Archive

Let’s talk about the Power of the Pussy. Girl power! Creators of life! Nurturers of the Universe! Formidable Forces of the World! Oh, there is nothing we can’t do!!! Except, maybe believe that narrative. Since, according to 2016, women seem to have trouble supporting a female president, let’s start looking at why. Yes, we may […]

I am developing curriculum for a class on intimacy and relationships and I tried out one of the pieces with my students at school this week. If I was going to talk about developing deep and rich friendships, I thought we first needed to unpack some of our baggage.  So I start my first lesson […]

I am in grad school now and I love everything about it.  Well, almost everything… There is a part of academia that just really loves itself.  It loves creating a scholarly tribe where the price of admission is knowledge, and the unspoken wage is a feeling of superiority (over those who do not yet know). Of […]

I have seen a number of articles recently claiming that when boys tease and become physically aggressive with girls, it is because the boy likely has a crush on the girl.  These articles say that we are setting girls up to equate love with abuse. We are romanticizing these interactions and victim-blaming the girl in […]

In a world where women need to smile constantly, as a creepy little tax to simply live in the word, I have a daughter who is just not having it. This is my daughter Boo, as Dorothy, when she was 8. You know, kind of like a “Don’t Fuck With Me” Dorothy. She is not […]

If you put a lobster in a pot with tepid water and gradually increase temperature, the lobster will be lulled into a sense of security and not realize it is slowly being suffocated to death. Abusive relationships are a lot like that. I am now coming to terms with the realization that I spent over […]

RBF Resting. Bitch. Face. This is a real thing. It is not a particularly nice thing to say about someone – or really, even a thing that needs to be said at all. Seriously, why is this even a thing that is commented upon? It says resting right in the title – being concerned about […]

In the mid-1990s Planned Parenthood was a crazy place. An anti-abortionist had gunned down the Brookline, MA office, killing two, injuring another and the anti-abortion protests were becoming so plentiful and frequent – they would often shut down the street. And of course, I was right there living in the middle of it all. Everyday […]

(just kidding – same old shit…) I am a feminist who usually considers Barbie to be a pretty good role model. Sure, she has proportions that in real life would not allow her tiny neck to hold up her enormous head, or accommodate full sized organs – but aren’t we in favor of representing unique […]