Political Action

You are allowed to have preferences that produce absolutely no social benefit whatsoever. Your personal life does not have to double as public service. There is not a single soul …

A man wanting access to a woman does not create a moral question for the woman. She can simply decline. At least we are getting closer to telling the truth …

There are places in the world where women are screaming into a silence that should shame the rest of us. Haiti is one of them. Haiti is living through an extraordinary …

Well, actually…they’ve been asking for help for awhile. At some point we as a global family can deal with why their cries have gone unheard, including the fact that larger …

This is suicide awareness month. Black people are being found dead and hung in 2026 under awfully suspicious circumstances. Two different terribly tragic truths running side by side. Why would …

Try not to measure an older woman’s courage by doors that had not been built yet. In 1968, *Lorraine is twenty-five years old with two little children and a husband …

Some people do not ask you to understand them. They ask you to stop understanding yourself. Women have historically been asked to perform enormous amounts of kindness: caregiving, smoothing conflict, …

Women did not create boundaries because every man is dangerous. Women created boundaries because they cannot know in advance which man is. Violent men don’t walk around with id tags …

 Harm does not always arrive announcing itself as hatred. Sometimes it comes smiling, agreeing with 80 percent of what you say, and spending the remaining 20 percent figuring out exactly …