Marcia Belsky is a New York City-based stand-up comedian, writer and musician.

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Marcia Belsky is the creator of "The Headless Women of Hollywood," a blog that seeks to bring attention to the still standard practice of fragmenting, fetishizing and dehumanizing the images of women we see in film and TV and on book covers and advertisements. She cowrote Handmaid's Tale: The Musical and her musical comedy was featured on Comedy Central's Taking The Stage.

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What Now … for health and happiness? Notes from Session 2 of TEDWomen 2021

December 2, 2021

For Session 2 of TEDWomen 2021, seven speakers shared ideas and insights on everything from mental health and family structures to how to uplift personal and collective dignity. The event: TEDWomen 2021: Session 2, hosted by TED’s head of curation Helen Walters in Palm Springs, California on December 2, 2021 Speakers: Charles C. Daniels, Jr., […]

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