From Chelsea Handler’s rally in Utah to Scarlett Johannson’s speech in Washington D.C., Jewish women across the country are participating in today’s Women’s March. Lena Dunham has joined protestors in the nation’s capital, and she’s brought along a feminist ally: her mother, Laurie Simmons. Yes, my mother is captaining that pink bus of art world…
Lena Dunham has a present for Planned Parenthood as the women’s health organization celebrates its centennial, an animated video that recounts the group’s revolutionary history from Margaret Sanger to the present. Dunham narrates the video with fellow actresses Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, America Ferrera, Mindy Kaling and Hari Nef. The women discuss Sanger’s founding of…
In a Buzzfeed excerpt of the new anthology Scratch, about the financial side of writing, Emily Gould describes the pressure on women writers (in the NYC publishing world) to be likable. As someone on the periphery of the world Gould describes, I found the essay both fascinating and a bit terrifying. It had never occurred…
Lena Dunham’s hit series “Girls” is coming to an end this year, and the show’s four actresses came together to dish one last time. Dunham, Zosia Mamet, Allison Williams and Jemima Kirke all sat down with “Girls” executive producer Jenni Konner to talk fighting, growing and their best and worst memories from the show for…
Time to borrow your roommate/best friend/significant other/random work colleague’s Netflix password. It’s a new year, and there’s endless new television to binge watch. We’ve picked out just a few shows that you need to check out, each with big name Jewish talent attached. Riverdale John L. Goldwater, the late Jewish creator of “Archie and Pals,”…
Ben Shapiro, the rightwing podcast host and pundit, derided Lena Dunham for the comedian’s off-color remarks about abortion. “She wishes she could feel the solidarity and joy of having murdered a baby,” Shapiro said on the Wednesday edition of his program. “Democrats usually have the brains to cover up their enthusiasm for abortion.” He also…
As anyone with even the most fleeting familiarity with the news cycle knew would happen, Lena Dunham has now offered an apology for her remarks about wishing she’d needed and had an abortion. Yes, we are all sick of hearing about Dunham’s antics. Yes, I’m conflicted about keeping her in the news cycle. But there’s…
Lena Dunham has apologized for saying she wished she had gotten an abortion. The 30-year-old actress faced backlash over a comment she made on her podcast “Women of the Hour” last week, while discussing the stigma that surrounds abortion. Dunham, a vocal pro-choice advocate, was recounting a time when she was asked to tell her…
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