Run Like a Girl: Reflections on Gym Class, Title IX, & the US Women’s Soccer World Cup Victory (video)
The recent World Cup victory by the US women’s national soccer team collided in my brain today with my upcoming 50th high school reunion to conjure up a mixed bag … Continue reading
Sexism in America: Peggy Olson, Hillary Clinton, Mom & Me
Beyond the booze, the babes, the cool, retro clothes, and the slick mid-century modern Madison Avenue backdrop, AMC’s Mad Men is a story about office work and sexism at the dawn … Continue reading
Feminism, Socialism, Hillary, & Bernie
While many American progressives swoon over Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders’ laundry list of economic reforms– like free college education, taxing the rich, and redistributing the wealth– others support the progressive … Continue reading
Who Won the Dem Debate? Hillary Clinton! (video)
I’m a progressive, but I’m a progressive who likes to get things done. I know how to find common ground, but I know how to stand my ground. – Hillary … Continue reading
Stop the Beauty Madness: Ad Campaign Challenges ‘Beauty’ Myths & Stereotypes
I am a real woman, with a real woman’s body– not the body of an 11-year-old boy. I am a Renaissance nude trapped in a Twiggy world. I am Everywoman. For the … Continue reading
Abortion, Drugs, Charter Schools, & Private Prisons: Is It All about Race, Money, & Power?
Right-wing strategies baffle me, when I attempt to analyze them in the aggregate. “Regressives” simultaneously hold so many seemingly conflicting beliefs that I often wonder: Where are they going with … Continue reading