Heading Toward Menopause, Still Caring About Abortion
By Andrea Plaid, cross-posted at On The Issues Magazine I’m not an aberration because I’m a childless, employed, divorced, college-educated Black cisgender woman — regardless of what the promulgated stereotypes undergirding the media stories about women like me say. At this point in my life — I’m in my early 40s –I’m drumming my fingers [...]
...read moreTeenagers: Way More Boring Than We All Thought
It turns out that teenagers are not even sexting that much. Ugh, teenagers. Don’t you know that adults’ lives are so horrifyingly boring that we have to occupy ourselves by harping on you young, adventurous things doing stupid crap like sending each other nudie pics with your fancy portable telephones? I just retired my flip-phone [...]
...read moreKids These Days.
Everyone should read this very excellent piece by Edith Zimmerman. I guess this may all just be a roundabout way of saying, “I saw something that made me feel old, isn’t that crazy?” To which you say, “No,” and also maybe, “That song sounds terrible.” Then again, the Internet is a new kind of barometer [...]
...read moreMarriage, Singledom, Social Evolution, and that Kate Bolick piece in “The Atlantic”
Okay, so. Since I am a Feminist Commentator ™, many folks have asked my opinion on a piece that recently ran in “The Atlantic” called “All The Single Ladies“, by Kate Bolick. Many of you have probably already seen Bolick’s piece — I’ve got a roundup of a few relevant links and snips at the [...]
...read moreIn defense of children
I was going to have a different post for you today but it’s been one of those days where I keep getting my Outrage Button jabbed so I’m going to have to write about child rights instead. This morning I woke up to a three year old who had just brushed her teeth and gotten [...]
...read moreWhen the Movement Disappoints
I moved to Brooklyn from Philadelphia almost a year ago. My partner got his dream job here, so I left my decent reproductive health gig to live in the feminist mecca. I had high hopes – almost every major feminist and/or reproductive health organization has a presence in NYC. Surely, I thought, it will take [...]
...read moreOn having been a teenage writer
As Cara kindly mentioned, I had a birthday in November. It was my twentieth. So, in making a break with my teen years, I want to talk about what this means socially, and particularly as regards my writing work. I’ve been struggling with this post since October, and I feel a bit self-indulgent doing this. [...]
...read moreshorter, cuter, more honest people
you do not have a right to child free spaces. there is this weird thing in western culture, especially n american culture, where people/adults seem to believe that they have a right to discriminate against children. recently, i was hanging out at a bar, when a friend called and invited me to come hang out [...]
...read moreMiddle Ground
This article by Caitlin Flanagan has been thoroughly dissected by other feminist writers, but of course I have to throw in my two cents. Flanagan, for the unfamiliar, is somewhat obsessed with the sex lives of teenage girls, and particularly with teenage blow-jobs. In her latest article, she argues that teenage girls are rebelling against [...]
...read moreClay and Harold: A Couple Forcibly Separated By Sonoma County
Recently making the rounds is a breathtakingly tragic story of an elderly gay couple that Sonoma County, California allegedly forcibly separated into different nursing homes, before possessing and selling off their property. It’s an incredibly upsetting story, so please be aware of that when making the decision to read further. From the National Center for [...]
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