PinnedMy Life Through DeathFinding 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 Cafe9 min read
Jun 21At 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 Rights5 min read
Jun 21Title IX & Penis Politics 50 Years Ago & Today — Too Many Colleges Failing the Test for Women in Sports, Including My Alma Mater, Ole MissI 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 Ix3 min read
Jun 20My 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…Fathers18 min read
Jun 15Decisions to End Roe & Expand Gun Rights Will Put Women “In Their Place,” Redrawing Our Constitutional MapBy Karen Hinton & Francis McInerney | Empire Report NY | June 14, 2022 If conservative Supreme Court justices rule as expected on abortion and gun rights this year, their judgments will inch us closer and closer to taking away other constitutional rights — most of them hard-earned by and…The Ascent5 min read
Jun 6The “Mutinous Women” Book About Female Convicts Turned Into Slaves Centuries Ago — Very Similar To Women’s Stories TodayBy Karen Hinton | June 5, 2022 | Empire Report NY I’m reading Joan DeJean’s book Mutinous Women about how French female convicts became the Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast. …Books4 min read
Jun 5Speak Up, Never Shut UpPrologue of Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women… — Sexual Harassment1 min readMy book is not just about my stories but also stories about women and girls I’ve known since I was 16 to 63.Speak Up, Never Shut UpPrologue of Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women…----
Jun 1What my abortion taught me about rightsBy Karen Hinton, New York Daily News, Jun 01, 2022 at 5:00 am My mother told me once abortions were wrong, but when a close relative of ours got a girl pregnant, Momma paid for it. They were 16-year-old classmates in a Mississippi high school. …Abortion4 min read
May 24The Andrew Cuomo I have known: A long pattern of harassing staffers, especially womenBy Karen Hinton, New York Daily News, May 17, 2021 at 5:00 am (I wrote this piece only a few months before Cuomo resigned. Let’s never forget why.) Studies have shown that toxic work environments for women grow after a male boss or co-worker commits multiple incidents of sexual harassment…Andrew Cuomo4 min read
May 9How to Counter Penis Politics:What it’s like to work for Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio By Karen Hinton/New York Daily News/Feb 24, 2021 at 5:00 am I’ve worked for and with powerful men in and around politics my whole life. …Politics4 min read