Activism

I am often being asked by readers and audiences, "What can I do?"

Here are the areas in which I take the approach of "Make things happen." You can join me in any number of these:

China Doll -- Infanticide and gendercide in China

• I respond to blogs, news, and write my own articles, the latest being "Baby Supermarket." (You can help by picking up information on this website and similarly use it by responding to blogs and media news). The upcoming 2008 Olympics in Beijing is a chance to break the silence on the "missing" 1.7 million girls each year.

• My hard-facts Power Point presentation at the Feb-March 2007 U.N. Conference on the Status of Women is now accessible here. 

Puppet Child -- The scandal in our own backyard is the courts' abuse of molested children

• I have helped launch The Protective Parent Reform Act, which has already passed in a couple of states and is in front of the legislature in many others. Use the Power Point presentation I offer for free, and take it to activists, civic and political groups--and more importantly, to your state legislators and congressional representatives.

• My new project (drafted January 2007) is JAW--Judges Against Mothers--which will quantify bias and discrimination against women in court. Any academic connection you may have--with students, professors, department heads and administrators--in areas of social work, law, journalism, statistics or women's studies will be helpful.

• Other projects you can tackle: court watch and activism are listed at the bottom of the Puppet Child article page.

• Subscribe to my occasional mailing about news and relevant information at PuppetChild-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Global terrorism, anti-Semitism, Israel & Middle East issues.

• Subscribe to my almost-daily mailings of selected articles published in the media--and distribute them to educate others. Please write to: WordFairy2-subscribe@yahoogroups.com (readers' responses are not distributed).

Jewish Women's issues

• Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (HBI) is the Jewish women's section of Brandeis University Women's Studies department. HBI researches and documents all aspects of Jewish women's life--past, present, and future.

• You may subscribe to HBI's 614 electronic journal

• Start an HBI Learning Circle--an in-depth study group of Jewish women's issues of your choice out of the two dozens offered by HBI.

Writing

• Join the International Women Writing Guild.

• Start your writing group. If you don't know how, ask me. My 12-year old writing group in Long Island is a source of joy, friendship, support, and professional development. My 3-year old writing group in NYC anchors me into routine, challenges me, and gets me out of the literary life's isolation.

• Write about what you don't know. Research it, feel it from the inside, and let your imagination soar.

• FYI, my current project: Editing my latest novel-in-progress, Jerusalem Maiden, set in the early 1900s in Jerusalem.