About FPN Founder Lucinda Marshall

Lucinda Marshall is the Director of the Feminist Peace Network (FPN) which she founded in December, 2001 as a virtual ‘room of our own’ where women concerned about how the impending U.S. invasion of Afghanistan (and later Iraq) would impact women’s lives could share their thoughts and ideas for action in a safe, supportive space. While initially focusing on militarism, the network, with participants from around the world, has expanded its vision to also address what Marshall calls the other terrorism, the systemic global pandemic of violence against women.

In her efforts to raise awareness about these issues and how they impact women’s human rights, Marshall authors the FPN blog and has published numerous articles in a wide variety of publications—from the Los Angeles Times to the Malaysian journal, Resurgence. Through her writing, Marshall brings a gendered analysis of women’s human rights that focuses not only on militarism but also on how economic, environmental and health issues effect women as well as the ongoing problem of media discrimination against women.  Marshall also authors the Occupy Patriarchy website which was begun in the fall of 2011 to address the issues of misogyny and women’s rights within the Occupy movement.  Occupy Patriarchy is a project of the Feminist Peace Network.

In the summer of 2008 she was the Guest Editor for an issue of the feminist journal off our backs which, at Marshall’s request, was dedicated to women’s visions of peace. She solicited essays from women throughout the world—ranging from Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams to a group of women at a trauma center in the Democratic Republic of Congo—bringing together more than 20 voices from 10 countries.

She has also been interviewed on numerous shows, including KPFK’s Uprising, The Jeff Farias Show, Mike Malloy, KPFA Morning Show, Sky News and the BBC.

In addition to the Feminist Peace Network blog, Marshall also authors her own blog, Reclaiming Medusa at LucindaMarshall.com and her work is frequently republished on numerous other sites. She is a former columnist for the Louisville Eccentric Observer and has been active in numerous community social justice issues. She also authors Pre-Existing Pundit, a blog about the issue of portability in the individual health insurance market.

Lucinda Marshall is a sought after speaker and commentator.  You can learn more about recent and upcoming presentations here. To arrange for an interview or to book her for a panel or as a speaker, please email her at LucindaMarshall @ feministpeacenetwork.org.

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The following is a partial list of articles and essays by Lucinda Marshall, for a more complete list, please click here:

• Archetype of Darkness: Re-Visioning Faith, The
• Behind Closed Doors: The Invisibility of Domestic Violence
• Betraying Iraqi Women
• Booby Trap: Does Breast Cancer Awareness Save Lives? A Call to Re-think the Pink, The
• Breast Cancer Sells
• CIA Document Calls For Using Afghan Women As Messengers To Humanize The War
• Climate Talks:  Quotes from Women in Copenhagen, The
• Connection Between Militarism and Violence Against Women, The
• Deadly Profits of Misogynist Medicine, The
• Deep-Sexing the News
• Delusion and Exclusion: The Harm that Occurs When Women are Under- and Mis-Represented
• Family Planning For The Planet a.k.a. Population Control–Disingenuous Patriarchy That Does Not Empower Women
  
• Franken Amendment Step Towards Ending Military’s Culture of  Impunity Regarding Sexual Assault, More Needed
• Geena in 2008
• Handmaid’s Tale Comes To Life, The
• Hillary Clinton’s Dangerous Defense Of Afghan Women
• Honoring the Lives of Women Requires More than Lipservice
• In the Spirit of Lysistrata
• Is Betty Ugly
• International Women’s Day: Honoring the Lives of Women in Perilous Times
• International Women’s Day 2007: We Stand With the Women of the World
• Involuntary Motherhood
• Kathleen Parker’s Duke Rant Misses the Point
• Lynching of Cynthia McKinney, The
• Making the HPV Vaccine Mandatory is Bad Medicine
• Making Women’s Health an International Priority
• Matricidal Tendencies
• Media Exclusion of Women Impedes Meaningful Reform
• Misogynist Undercurrents of Abu Ghraib, The
• Missing in Action: The Peace Movement’s Silence on the Impact of War on Women
• Mother’s Day Manifesto
• Nightmare of Coathangers Revisited, The
• No More Excuse Notes from God: Deconstructing the Religious Imperative of Patriarchy
• No More Women’s Unhealthy Healthcare
• (Not) in the News: Media Culpability in the
  Continuum of Violence Against Women
• Penis Politics
• Nurturing Our Future: One Mother’s Reflections
• Oily Logic Of Right Wing ‘Family Values’, The
• Our Lives are Worse Now: Yanar Mohammed Talks about the Impact of the U.S. Occupation on the Lives of Iraqi Women
• Rape in the U.S. Military
• Reclaiming the Paradigm
• Reproductive Health Concerns In The Aftermath Of The Gulf Oil Disaster
• Reproductive Rights: The Conversation We Should Be Having
• Seeing Red about Thinking Pink
• Sell-Abrating Motherhood
• Sexist Backlash Against Gender-Responsive Aid in Haiti Shows Some Men Really Don’t Get It
• Silencing Women on the Internet
• Thank You Alice: A Meditation for the Winter Solstice
• The “Other” Terrorism:  Militarism And Violence Against Women
• Unacceptable: The Impact of War on Women and Children
• U.S. Actions Do Little to Alleviate the Plight of Women in Iraq and Afghanistan
• Urgent Need to Fully Fund VAWA, The
• War Chic
• We Stand with the Women of the World: IWD 2007
• Were Women Raped I New Orleans: Addressing the Human Rights of Women in Times of Crisis
• What Mothers Really Want
• What She Wore: the Prevalence of Gender Bias in Reporting
• What Women are Saying about Violence in the Middle East
• Who Gave Lynndie The Leash? The Scapegoating of Private England
• Whore-ifying Impact of Media Misogyny, The
• Why Male Military Veterans are Committing Sexual Assault at Alarming Rates
• Women’s Equality Day
• Women’s Lives:  The Misogynist Football in the Healthcare Debate

Her work can also be found offline in the following books and magazines:

• The Essential Hip Mama Anthology (Ariel Gore ed.)
• One of the Guys (Tara McKelvey ed.)
• Current Controversies: Vaccines
• Women and Peace issue of Off Our Backs Magazine (Guest Editor)