Everyone pees. Everyone poops. And women have periods. The movie Period. End of Sentence. won an Oscar on Sunday night. The film was created by Oakwood High School (California) students. They also founded a nonprofit organization called The Pad Project which targets the stigma of menstruation. The movie begins in a rural village outside of […]
If you value diversity, you have to appreciate the effort this year. The 2019 Oscars managed to avoid most of the problems people usually complain about. Given how many awards they present, a long show is unavoidable, but the pace this year seemed positively snappy, with more than one winner getting played off the stage […]
I graduated pretty sure I wasn’t racist or sexist, but also pretty sure that most of history’s great literature was created by white men. Of all the details in all the videos I’ve watched and all the articles I’ve read about the boys from Covington Catholic High School and the March for Life, the one […]
Once it was over, the night’s importance was hard to miss. In most ways, it, like much of the last year, belonged to women. Next time someone complains about the length of the Oscars telecast, please refer them to the 2019 Grammy Awards. Clocking in at just over twenty-three years, the Grammys overstayed their welcome […]
Many of us feel perfectly whole without children — our lives are full and busy enough. The fertility rate in the United States has hit a 30-year low, falling to 60.3 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age. For those of us concerned about overpopulation, this may not seem like overly alarming news. Unfortunately, a […]
Because survivors aren’t masked superheroes: They’re humans. Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa recently discussed her experiences of rape and domestic violence in heartbreaking detail. It was a stark reminder that women, no matter how powerful or successful they may be, are still at risk of gender-based violence. It was also a reminder that sexual assault […]
Every attack on the rights and liberties of transgender people makes us struggle to find a reason to live. Five minutes ago, I threw my drumsticks across the room. Feeling defeated, I abandoned any hope of actually enjoying playing today. I am now sitting at my computer and feeling disgruntled as I type. I wish […]
She reminds me to breathe and feel the weight of my own body, to cement my space in the universe. Her words are a means of recalibrating. Her poems are restorative. Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift. – […]
