Rose McGowan cancels film festival appearance amid Weinstein allegations
CNN

Rose McGowan has canceled an appearance at the Tallgrass Film Festival in Kansas just 24 hours before she was to be honored with the event's Ad Astra Award.

Sarah Solemani: 'The TV and film industries are toxic – and it starts in the audition room'
The Guardian

The Harvey Weinstein scandal puts us at a crossroads. Can we remake the industry?

The women fighters who helped defeat ISIS in Raqqa
CNN

Kurdish female fighters have celebrated in Raqqa this week after the defeat of ISIS militants, whose brutal rule over the city has come to an end after almost four years.

On International Day of the Girl, CEO of Together for Girls Talks About Fighting Sexual Violence

by Sawyer Phillips

“We know that a third of all women will experience sexual violence or intimate partner violence in their lifetime. So there’s so many of us but, most of us live our whole lives in silence,” says Daniela Ligiero, CEO of Together for Girls.

Women & Gun Safety; Abortion Rights; Birth Control

This week on To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbe, our panelists discuss if guns laws make women safer, politicians who are hypocritical on abortion, and the rollback on the Obamacare birth control mandate.

On the panel this week joining host Bonnie Erbe is: Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin, Independent Women’s Voices Senior Policy Analyst Patrice Onwuka, Former Judge & Federal Prosecutor Debra Carnahan

Click read more to see what they had to say!