By deeming Jason Collins the first openly gay athlete in a major American team sport, what is Sports Illustrated really saying? Twitter was an irksome site to visit on Monday. It wasn’t for anything that was specific to Twitter’s function as a site, but rather something that hung amid the top trending topics that was […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Hasbro Makes An Easy-Bake Oven For Boys by Hanna Rosin of Slate.com says when some companies are called out for being small-minded or bigoted, they get even more small-minded and stupid. Others do the right thing. […]
Is it possible to prefer dating people of a certain ethnicity without making assumptions of an entire race? For all the good value that comes with friendship, perhaps the most dubious quality is comfort. Someone who won’t judge you when you need to lean on them during difficult times, a companion who will have dinner […]
In a letter to her future great-grandchildren, Lynn Beisner recalls the day she and the nation made history by voting the first black President into office. To my dear great-grandchildren, I don’t know what stories have filtered down to you. I imagine they’re stories of my sometimes outrageous feistiness or of my unorthodox way of […]
Abortion is not to be taken lightly, Michelle says, but the GOP ticket stands so firmly against it because they don’t know what it’s like to have their rights taken away from them. If Paul Ryan had his way, I would now have a child in high school. Assuming that child made it to high […]
Emily Heist Moss explores the difference between equal opportunity and equal outcome, saying Romney faked a fair and balanced cabinet without addressing the reasons he needed “binders of women” in the first place. In Tuesday’s Presidential debate, during a question about the state of women in America, Governor Romney described his tenure as Massachusetts governor […]
Writing about—and recognizing—privilege can be productive, says Patrick McNeil. I went through a Women’s Studies graduate program. And I’m a man. And this is difficult for some people to conceptualize. That there is a place at all for men in feminism is difficult for some people, too. On a post I recently published on Feministe, […]
Saying your looks have opened doors for you sounds narcissistic, but not acknowledging the privilege your looks provide you is unfair and foolish. So what do you do? I’m a good-looking man. Those are dangerous, provocative, stupefyingly narcissistic words with which to begin an essay. They open me up to ridicule, to the mocking accusation […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Who Needs Casual Sex by Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon.com says after spending much of her 20s hooking up, she’s shocked to find that traditional courtship is pretty great. 2. Why Stacey Dash’s Looks—Not Her Race—Matter […]
Was Obama reacting to past trauma during his poor performance at last night’s Presidential debate? There have been many explanations offered for Obama’s poor performance last night, everything from overconfidence to altitude sickness. One of the most astute observations I have read about Obama’s demeanor last night came from Ann Lamont who in her Facebook […]
Originally appeared on Alternet.org. Republished here with permission. The First Lady and Secretary Rice show us what’s possible for black women and girls. For the first time, both the RNC and the DNC had black women as primetime speakers during their respective conventions—former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the RNC and First Lady Michelle […]
Originally appeared in On The Issues Magazine. Republished here with permission. One highlight of Election Day 2012: voters in Maryland, Washington, and Maine deciding, with their ballots, whether people in same-sex relationships will be allowed to marry. Black voters in those states—especially Maryland, which is nearly one-third African-American—may need to take cover. We know about […]
