Don’t Resist: Resist!
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt. ~Audre Lorde Hey y’all, thank you so much for all the incredibly thoughtful comments on my first two posts. (For those just now hopping on board, they are here and here — the first one, which has my comment guidelines, might [...]
...read moreAustralia’s First Female Prime Minister
After a successful leadership challenge this morning, Julia Gillard is now Australia’s first female prime minister! Not only that, but Gillard is left-wing even by Australian standards, with a strong background in the trade union movement. Perhaps even more surprising to American readers used to politicians talking about their “families” in politics might be the [...]
...read moreWhere Are My Keys I Lost My Phone
So this is kind of a post about ADD, ish. Ish because, I’m not an ADD expert – I’m not even a psych major – and I can’t give anyone any kind of official perspective or information about ADD. Which, normally this would never stop me, but here I’m like, a guest in the house [...]
...read moreHotel rooms are where all the best sex happens anyways.
To everyone who’s been leaving their stories in the comments, thank you so much. They’re all so different — some are heartbreaking, some are funny, some are blase, and all are definitely worth the read. I know a lot of you have been talking about how inaccurate the idea of virginity is, and how it [...]
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Happy Title IX Day!
On June 23, 1972, Title IX was enacted in the United States. Title IX requires that education institutions receiving federal funds not discriminate on the basis of gender. It applies to a range of practices, but has been most controversial in college sports. Before Title IX, few opportunities existed for female athletes. The National Collegiate [...]
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Bits and Pieces
Animal Cruelty Syndrome: How abusing animals overlaps and intersects with abuse of human beings. Men who abuse women particularly do harm to animals as a way of exerting control over their human victims, and children who grow up in abusive houses may also abuse or kill animals in an effort to gain control over their [...]
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