Women’s Issues

Two authors, each with a fascinating book, plus new music from London in this edition of Life Elsewhere. To begin, take a look at your body. Scrutinize your body, look at how it’s put together,...

Friday is International Women’s Day. On Sunday there’s a rally in downtown Tampa called “International Women’s Day: Say NO to Trump’s War on Women.” WMNF’s Seán Kinane interviewed Jerrica Hoey, with Florida Future Labor Leaders....

In her travels across the country, Hope Ewing discovers how women are paving the way and creating a more inclusive and sustainable world full of delicious drinks. A veteran bartender, Ewing had grown impatient with the...

Red and Green “monsters” continue… Who?  What?  Why?  How dangerous?  Nutrient enhanced? …300 tons of dead fish and aquatic life…  The tragedy is compounded by the fact that when we most need science and epidemiological data,...

“Lest we forget”…….. August 6th and August 9th – Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  We must not forget a weapon that can vaporize a human being and leave only a shadow.  The miraculous new weapon that ended...

Did you ever feel that you were at the fulcrum point of a seesaw?   Do you look back and try to address and understand that which you should have done, or do you move forward,...

When Katie Met Cassidy and Blown are two new, clever-funny novels. Both are very much set in the present, each book reels off timely iconic observations and pop-culture references without a hint of self-consciousness. Their...

Fighting to lead their party in November and reversing two decades of Republican rule in Tallahassee, the four Democratic candidates for governor in Florida spoke in Tampa on Saturday night in front of several hundred...

Through Women’s Eyes Film Festival on From a Woman’s Point of View It’s Springtime… Baseball in the snow, and luckily the beginning of the Stanley Cup playoffs.  And it is also film festivals!  Through Women’s...

On MidPoint Monday we talked about issues from the recently-completed Florida Legislative session including women’s issues, specifically access to reproductive health. We talked about a new law boosting what are called “pregnancy support centers,” but our...

“When the founders wrote, ‘We the People’ they really meant ‘We the White, Wealthy Men.’ Despite much lofty rhetoric, all men were not created equal and women didn’t count at all” You are just four...

A moment, if you will, to reflect, not only on women, but on the human race – its ongoing efforts to manifest and truly be human. It might seem ironic that women who have birthed...