The evening’s theme was ‘China: Into The Looking Glass,’ so where were all the Chinese designers on the red carpet? “Where were all the Chinese designers?” This great question was asked by Caroly Asame in her analysis of the dresses worn by patrons at the Metropolitan Museum’s annual gala. Like many of us, Asame thought that […]
Is our mass desensitization to domestic and sexual violence in sports the new normal? “You know what’s interesting?” my cousin asks over a basket of nachos at our favorite Mexican restaurant. “What?” “I’ve been thinking about all the athletes accused of domestic violence,” he says. It’s September 2014 and the second Ray Rice video—the one of […]
Hey, white people: When you find yourself in a room full of people who look like you, be the person to say, “We’re all white here. Don’t you think that’s a little weird?” As events in Ferguson, Los Angeles, Baltimore, all over this country will show, racism is alive and strong in this country. There […]
Money helps you make the judgment call for essentials versus desires. But when your funds are zero, everything is as equally unattainable as it is up for grabs. “First the food, then the morality.” — Bertolt Brecht When my 13-year-old son came home from school on Thursday and saw me watching news clips about the […]
The old folks used to sing “We Shall Overcome.” They used to believe it, too. And we will. Writers are supposed to help us make sense of the world. They take our deepest emotions and most intense feelings, and help them make sense. But I don’t know how to make sense of the last few days, […]
Winning the argument on same-sex marriage would bring us one step closer to unveiling the whole truth: that opposite-sex marriage is, in fact, the emperor with no clothes, neither ensuring the existence or economic stability of two-parent homes. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments for and against the legal protection of same-sex marriage. During the […]
The preening, posing, and questions of “who are you wearing?” already perpetuate Hollywood’s ongoing quest to objectify women. To bring this sideshow to Washington is a problem. Early on in our marriage my husband and I started to block off one Saturday in April to cook a special dinner together, crack open a bottle of […]
Bruce (among others before him) has brought light once again to a marginalized and misunderstood group of our fellow human beings, and for that, we owe him a debt of gratitude. Bruce Jenner, 65, the gold medal decathlete from the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the famous patriarch from reality TV, is transitioning into […]
