I'm still thinking about passing, and it seems to me like we're taught to pass in many, many ways. Many of these have to do with per...

So, I have to 'fess up to this little quirk of mine: I collect the songs "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and "The Rainbow Co...

From an interview with Alfre Woodard at the A.V. Club : AVC: You were going to say something about playing moms? AW: It’s so boring. I’m no...

A friend linked me to this blog today, where I stumbled upon a really thoughtful and thought-provoking post on profeminist fatherhood. Some...

Let's say you're a woman who makes exactly the median wage as compared to the median wage for men: $.79 to their dollar. That means...

I often think that we spend a lot of time talking about systemic oppression and exclusion, but the concept remains kind of vague and fuzzy f...

The recent release of torture memos has given new life to the debate on whether or not torture yields any useful information. The idea behin...

I've been involved in a number of conversations lately about the social construction of gender, and it occurs to me that what it means f...

This post might seem really random and out-of-nowhere at first, but bear with me. This weekend some friends of ours had a benefit to raise m...

Gender : The constellation of socially constructed behaviors, roles, characteristics, appropriate activities, propensities, etc. that corres...

Bursting into tears during a rational discussion and claiming that your opponent's valid point that was neither a personal attack nor ov...