Author Rebecca Traister to headline gender bias event presented by Vermont Has Her Back and VTDigger

VTDigger is partnering with the Vermont Has Her Back initiative to advance the conversation about gender bias in the media.

At a special event on Thursday, April 1, at 6 p.m., Rebecca Traister will give a keynote address followed by a panel moderated by Vermont Public Radio’s Jane Lindholm. The panel will feature Anne Galloway, founder and executive director of VTDigger; Candace Page, editor at Seven Days; Sarah Ashworth, VPR’s vice president of news; Eva McKend, congressional correspondent for Spectrum News and former anchor for WCAX; and Natalie Silver, co-author of Vermont Has Her Back.

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In January, leaders from Vermont’s political, business and nonprofit sectors signed an open letter from Vermont Has Her Back calling on the state’s press corps to reflect on the way women in politics are covered and to address gender bias in journalism.

VTDigger and Vermont Has Her Back designed this event together as part of an ongoing effort to grapple with questions around diversity, representation and equity in Vermont’s news media.

Rebecca Traister is a writer at large for New York magazine. A National Magazine Award winner, she has written about women in politics, media, and entertainment from a feminist perspective for The New Republic and Salon and has also contributed to The Nation, The New York Observer, The New York Times and The Washington Post. She is the author of two New York Times best-sellers, Good and Mad and All the Single Ladies, as well as the award-winning book Big Girls Don’t Cry.

Traister’s keynote speech will focus on how women’s rage–and disruption to power structures–are received in media and politics.

The event will be held live over zoom in a webinar format and livestreamed on the VTDigger homepage and YouTube channel.

Attendees are strongly encouraged to RSVP via Eventbrite. Registration, while not required, will enable attendees to actively participate in the event, ask questions and receive event reminders.