Sally Ride may have been the first American woman in space, but everyone can find inspiration from her story, not just young girls. Earlier this week, the first woman to go to space, Sally Ride, died from pancreatic cancer. I thought a lot about her death as I wandered around the Global Village at the […]
Melissa Byrne is happy to see a woman in charge at a Fortune 500 company, but does not agree with Marissa Mayer’s support of Wal-Mart, which she says is known for exploiting its workers. I think its is easy for us to agree, especially those who identify as female, that it is still hard to […]
Recently, I suffered a pretty devastating loss. A guy friend of mine suggested that “I get drunk and fuck” while my gal friends kept reassuring me that “it was OK to cry.” The media portrays women suffering losses as stuffing their faces with the trendy flavor of Ben and Jerry’s. As I move through this […]
I’ve been wrestling with the intersection of gender and the Occupy movement since I saw a picture of topless women dancing in Zuccotti Park during week two of Occupy Wall Street. The prominent display of this photograph on one of the Occupy websites angered me, as did the shallowness of equating activism to the hippie period […]
Yesterday, I was running late for a meeting in downtown Washington DC when I saw a homeless man lying on the street with his hands down his pants, appearing to do things that should be done in private. I found a female police officer and mentioned the man to her, also noting that he needed […]
