Pinned

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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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

Jun 15

Decisions to End Roe & Expand Gun Rights Will Put Women “In Their Place,” Redrawing Our Constitutional Map

By 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 Ascent

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Decisions to End Roe & Expand Gun Rights Will Put Women “In Their Place,” Redrawing Our…

Jun 6

The “Mutinous Women” Book About Female Convicts Turned Into Slaves Centuries Ago — Very Similar To Women’s Stories Today

By 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. …

Books

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The “Mutinous Women” Book About Women Convicts Turned Into Slaves Centuries Ago — Very Similar To…

Jun 5

Speak Up, Never Shut Up

Prologue of Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men & Power — I once said women are damned if they speak up and damned if they shut up. Women rarely win. I was wrong. Speaking up about a concern, problem, discrimination, harassment abuse or more is something we all need to learn how to do. The beginning of my book, Penis Politics…

Sexual Harassment

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Speak Up, Never Shut Up

Prologue of Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men & Power

My book is not just about my stories but also stories about women and girls…

I once said women are damned if they speak up and damned if they shut up. Women rarely win.

I was wrong. Speaking up about a concern, problem, discrimination, harassment abuse or more is something we all need to learn how to do.

The beginning of my book, Penis Politics…

Jun 1

What my abortion taught me about rights

By 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. …

Abortion

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May 24

The Andrew Cuomo I have known: A long pattern of harassing staffers, especially women

By 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 Cuomo

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May 9

How 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. …

Politics

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