The truth is that, as women, there are just so many dirty old men out there that if we called the cops on every single one we would never stop calling the cops. I was still in bed when the phone rang. “Oh my god I’m so freaked out. It was terrible! Just terrible! I’m […]
I’m not sure I’ve ever been in the explicit position of being denied something because I don’t believe in God…until now. When the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) changed their rules to allow gay scout leaders last summer I was cautiously elated. As the mother of a 9-year-old boy who would enjoy and benefit from a scouting […]
My son was Darth Vader for Halloween and I told him with zero irony that when I was his age I would have killed another child for a costume as realistic as his. My first day of kindergarten I wore brown Darth Vader Stride Rites. It was 1980 and for some reason our Stride Rite […]
If none of these new stories, none of these videos, none of these cries for help makes you hear the voices of people you know and love yourself, makes you sad for another mother’s child, then you are the problem. For over a year now the abuse of black and brown bodies has filled up […]
Standing for “heritage, not hate” means nothing when that heritage is hate. “Are you a Yankee or a Rebel!?” a kid I’d never seen in my life yelled loudly in my face as I walked up the steps of the bus to find my seat. My mother had decided I needed to go to day […]
