Sure the election is over, but Emily Heist Moss still worries that she’ll have to spend the rest of her life defending her rights. It’s over. For a while, I managed to hold it together. There was pie to eat and wine to drink and a couch to sink gratefully into. There were friends to […]
Why push for marriage reform when the institution of marriage itself only reinforces patriarchal norms, asks Jenn Leyva? On Sunday, The New York Times published an article opining that the end of marriage will be bad for women and girls. Oh, so we’re saving women and girls now. Our culture is saturated with misogyny, and […]
In a letter to her future great-grandchildren, Lynn Beisner recalls the day she and the nation made history by voting the first black President into office. To my dear great-grandchildren, I don’t know what stories have filtered down to you. I imagine they’re stories of my sometimes outrageous feistiness or of my unorthodox way of […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Seeking Love? Find Strength in Numbers by Rachel L. Swarns of The New York Times says to embrace all of the men in your orbit, new gurus say, whether they text or G-Chat, whether they’re […]
Emily Heist Moss asks: Are we obligated to reject our socialization? One of my favorite yoga teachers has this routine she does at the beginning of class. We are all in tadasana, waiting for instructions. This is not a hard posture; it’s basically just standing up with your arms raised and paying a little extra […]
Because we, as a nation, have made the wrong political choices, the Christian Right believes God is now punishing us, says Lynn Beisner. There were two things I knew for sure when I read the forecasts for Hurricane Sandy: First, my elderly dog would insist on being let outside to pee even if the winds […]
Judith Rosenbaum explains why “breast cancer awareness” is simply not enough. Though I’ve never had breast cancer, I think it’s fair to say the disease has shaped my life. My mother was diagnosed at age 32, when I was 5 years old; she battled the disease for 33 years before dying of her sixth recurrence […]
Are abortion rights and gay marriage trivial enough issues to be set aside for the sake of a friendship? Election day can’t get here soon enough. It’s not just that millions of Americans (and hundreds of millions around the world) are anxious to find out whether Barack Obama will get a second term or if […]
