Morra Aarons-Mele

Welcome to my website. I blog at BlogHer.com, HuffingtonPost.com, and TechPresident.com.

“I think you can care about shoes, and still be a really strong woman.”

Hat tip to Susan Mernit quoting food blogger Pim Techamuanvivit, speaking at BlogHer. Case in point: I have huge feet, size 13. I cannot tell you how many powerful women I've instantly connected to over our large foot size. It's like we're a band of Amazon sistersSHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "“I think ...

Idolsize Me!

Yeah right. Read on... Ann Hornaday from the Washington Post hits the nail on the head. Idolspizing should not be an unfamilar emotion to any red-blooded woman. I, for example, idolspize most everyone I meet when in New York or LA, or certainly at the rare DC cushy media event to which ...

Feminism must have humor

Traditionally, we've lacked irony and all that, no? From the Onion: SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Feminism must have humor", url: "http://womenandwork.org/2006/02/22/feminism-must-have-humor/" });

My Conservative Friends

I hate hate hate their politics. They hate everything I think I stand for...but they are funny. Their humor is light...dare I say it's because they're in power? http://www.ontapblog.com/ when's the last time a D blog was funny...or light?SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "My Conservative Friends", url: "http://womenandwork.org/2006/02/16/my-conservative-friends/" });

Proof that the Earth is Warming

Damn, my Mom is cool (she sent this)SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Proof that the Earth is Warming", url: "http://womenandwork.org/2006/02/15/proof-that-the-earth-is-warming/" });

NARAL’s Day of Prevention

I am not the closest follower of choice politics, but this is a newer approach. Prevention-focused, we all band together to stop abortions.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "NARAL’s Day of Prevention", url: "http://womenandwork.org/2006/02/11/narals-day-of-prevention/" });

Deep Listening, Loving Speech

Repeat every day. Repeat after bad meetings, before filing taxes. Repeat. Four themes: Mindful. Wondrous. Loving. Voice of the world regarded. Listen. Hear. Don't scan. Aware of the suffering caused by unmindful speech and the ...

Breadth of technology

I'm sitting in a room of brilliant technologists. I am overwhelmed and overstimulated at the same time (now, I can go to Sephora or Neiman Marcus, look at 100 lipsticks, and feel pure joy). But the sheer sense of the opportunity that technology delivers is stunning. A natural healer came to ...

Rick Warren takes on Global Warming

I'm not an evangelical (heck, I'm not even Christian) but I really respect Rick Warren. I am slowly reading The Purpose Driven Life. And today, when I read about the group of evangelical pastors who are storming Washington, DC to attempt to curb global warming, I said a Hallelujah: "For most of ...

It broke

This is a dead longhorn skull, brought to DC from the great wide West. Not surprisingly, it broke when it hit K St. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "It broke", url: "http://womenandwork.org/2006/02/07/it-broke/" });

I'm Speaking at BlogHer 08

About Me

Morra Aarons has worked for nearly ten years on online campaigns for politics, advocacy groups, and corporate entities. She specializes in mobilizing women online. In addition, she studies the field of work redesign and works with clients to better manage life and work. In her spare time, Morra enjoys blogging about women and politics. She lives near Boston with her husband Nicco, dog Rascal, and cat Uno.


Morra Aarons-Mele


August 7th 2008
Tags: Feminism, Internet Media, Politics

It’s the new McCain: Titty jokes and Bush smirks

Cross-posted from the Huffington Post From Politico: "...at a biker rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, John McCain appears to have volunteered his wife for a topless beauty pageant: McCain felt so comfortable at the event that he even volunteered his wife for the rally's traditional beauty pageant, an infamously debauched event that's been ...
July 21st 2008
Tags: Feminism, Internet Media, Psychology

What I learned from (hot chick on Wired magazine cover) Julia Allison

What kind of ambition drives a woman to appear in a glamour shot on the cover of a nerd magazine under the caption, “Become Internet famous (even if you’re nobody)…Julia Allison and the secrets of self-promotion.” Did you all see the recent Wired cover with Julia Allison? Women on Wired ...
July 20th 2008
Tags: Uncategorized

Cobbler has no shoes

My website is in a bad place. I know. I'm in a major transition: career, life stage. And thus, the site is in flux, my bio's in flux, all is flux. I will soon have a lovely, frequently updated site. Until then, remember me fondly and read me elsewhere!SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: ...
June 28th 2008
Tags: Politics

Zimbabwe’s dead as Mugabe prepares to assume the “throne”

The Chicago Tribune has a very moving article. Mugabe's people have been killing members of the opposition party and we worry about our presidential candidates making poor jokes...  Kalyn sent me these links from Field to Feast, an African food blog- a post from April with hope: "A week ago today, the ...
June 26th 2008
Tags: Feminism, Politics, Work

Morra on the guardian.co.uk

First weekly column is up today... When it comes to marriage, the more things change, the less things change. In a society where mothers who work full-time still do twice the amount of housework and even more childcare hours as working fathers, the idea that Dad would give up his career ...