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If you care about amplifying progressive women's voices in the media, WAM! is for you. Whether you're a media producer, a PR strategist, a journalist, an activist, an academic, a community organizer, a feminist, a funder or philanthropist, a "citizen" media watchdog, a media policy advocate, an alternative-network-builder, a blogger, writer, teacher, artist, technology trainer, cartoonist, deejay, or anything else! The goal of WAM! is to bring together everyone who has a stake in achieving gender justice in media, in order to share facts and ideas, develop skills, build collaborations, bridge differences and create action plans.

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  • Rebecca Traister discusses *Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women*, which offers a startling appraisal of what the campaign meant for all of us. Though the 2008 election did not give us our first woman president or vice president, the astonishing, exhilarating campaign was nonetheless transformative for American women and for the nation. A senior writer for Salon, she covered the 2008 campaign from a feminist (and personal) perspective, receiving a huge response to her pieces on Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, Michelle Obama, the media’s coverage of the candidates, and the role of women within the media. In *Big Girls Don’t Cry*, Traister makes sense of a moment in American history that changed the country’s narrative forever. Special thanks to [Northeastern University Libraries](http://www.lib.neu.edu/) for contributing this recording. Photo: Hillary Clinton at the 2008 DNC [wikipedia](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 "")
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