Bad news all around - for women in Washington, for Native Americans placed in state mission housing, and for Occupy Seattle. more ›

One of the subjects of Joshua Trujillo's now-famous Occupy Seattle photos, 19-year-old Jennifer Fox, says she was three months pregnant when the SPD pepper-sprayed her last week. Now, reports Occupy bloggers, The Stranger and a whole host of other publications, she says she miscarried as a result of the pepper spray, plus getting hit in the stomach. more ›

It took filmmaker Jennifer Fox four years, seventeen countries, and 1,600 hours of footage (which she whittled down to 6 hours of film) to fully cover the cross-cultural confusion of modern womanhood. The project didn't start out that high-minded; Jennifer was dating two men and not entirely happy with either, which led to an identity crisis that inspired her travels exploring what it means to be a woman today. The result is her sweeping, compelling tour de force Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman. Along her journey, there’s a lot of girl-talk over food and drinks, and in that way, Flying is a slow-moving and much smarter version of Sex and the City, where Carrie Bradshaw eschews the contrivance of writing a newspaper column and just addresses the camera directly. But at the same time, it’s a state of the union on the current female experience, covering everything from physical and sexual abuse, orgasm, sex trafficking, honor killing, female genital mutilation, in vitro fertilization, abortion, and marriage. more ›