We have spent several decades trying to undo the pernicious syndrome that blamed the victim for these attacks… but our attempts falter when common sense is thrown to the wind.
Blog Posts on Politics
Witch Hunt
Even in writing this piece, I am affected by the anxiety that grips all of us who write about contentious matters.
Mr. Trump
We need to be alert, this strange campaign season, to the way language is being distorted, subtly, to convey certain points of view.
When We Fight We Win
The presence, the faces, and the words of the Navajo were themselves living images, engraving on my mind the urgency of a cause I’ve known about for years but never felt personally.
Horrors
It is not too late for us women to wake up and realize what a woman president could do for all of us.
Colorado Springs: Black Friday
When deranged individuals receive permission for their deranged acts from irresponsible political groups and irresponsible demagogues, why are we unable or unwilling to make the connection?
Pussy Riot and the Threat to Women in the U.S. Today
We are perhaps naïve if we believe that women in the U. S. are free of danger, especially young women who are expected to belong to young men.
Ferguson On My Mind
It’s awkward, to say the least, for a privileged white woman like me to even attempt to touch the subject of racism; yet we are sometimes the women who knows its effects most intimately. Many of us were raised by a black woman and realized the limits put on their love for us when our mothers told them to stop kissing us and to add “Miss” to our first names. For me, that strange change marked my entrance into adolescence.
A Different Kind of Memorial Day
As a way to celebrate next Memorial Day, why not spend an hour asking at your favorite store whether they carry anything made in the U.S.A.?
The High Cost of High Fashion
We are not powerless. One of the great moments in the history of The Civil Rights Movement―April 11th, 1970―occurred when African-Americans in Atlanta boycotted Rich’s Department Store where traditionally they spent a lot of money buying Easter suits and hats.