(The post below repurposes, with some revisions, a post that I wrote late last year after TEDWomen. I've been revisiting it this weekend as I prepare notes for a panel that I'm moderating tomorrow...
This film was previewed at TED Women in December. I was there. I cried. I also laughed - a lot - but the crying really ruined my make-up, so. They were good tears, though:...
It was sometime early on in one of the first sessions of TEDWomen last week that the question occurred to me: are we saying to each other here – in this go go women go celebration of everything that women can do – that women are the new men? And if that’s the case, is the corollary that men are the new women? Or that less-advantaged women are the new (and old) women? Whither women qua women, if women are trying to escape themselves?
TEDWomen was an idea-hurricane, check an inspiration-avalanche, a brainwave tsunami, a tornado of provocation and stimulation, a force of nature - if nature wore high heels - a force to be reckoned with,...
"Every girl in the world deserves the chance to pursue her hopes and dreams." - Hilary Clinton, TEDWomen, Washington D.C., December 8, 2010
Every girl does deserve that chance. My girl deserves that chance. This...
This week, I'm in Washington DC to attend the TEDWomen conference. Some of the other women attending include Arianna Huffington and Nancy Pelosi and Naomi Klein. The only thing that could make the whole...