, Sakena Yacoobi has worked for the welfare of her nation, particularly the girls and women of Afghanistan. more...
Va Boyle
I drove through a lovely valley road on a beautiful North Carolina day into one of the lower, shady forests of the Blue Ridge Parkway to meet with a stalwart, seasoned survivor of life, Adelaide Key. Her big spirit is contained within her small stature set off by the humor and challenge which seems to coexist comfortably within her robust composure. Her clear blue eyes seem to see through any pretense one might carry and clear up any need to be what you are not. more...
Count, Count, Revolution!
Sheville Staff
Ms Magazine has an interesting article about the real statistics about just how much influence women have had in the arts - numbers generated by counting. And these numbers are definitely starting to rattle some cages.
Why do we need to keep Talking about this?
Sheville Staff
Do you ever stop wondering about why you feel you need to go to places like Sheville to find out what other women think? You might be interested in a recent piece by Deborah Howell in the Washington Post. What she details are the actual facts and figures related to the relative paucity of Op-Ed pieces by women, people of color, not to mention younger people. Middle aged white men dominate there - as usual.
What a Feminist Looks Like
News or Press Release
There's a great video from the Feminist Majority called What
a Feminist Looks Like.
Eleven Tips on Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees (1943)
Sheville Staff
In the category of unsure whether this is depressing or educational, we present
this piece of advice from our herstory:
Eleven Tips on Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees (1943). While
the Women's History Month page on which this occurs dubs this piece "hilarious,"
in light of the 2008 election, we are not so sure.
New Girl Order
Sheville Staff
Heard about the New Girl Order? It's a worldwide phenomenon. Even in a number
of quite sexist societies, women are discovering that marriage may not be the
best career choice! From New York to Poland to India to Japan to Korea, women
are staying single into their thirties as they pursue career goals - and also
as they reject many of the traditional ideas about marriage and female subservience.
This SYF (Single Young Female) trend has hit many cultures completely by surprise.
And it's not so easy for societies to try to reject it out of hand: the trend
has spawned considerable economic buying power. For more info, see http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_4_new_girl_order.html
J. Lee Lehman
Yes, I admit it. My partner and I took turns reading Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows aloud to each other the weekend of its release. It seemed
both fairer, not to mention more fun, to savor that last piece of the story
together. more...
Va Boyle
“I’d like to teach the world to sing.” This is truly Debbie Nordeen’s mantra. To boot, she not only teaches what she believes, she lives it; she “walks the talk”. Debbie is well known in Asheville for directing the Womansong of Asheville chorus. She feels she has had a destiny with women all of her life even though she also enjoys working with men. In singing with and for women Womansong sings for the unsung heroes in our world, ones who make a huge difference. Debbie recognizes women as people who model, influence and bring about change. more...
Va Boyle
For our next WNC Luminaries feature, we are focusing on another regional light who has made a difference in this community, Lois “Lytingale” Henrickson.
Certainly a luminary in a variety of fields, Lytingale, or “Lyte” as some friends call her, possesses a myriad of talents and uses them well to light her own way and the way of many others along her path. more...
Nancy Spence
Getting through the bad times is a challenge to the most stoic of personalities. Major life events – losing a job or getting newly hired; falling in or out of love; loss of physical capacity or health; finding oneself in a financial crunch – all of these life changes engender an amazing level of stress, whether the stress is acknowledged or not. more...
Jessie Snyder
Very uncomfortable.
We had lots of wind with confused and choppy seas. Over Sunday night and Monday we saw a total of seven ships, enjoyed a school of enthusiastic porpoises, had a dandy nature lesson as Mike’s sport was scooping sargasso weed in a net. The haul included shrimp, crab, pipe fish, file fish and one trigger fish.
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Jessie Snyder
Soon after our wedding, I realized that I was in fact married “for better or for boats!” It wasn’t a problem until retirement, when he announced “this is what we are going to do”. I decided then that it would be better to be with him than at home worrying about him, but I was apprehensive. Would I be hopelessly seasick, homesick, bored, afraid? more...
Jessie Snyder
Bahamas Nassau to Allan’s Cay -
At last we have sunshine, typical Bahamian colors, and again lots of southwestern wind. We enjoyed a beautiful down-wind sail to Allan’s Cay smooth water, dry air; an opportunity to do some laundry. more...
 Quotable - Alice Walker
Alice Walker
"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names."
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WNC Luminary: "Empathy in Action: An Interview with Adelaide Daniels Key"
A Photo Journal by Jessie Snyder - Part III Bajo Nuevo to the San Blas Islands
A Photo Journal by Jessie Snyder Part I – Introduction
A Photo Journal by Jessie Snyder Part II – Bahamas Nassau to Baja Nuevo