When women’s rights are under attack, we don’t spend our evenings eating dinner with family or studying for school or watching TV or any of the innumerable things we’d rather be doing with our time. We fight back. Six hours. That’s how long I sat in a stuffy county council chamber a few Tuesdays ago, […]
“It’s like the woman has to be in the dark until the burden of the work comes along.” “I hate this whole idea that everything has to be a surprise,” a friend recently told me. We were talking about proposals, specifically hers. It hadn’t been a surprise; she and her then-boyfriend had discussed getting engaged. […]
Maybe we didn’t know better in 1991; I certainly didn’t. But we know better now and there’s no excuse left for taking the coward’s way out. Since news broke of California professor Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her during a party when they were both in high school, […]
Ask any woman about her experiences with pain and the healthcare industry, and you’re likely to hear stories like mine. It was only an hour after I took the first antibiotic pill for a sinus infection that I knew something was wrong. I was lying on the couch reading when I suddenly had the urge […]
She’s been both the victim and the victimizer. And while pundits argue that she should no longer be believed about Weinstein, the simple fact is victimizers are often victims. Italian actress Asia Argento was one of the first women to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct, and she’s become a leading figure in the #MeToo […]
Don’t tell me my dress looks good on me between the hours of nine to five. “I’ll sit at the back, next to her. She’s got the best legs in here!” an older male colleague joked, as he filed into the crowded meeting room and took a seat beside me. There are many other places […]
There’s nothing like calling a woman of color a “dog” to prove you’re not a racist. Politics makes strange bedfellows, and many of us are finding ourselves in the uncomfortable position of siding with Omarosa Manigault Newman since she was called a “crazed, crying lowlife” and a “dog” by Donald Trump on Twitter. Trump’s tweetstorm […]
Knowing a few compulsive liars over the course of my life has taught me some things. Living during Trump’s presidency has reinforced them. Here are my best tips for understanding and dealing with “alternative facts,” whomever they come from. Donald Trump lies, as my great aunt would say, “when the truth would suit him better.” […]
