Ali Smith

Ali Smith is a photographer whose passion is exploring the lives of women. Her first book, "Laws of the Bandit Queens", was released by Random House and celebrated 35 incredible, groundbreaking women who influenced her in her career and personal goals, including Alice Walker, Sandra Bernhard and Geraldine Ferraro. Please check out her personal blog at http://alismith.com/blog/

Ali is currently working on a book called "The Mother Half" which is an exploration of the reality of how women are living their lives as mothers, and a look at the varying degrees of support they are getting.

Ali has taught photography in NYC public schools, has lectured and shown her work at NYU and the International Center of Photography, has exhibited internationally, including at ICP, Milk Studios and Sandbox Studios, and has had editorial run in numerous magazines internationally.

She lives in NYC with her son and husband.

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Realistic & Fair Wages

April 14, 2012

I've turned a deaf ear to the constant news about this "controversy" because I try to avoid getting too involved in faux controversies created by political strategists. I just wanted to say one thing. If people are going to use phrases like " Stay at home mothers are working," then they're going to have to back that assertion up with their votes or the policies. Otherwise it's lip service. They're going to have to change social constructs to ensure that stay-at-home moms aren't drifting into poverty in the way and in the numbers that they currently are. That they aren't staying in harmful...

MomsRising Together

Environmental Health

December 24, 2011

I’ve always had what seemed to me to be a healthy mistrust of the outside world. I grew up in New York City in the 1970’s, an era often thought of as “Woody Allen’s New York”, where neurosis reigned supreme and everything was the color brown. Through therapy, philosophy studies and meditation, I’ve been working on quelling those fears and mistrusts of the outside world in favor of a little peace of mind. Nowhere has this change in my outlook been more challenged than in the realm of motherhood. I do feel that in the contract I signed when I birthed this little life changer was a commitment to...

MomsRising Together

December 7, 2011

Today I discovered the most amazing game I can play with my two-year-old son. It’s called “Me Fall Down Too” and here’s how it goes. My son throws himself down on the floor and says “Me fall down!” Then I throw myself down on the floor and I say “Me fall down too!” And here’s the genius part. I can sometimes close my eyes for up to 10 seconds at a time while I’m lying there! If I can manage to gently pin him under me when I fall down, it's possible to extend that 10 to a luxurious 15 or even 20 seconds! But I know it’s a foolish pipe dream to hope for those kinds of results consistently...

MomsRising Together

November 11, 2011

My friend’s husband did, the other day, what to me sounds like the undoable. He got up at 4:30 in the morning, ate breakfast, and then ran 26 miles non-stop. The fact that there were hundreds of others alongside him running in the NYC Marathon doesn’t make it seem any more possible in my mind. I get winded running 26 feet. As my friend told me proudly of her husband’s accomplishment, the two of us couldn’t help but be inspired by this personal triumph. A type 1 diabetic, he had trained and prepared for months, hoping to finish the run in less than four hours, and finally completing it-...

MomsRising Together

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Me Fall Down Too!!

Man Gives Birth During NYC Marathon