Women's Issues

Professor Melinda Barlow talks boobs in film history and Jayne Mansfield's genius IQ

Since Feminism & Co.'s inception, Melinda Barlow has a been a favored speaker at the MCA Denver's engaging spring series. Associate professor of film studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Barlow is also a well-versed film and video historian and curator who focuses on contemporary women ... More >>

Keyboard Feminism

Artist Ellina Kevorkian on taking the academia out of art and growing up a Gilman Street punk

With her blog Violet Against Women, Los Angeles-based artist Ellina Kevorkian explores how she informs and presents her own identity through online curation. Kevorkian, who was commissioned by MCA Denver to expound upon Violet Against Women: Confronting Notions of the Feminine, a collection of live ... More >>

100 Colorado Creatives: Feminism & Co. co-curator Elissa Auther

#82: Elissa Auther As co-curator of the MCA Denver's annual Feminism & Co. (there's another installment tonight), Elissa Auther has been responsible for bringing untold stories and untrue stereotypes to the forefront.Through the creation of panels on polyamory, feminist science and women's roles in ... More >>

The Rougher Sex

Scholar and fighter L.A. Jennings talks feminism in the world of Mixed Martial Arts

Feminist scholar/fighter L.A. Jennings has seen her share of gender bias in the competitive arena. Now a retired a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Sanshou and MMA fighter, Jennings spends most of her time training both men and women at her Denver gym, Train. Fight. Win. But she's also a scholar working on her ... More >>

MCA Denver's Feminism & Co. 2013 lineup announced

Feminism & Co., the innovative social gathering and lecture series at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, always packs a well-crafted and intellectually aware pop-culture punch. Previous sold-out discussions have brought feminist scientists, sex workers, Tupperware saleswomen and female body buil ... More >>

Justice Is Served

Author Alexia Parks on why women are hardwired to save the world

Women are natural born leaders, according to Alexia Parks; in fact, she says, female leadership could save the world. Parks will talk about this theory and the science behind her book Hardwired: The 10 Major Traits of Women Hardwired by Evolution That Can Save the World tonight at 7 p.m. at the Chau ... More >>

MoveShake: Shannon Galpin documentary premieres online tonight

Tonight at 7 p.m., filmmakers Allie Bombach and Sarah Menzies will show the first two films in their MoveShake series online at www.MoveShake.org.The MoveShake films profile people pushing for environmental and social change; Breckenridge-based Shannon Galpin, who founded Mountain2Mountain, an organ ... More >>

DIY feminist science writer Margaret Wertheim discusses the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef

Science writer Margaret Wertheim specializes in weighty topics, but she has a light touch when writing about science and mathematics. The author of several books dealing with theoretical physics within a cultural context as well as articles for numerous publications -- everything from the New York T ... More >>

Feminism & Co.'s Funny Women: Can you be too much of a woman on stage?

Friday night's installment of Feminism & Co., the third in this season's series at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, was titled simply "Funny Women." But as the MCA has shown itself to be very good at doing, the museum had booked an expert in the field of funny: comedian Cory Kahaney. In turn, ... More >>

V-Day Denver combats violence against women with benefit production of A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer

Tonight and tomorrow at the Mercury Cafe, V-Day Denver will stage readings from A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer, an anthology about violence against women co-edited by Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues. This is only one of the events organized by V-Day Denver, this city's arm o ... More >>

Feminism & Co. sells out a program on sex work

Selling out for the first time since moving into its basement home at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Friday night's Feminism & Co.: Sex Work lecture had to turn many people away at the door. The expertly curated lecture series seeks out artists, scholars and women of all trades to speak about women ... More >>

Sex Marks the Spot

Reader: Get a grip, dude. Feminism is for everybody!

Feminism isn't a ladies-only club, Bree Davies pronounced yesterday. Feminism is for everybody. Including two very supportive male friends: one of whom attended the Rally to Protect Women's Health at the Capitol Monday, both of whom earned a shout-out in her piece.

Have you hugged your male feminist today?

I started writing this piece by reiterating my usual spiel about why I'm a late-blooming feminist and why it's important for all people to be feminists. But no one wants to hear that. No one likes to be told what they aren't doing, even if asking that all humans to be treated equally seems like a f ... More >>

Rally to Protect Women's Health takes on fetal murder bill, personhood initiative

Pro-choice activists, legislators, physicians and faith leaders gathered on the west steps of the Capitol Monday in a "Rally to Protect Women's Health." The event was a spin-off of Pro-Choice Lobby Day, as well as a response to local and federal fetal personhood proposals.

2012 Women Film Voices Festival programming announced

"Last year, five percent of movies were made by women," says Karla Rodriguez of the Denver FilmCenter. Which is exactly why this second annual edition of Women Film Voices is imperative -- to shine a light on a corner of the film-making world that is often overlooked. The lineup for the festival, ... More >>

Women’s Room

Craft Punk

Last Night: Feminism & Co. brought together marketing and the feminist consciousness

Modular Mates: Tupperware for everybody​At last night's "Toys & Tupperware," the opening program of the Feminism & Co. series, the purposeful juxtaposition of topics worked -- to a certain extent. Placing an emphasis on women and work, the evening focused on women working in the billion-dollar mul ... More >>

Tonight at MCA Denver: Feminism & Co. opens a new season with tupperware and dildos

MCA DenverThe most psychedelic tupperware party ever.​Stepping into its fourth year, the Feminism & Co. lecture series at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver has touched on topics ranging from female bodybuilding to polyamorous relationships, all in an effort to engage conversation about ... More >>

The Unkindest Cut

Women’s Day

Lust-Cats of he Gutters at the Denver Creative Co-op Studio

Talking Tassels

Moral Fiber

Ladies' Night: Another Attack

Letters to the Editor

From the week of 2/22/2007

Take a Chill Pill

Best Historic Show -- Group

True Grit

Hear Them Roar

The Mizel Center presents a groundbreaking history of feminist art.

No Hot Flash in the Pan

Menopause The Musical provides some fluffy comedy about female changes.

Irish Eyes

Tom Quinn Kumpf digs into deep-rooted Celtic myths

Follow That Story

Ready, Aim, Fire!

Meow Mix

The musical feminists in Le Tigre get catty -- and dance.

Womb Service

The Vagina Monologues are back, for a benefit at the Boulder Theater.

Skating on Thin Ice

Patrick Roy's slide from hero to zero.

Head Case

A lawsuit is driving DU's Graduate School of Professional Psychology crazy -- or was it already?

An Unhealthy Situation

Letters

From the week of July 9, 1998

Women's Work

Colorado activists struck first on domestic violence.

Hitting Them Where They Live

Colorado has become a national laboratory for domestic-violence programs. sometimes it's a strange science. A Westword special report

A Lawman on Domestic Violence

King James's Version

James Dobson issues gender "guidelines" for the country's most popular Bible.

Alice Doesn't Edit Here Anymore

Inside Denver's hottest--and littlest--newspaper war.

A REAL CLASS ACT

A COMMUNITY COLLEGE TEACHER'S COME-ON GETS A BYSTANDER HOT AND BOTHERED--AND A STUDENT EDITOR BOOTED.

THE FEMINIST MISTAKE

MOUTHING OFF