- Website: http://feministing.com
Samhita is a 31 year old writer and activist who just moved after a 7 year stint in San Francisco to upstate NY. She is the web manager at the Center for Media Justice an Oakland based org that provides media strategy and action for justice based grass-roots organizing groups. She has a Bachelors degree in Sociology and Women's Studies from SUNY Albany and a Masters in Women's Studies from San Francisco State focused on blogging, gender, social networking technology and activism. She is on the advisory board at Wiretap Magazine. She has written for New American Media, Wiretap, Colorlines, the Nation and the American Prospect. She has been featured in India Currents Magazine, Nirali Magazine and Alternet. In 2007 she was named a Champion of Sexual Literacy by the National Sexuality Resource Center. Samhita has been featured on multiple panels, including South by South West Interactive, Allied Media Conference, National Conference on Media Reform and Women, Action and Media, discussion, gender, race, sexuality and the internet. Samhita focuses most of her writing on popular culture, race, gender, the prison industrial complex and the romantic industrial complex.
Recent Entries from Samhita
- Sexist Advertising FAIL and Jenny Lewis to Boot. - Feministing
- POC Queer and Two Spirit Community Organizers Kicked out of Pride Parade. - Feministing
- What We Missed. - Feministing
- Getting Closer to Removing the HIV Travel and Immigration Ban. - Feministing
- Reversing "Reverse" Racism or Something. - Feministing
Recents Comments from Samhita
- Yeah, I reread that and didn't like the sound. I blog so much, I don't always get every word right, but I think something along the lines of how it is easy to stand on one side and say you
(posted to An 11 Year Old Girl is Violently Raped, A Community Responds with Vigilante Justice. ) - Haha! I guess we do have the words don't we...
(posted to Breaking: Officer Johannes Mehserle will be standing trial for murder in the Oscar Grant case. ) - Yeah, I just like the points she is making, maybe calling her a genius went too far, LOL, but I will def check out the documentary. It is just a refreshing analysis.
(posted to Aretha vs. Beyonce: Please Don't Let This Be the Future of Political Discourse) - awesome! you should put it up on the community site as a response to this post. There was def part of me that was feeling like, "wait a minute" but i went in this direction instead cuz i felt like
(posted to Aretha vs. Beyonce: Please Don't Let This Be the Future of Political Discourse) - I think we should lobby for change in media representation through petitions, bills and on the ground organizing. I don't think free speech and hate speech with the intention to incite violence are the same thing. Distaste is one thing...hate
(posted to Things That Make You Go, "OMFG STFU")
Responses to Comments from Samhita
- And implying that someone is racist and that they are trying to scapegoat someone or some group of people when they point out a problem in a community is the second oldest trick in the book. Again, whether you like (posted to Things That Make You Go, "OMFG STFU")
- That news is very interesting! Thanks for the nice update. I learn a lot. But aside from that breaking report let me share something new concern to you. The banking and credit cards industries are under a lot of fire (posted to Things That Make You Go, "OMFG STFU")
- I did not use the term racist and was not attempting to imply that you, or anyone else responding to this thread, was a racist. I was merely pointing out that we have had this exact same conversation many times (posted to Things That Make You Go, "OMFG STFU")
- this is so crazy to sit there and what this. I am not sure if this entertainment. I will not being show up for this. Home Improvement Tips (posted to Burning Man 2008: The American Dream)
- this has to be the ugliest think that i every saw. Who would wear something like this. I know i would not wear this. What would this go with. Home Improvement Tips (posted to American Apparel: Jungle prints are back!)












