Don’t you think it’s magnificent? A kind of splendid behavior really. A trusting of the future, a daring kind of love. Isn’t it, in a way, splendid? – Catherine Heath Catherine Heath […]
Catherine Heath’s Behaving Badly: the novel in its time…
Moment of #Mansplanation
Actually… I just had a chance to read this op/ed from last year’s NYT: What makes a woman? The subject is still timely, especially thanks to hijinks like those coming out of […]
The Slants, or Washington’s NFL team, might soon go to SCOTUS over their names
By Amber Healy Just as The Slants prepare to release a new album with a new singer, it might be time to prepare to face the U.S. Supreme Court. Sadly, this won’t […]
Joanie Laurer, RIP: the sports entertainment machine spits out another dead body
#RIPChyna – former WWE superstar becomes the latest victim of an industry where people are disposable and life is cheap (because that’s what’s best for business) I woke to the news this […]
I don’t like Hillary Clinton. Does that mean I’m a sexist?
Sweeping misogyny charges by Clinton supporters are insulting, corrosive, patronizing and counter-productive. An all-too-common theme we hear from supporters of Hillary Clinton is that the opposition to her results from misogyny. Sometimes […]
Charlotte should secede from North Carolina
PayPal, the NBA and Bruce Springsteen are well-intentioned, but they’re punishing the wrong people. I have a solution. By now you know all about North Carolina’s appalling HB2 – “the bathroom law” […]
Al Jolson, champion in the battle for racial justice: Scholars & Rogues Honors…
by Jon Epstein It is not surprising that there have been some listeners that assume that the HayMarket Riot band logo is in some way an offense to American minorities due to […]
Review: Constance Fenimore Woolson’s “Miss Grief Misguided”
There’s no gentle way to put this: the best thing Constance Fenimore Woolson could have done for her writing career was keep the hell away from Henry James…. As I mentioned a […]
Racism: are we all having the same conversation?
No, and as with so many of our wedge issues, that’s a fundamental problem Cracked posted a fine article that makes the case quite well. From my humble position of privilege, I’ll […]
If you have principles, that’s privilege
As I scan the headlines here and there, I encounter a new brand of fuckery…the claim that refusal to vote Hillary if Bernie doesn’t win the nomination is privilege. That’s some serious […]
