Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'Social Justice'

In Search of the American Dream: Interview with Radical Homemaker Shannon Hayes

by Sarah McGowan - USA - If you’re one of the millions of Americans affected by the credit crunch – unemployed, uninsured and unsure of your future, or working yourself to death just to live - Shannon Hayes’ book Radical...

Anne Firth Murray’s Paradigm Found: Global Recovery for the 21st Century

by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor, The WIP Just when it feels like things are completely falling apart, the slightest shift may occur and what at one time appeared to be falling apart is really falling together. After reading Anne Firth...

Mine: The Pets That Hurricane Katrina Left Behind

by Jessica Mosby - USA - The most emotionally and politically-charged documentary of the year is about a surprisingly original subject: the domestic pets that were lost or left behind in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Mine artfully portrays the...

A Brave New World: Women as Architects of Peace

by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor & Founder, The WIP This past weekend I was invited to keynote the Global Women’s Conference at CSU Fullerton. It was a great opportunity for me to reflect on the journey that we’ve been on...

Stripping Burlesque of Whiteness: Brown Girls Burlesque Take Center Stage

by Mandy Van Deven - India - Known for its bawdy sexual humor, over-the-top characters, and underlying social criticism, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales set the stage for the satirical theatrics which came to be known as burlesque. During its...