The Feministing Five Interview
Feministing.com’s Chloe Angyal asked me the five questions that the terrific online community puts to a different feminist every week. In case you have ever wondered what food, beverage, and feminist I’d take with me to a desert island, read on…
Gloria Feldt is a force to be reckoned with. Feldt is the former President and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Foundation of America and has devoted her entire working life to women’s rights. This week marked the conclusion of efforts to pass health care reform, and because abortion coverage was used, successfully, as a wedge issue in the debate over those efforts, it’s important to reflect on what went wrong, what we did right, and what our next steps should be. And who better to help us understand that than Feldt?
That said, any week is a good week to interview a woman who had led a life like Feldt’s. Raised in West Texas, she grew up in a world that was, in so many ways, totally different from the one we live in today, a world where women couldn’t get credit cards or take out loans under their own names or without their husbands’ permission. Today,
INTENTIONING
Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women
Will Take The Lead for (Everyone’s) Good
The new book from Gloria Feldt about the future, taking the leadership lessons learned from this disruption and creating a better world for all through the power of intention.
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Rebekah Friend
Good article.
March 28 at 9:25pm ·
Amy Ferris
Amy Ferris
my husband, tea & bread – exquisite. thank you.
March 28 at 9:59pm ·
Madama Ambi
Madama Ambi
no…I’m sorry…I refuse to read an interview with a woman who keeps looking younger and younger…I’m only half-kidding you, Gloria…when is it going to be okay for older women to show their gray hair? Gray hair as in wisdom, maturity? As in facing mortality? As in “I’ve seen a LOT in my lifetime?” As in POWER? As in No Apologies for Living … See MorePast My Sexual Prime? Yes, I am asserting that there is true POWER in owning one’s maturity, aging, mortality and complete freedom from operating within the sphere of sexual attractiveness that has run the lives of women in this country. You know I love you, Gloria, but am I gonna be the only gray-haired feminist in the U.S. other than Eleanor Smeal? I’m gonna update my icon so people can see how OLD I really am…
March 28 at 11:43pm ·
Gloria Feldt
Gloria Feldt
You are so funny, Madama-I actually stopped coloring my hair a few years ago–I used to get highlights– and expected it to be grey but like my mother and grandmother, I don’t have enough grey to be seen in photos. But if it makes you feel better, you could see some grey in person. And very droopy arms despite working out every day.
March 29 at 1:17am ·
Eve Norman
Eve Norman
My hair is not gray. Gray is dull. If Gray Davis’ parents had named him “Silver”, perhaps he would not have been as bland. My hair is SILVER- valued as precious metal. Confuses the DMV.(every time I renew) . I refuse to have my hair color listed as gray. DMV doesn’t have a category for “silver”. My hair color is listed as “white”. I LOVE my … See Morenever dyed hair. Always have. OK, I admit I added temp “punk” color, to surprise my 30 year old granddaughter when she visited me with her friends, a few years ago.
March 29 at 2:10am ·
Sandy Owen
Sandy Owen
I like the new long hair!
March 29 at 10:29am ·
Gloria Feldt
Gloria Feldt
Interesting that we are talking about looks 🙂
March 29 at 12:13pm ·
Sandy Owen
Sandy Owen
Sorry about that but we can take some comfort in you-know-who’s $400 haircut! 🙂
March 29 at 12:44pm ·
Ginny Dickey
Ginny Dickey
It is interesting… on that note, my gray undoubtedly shows in photos. Appreciate your take on the “now what?” moment after an achievement. It is a dilemma.
March 29 at 12:58pm ·
Madama Ambi
Madama Ambi
my hair is GRAY and it might be DULL but my mind is SHARP and my neurocircuits snap, crackle and pop…like Gloria sez: it’s what’s up FRONT (as in frontal cortex) that counts…and my arms are fat and droopy and on a good day I feel like shit and on a bad day you don’t want to know me…but, as I will be continuing to rant, my words and my wisdom matter, not my looks…
March 29 at 1:04pm ·
Lisa Cohen
Lisa Cohen
You look fabulous!!!
March 29 at 3:45pm ·
Barbara Hannah Grufferman
Barbara Hannah Grufferman
It’s about time women showed their gray! We can just add some highlights if you want to have fun, but stop the single process. Gloria, you look gorgeous in red, by the way.
March 29 at 4:15pm ·
Madama Ambi
Madama Ambi
Red = POWER/HEART/COURAGE/VITALITY in my world. LUV your RED, Ga-loria!
March 29 at 4:24pm ·
Madama Ambi
Madama Ambi
speaking of red…a gaggle of the Red Hat Ladies was having lunch at an art museum I attended some months ago…they were obviously having TONS OF FUN, laughing and taking up a LOT of space…they made me smile…a somewhat subdued woman working in the museum shop cracked that she hoped she never reached the age where she felt she had to display … See Moreherself so…um…thusly…I asked her why and she would say no more…I, for one, would rather hang out with red-hatted women livin’ a little LARGE than with fearful, judgmental ones…just a little meditation on RED in our world…
March 29 at 6:33pm ·
Gloria Feldt
Gloria Feldt
Red is my favorite color. But then I’m an Aries.
March 29 at 8:33pm ·
Beth Corbin
Beth Corbin
Gloria thanks for the article. I was so proud of NOW president Terry O’Neill when we met with our Senators from Maryland. She told them that NOW could not support the health care reform bill if it contained Hyde, or ANY language restricting abortion rights. I think NOW might have been the only national organization that took a hard line of no compromise on abortion.
Well, perhaps NOW was the only well-known national feminist organization to take that stance.