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My Life Through Death

Finding Purpose After Tragedy Words have been my life. First as a journalist in Mississippi and Colorado and then for three decades as a public relations professional in Democratic politics. I made my living with words. Five years ago today, they left me in an instant. Thrown off of a…

The Creative Cafe

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Women Bonding with Women to End Sexual Misconduct

Empire Report NY | By Karen Hinton | September 24, 2022 A mini-series recently released on Hulu, “Mrs. America,” explores how in the seventies women bonded with women to eventually ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in 2020. Today women must bond once again to end the very thing that stands…

Sexual Abuse

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Aug 20

Stories about the Spectrum of Sexual Harassment to Rape in my book…

Watch & Listen to stories from my book: Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men & Power, Buy It on Amazon.

Rape

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Stories about the Spectrum of Sexual Harassment to Rape in my book…

Aug 15

What’s In Our Mail & Email About Our Bodies & Choices Is Nobody’s Business

Mississippi Free Press |By Karen Hinton |August 15, 2022 Last time I looked, the U.S. …

Abortion

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What’s In Our Mail & Email About Our Bodies & Choices Is Nobody’s Business

Aug 6

Airbnb Robs African-American City by Blocking Ads Lying about “Slave Quarters” on a Former Plantation in the Mississippi Delta

Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave When First We Practice to Deceive, Scottish Novelist Sir Walter Scott, 1808 — By becoming the official prefect of former slave properties along the East Coast, Airbnb is driving a nail in the economic coffin of the small, rural city of Greenville, Mississippi, one of the poorest cities in this country. This past week Airbnb announced the company is blocking its hosts from…

Slavery

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Airbnb Robs African-American City by Blocking Ads Lying about “Slave Quarters” on a Former…

Aug 2

OPINION Write Women into the United States Constitution

By Wendy Murphy and Karen Hinton/New York Daily News/ Jul 29, 2022 When Roe v. Wade was overturned, the Supreme Court effectively took women out of the Constitution. The Equal Rights Amendment would put women back in, if and when President Biden tells the woman running the National Archives and…

Equal Rights Amendment

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OPINION Write Women into the United States Constitution

Jul 11

Women, 12-year-olds need Equal Rights Amendment to survive the next 50 years

By Karen Hinton | July 8, 2022 |Laurel (Mississippi) Leader Call When the leader of Mississippi lawmakers believes any pregnant 12-year-old girl, who also is a victim of incest, should not have an abortion, it’s time to find another leader — without what House Speaker Phil Gunn called his “personal…

Abortion

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Women, 12-year-olds need Equal Rights Amendment to survive the next 50 years

Jun 21

At Ole Miss, my roles as a Lady Rebel BB-Player & a Pi Phi Sorority Angel collided. Literally.

Peggie Gillom’s Elbow Gave Me a Fat Lip & I Got Dumped at Sorority/Frat Swap —

Womens Rights

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By end of 1st semester at Ole Miss, my roles as a Lady Rebel BB-Player & a Pi Phi Sorority Angel…

Jun 21

Title IX & Penis Politics 50 Years Ago & Today — Too Many Colleges Failing the Test for Women in Sports, Including My Alma Mater, Ole Miss

I woke up this morning to the news that Congress passed Title IX 50 years ago, when I was 14 and it was 1972. Basketball was my game. Yet colleges and universities have not fully complied with the law, resisted in many places then and now. A Champion Women’s report…

Title Ix

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Jun 20

My Drive to Prove Him Dead Wrong Started the Day Daddy Died

“We need to drive to the hospital. Your daddy is in the emergency room.” Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty If you missed this piece on The Daily Beast yesterday, please have a belated read of this Father’s Day story from January 17, 1971. By Karen Hinton Updated Jun. 19, 2022…

Fathers

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My Drive to Prove Him Dead Wrong Started the Day Daddy Died