Our Advocacy Work
January 20th, 2022
In the context of Informed Opinions’ work to combat the #ToxicHush of online hate, we’re deeply conscious of how much abuse many outspoken women and gender-diverse journalists, bloggers and influencers receive. Noting a recent tweet by longtime feminist columnist, Heather Mallick about blocking words on Twitter, we reached out to learn more… Do you remember […]
read more...Blocking Online Abuse: Q&A with Toronto Star columnist Heather Mallick
Our Advocacy Work
December 29th, 2021
Esther Choo is a physician who does medical commentary on CNN, MSNBC and BBC. She has more than 192,000 followers. And because she’s a feminist, tweets about gender inequities, and is also Asian American, she gets trolled. But she’s smart and has a sense of humour, too. So here’s what she does when she gets […]
read more...How to Use #Ottertime to Fight Online Hate and Disorient Trolls
Blog Post and Our Advocacy Work
April 27th, 2018
We recently surveyed hundreds of women who’ve participated in our workshops and remained on our mailing list. Email overflow and work-life demands being what they are, we were happy to log 57 responses from women in 16 cities across the country. They gave us insight into what use they’ve made of the training we deliver, […]
read more...What Impact are We Having? What More Can We Do?
Master Media Engagement
March 18th, 2014
Don’t blame the messenger, folks: When Steve Paikin, host of The Agenda blogged and tweeted recently about the show’s difficulties in recruiting female guests, he elicited a firestorm of protest. But what he says rings true to me. Our experience is that women decline interviews much more often than their male counterparts. Many journalists have told us this, […]
read more...Why women decline interviews – and how we’re trying to change that
Improve your Writing
November 8th, 2013
Hanging out with teenagers can be an enlightening experience. Last week, I participated in a panel discussion convened by MediaSmarts, “Canada’s centre for digital and media literacy” and a repository of fabulous resources for teachers, parents and kids. The teenagers present from across Canada asked really smart questions, many of which betrayed both deep scepticism […]
read more...TL;DR – advice to ignore, but implications to heed
Master Media Engagement
February 22nd, 2012
Should she or shouldn’t she? I was chatting on the phone a few weeks ago with a woman who is listed in our Experts Database. She had written an excellent piece of commentary about First Nations and non-aboriginal Canadians that appeared in the Toronto Star, and was wondering why, since the article appeared at the […]
read more...To Tweet or Not to Tweet…
