Shame. It may be the single most corrosive force of our time. When my husband and I were in our final year of the MFA program where we met, we were each responsible for producing a book-length thesis. Jason and I had started dating in our first year and moved in together quickly, realizing that […]
We need to offer women a full spectrum view of what might happen to their future children — not showcase a skewed sample of positive individual experiences. As a pro-choice mother to an eight-year-old boy with Down syndrome, I consider a woman’s choice and reasoning related to abortion to be her business alone. Women who receive a prenatal […]
Despite all evidence to the contrary, all talks of privilege, all facts and statistics, many Americans still believe that if someone is struggling economically, they are morally suspect and should somehow work harder. Whether citizens of the United States will admit it or not, we are in the midst of a great delusion about class and income […]
