How can you tell if you’re at a feminist wedding?
No, that’s not a joke, although there’s probably a joke in there somewhere. (I’m lousy at telling jokes.) But seriously, what makes a wedding feminist? If the father doesn’t give away the bride? If the bride keeps her last name and is introduced that way?  If [...]

“… Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique is to feminism as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring is to environmentalism: works that defined a movement and changed the world so profoundly that the worlds described within them seem alien to my modern eyes.” So writes Elizabeth on Goodreads.com. (I love a good review!)

Which is precisely why I recommend [...]

With all the debate in feminist circles about what kind of wedding a feminist should have (if any), it’s too easy to forget the reason that people have weddings: they love each other, they’re happy and they want to share their joy with others. I was reminded of this when I ran across Jill and [...]

Imagine you have a society in which one half of its members control the other half. The controllers don’t want to be seen as tyrants, so they allow some of the controllees to break out of their position in life (although they never pay them as much as they do themselves).  But the vast majority [...]

The British Health Service attempted to run an ad campaign by disseminating a convincingly real cell-phone video of a schoolgirl giving birth on the soccer field. You Tube banned the video but you can still see it via this article on Salon.com’s Broadsheet. I’m assuming it’s designed to scare the hell out of teenagers who [...]