Today is election day.   Please remember to vote, please make time to vote.  Your boss can’t fire you if you’re late because you had to vote and there was a line, you cant legally be penalized if you had to take a long lunch to vote, those “I voted” stickers are sexy, and it really [...]

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Trailer for The Other City.
Once again, I am participating in AIDS Walk Washington and, once again, I’m asking you to donate a few dollars to this cause.  This 5k run and walk benefits Whitman Walker Clinic, a non-profit organization that offers medical and dental care, addiction counseling, free HIV/AIDS tests, legal services, AIDS education, and [...]

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Yesterday was Women’s Equality Day!  90 years ago women in the United States gained the right to vote and ever since have been a political force to be reckoned with– on both sides of the metaphorical isle.  So today, 90 years and 1 day after our grandmothers’ gained the right to vote, indulge me just [...]

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Since last week I posted about the oil spill, something outside the usual scope of this blog, I thought “why not keep the trend going?”  I hope you’ll all take a few minutes to read about the UN Foundation’s GirlUp! campaign.  A few summers ago I (like everyone else in the US) read Three Cups [...]

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Feeling really under the weather today– my tonsils feel a bit like tennis balls.  I’d like to ask for your help for two important causes based in the D.C. area.

First is WEAVE (Women Empowered Against Violence), a group dedicated to helping women and teen girls get out of abusive relationships.  They offer a comprehensive program [...]

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You can watch the entire clip at the Rachel Maddow show website (I couldn’t get the MSNBC video player to embed).
The whole clip is tragic and fascinating all at once.

The news of Dr. George Tiller’s death shocked me.  After an incredible and peaceful Sunday with friends the news came up on my Twitter [...]

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Just a very quick note today– thesis is still keeping me busy.  I’ve nominated Michele Gregg, who worked as an underground abortion counselor in the 1960s, for the first ever Our Bodies Our Blog “Women’s Health Hero” award.  Please go vote for my video of Michele and then thank your mother’s generation for fighting a [...]

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I didn’t shoot this video, the ACLU-NCA’s intern did, but I did just finish editing it.  Rev. Ragsdale is such an incredible voice in the Pastors for choice movement, I’m sad that I wasn’t able to speak with her while she was at the Keep Our Care rally.
Editing these interviews together has become awfully easy– [...]

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I’m so sorry that this blog has become something of a video dump lately.  Honestly though, the only creative thing I’ve really be able to do in the last couple of weeks has been videos for the ACLU or managing video work I did while I was out in SD this summer.  This video was [...]

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Just wanted to point your attention to another video I made while in SD.  I thought Brenda, who works as a rape crisis counselor, was incrediblybly passionate and compassionate at the same time– a really tough combination to find, but one that is sorely needed.

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