Best reads week 8.11.2012

A new goal for this blog is to direct you to some of the best pieces available online about issues…

Do Tell! (but no pressure)
photo: woman with speech bubble

  I must not be up on my feminism game. Apparently, I’ve missed the wave of abortion “coming out” stories…

Bringing feminism into sexual morality

I stumbled upon the above tweets a few days ago in the timeline of Jonathan Merritt, author of “A Faith…

Nora Ephron: A tribute and a question
Nora Ephron I feel bad about my neck book cover

I was saddened to learn of writer Nora Ephron’s death just a few hours after I claimed her as one…

It’s business but it’s culture
child with her hair braided

Despite the name of this blog, I rarely say anything about hair. But I heard something yesterday morning that irked…

Mothers not needed, equality achieved?

I heard a story the other day on NPR about the rise of single men becoming single dads by choice….

Show Me the Vagina!
my timeline 6-14

  If you inquired as to why #VaginaMovieLines was trending on Twitter on Thursday, June 14, you found out that…

Virginity as a social construct?
40-yr-old virgin poster

“I don’t really believe in virginity.”   I heard “The F Word” blogger Holly Combe say this during a segment…

Why Black Voters Should Be Mad at Obama (and themselves)

I’ve spent the past several days absorbing commentary via social media and NPR about President Obama’s views on same-sex marriage…

L.A. Riots 20 years later and Gen X through it all

At an event a few weeks ago about cross-generational workplaces, I learned that most members of any given generation are…

The Bachelor and American Inclusion (my post on ebony.com)

My first post on Ebony.com went live there on April 25. It starts: The recent class action lawsuit against ABC…

Time for Equal Expectations
photo: payday candybar

Tuesday, April 17, was National Equal Pay Day.  Since it was also Tax Day, you may not have noticed.  According…

Contaminating the Pulpit

Disclaimer: The following post is based on information that’s come down a chain. Names have been omitted to protect those…

Required Reading

One of the unfortunate aspects of being a print journalist is that I can’t share links in the newspaper, and…

WTF is going on in Arizona?

According to the Huffington Post and also reported in the International Business Times, Arizona state legislator Debbie Lesko has drafted…

Deep South sexism and racism live on in Limbaugh

I’ve been reading At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance—A New History of the Civil…

When man-made laws protect us from bad faith

Because faith is so personal, I try to avoid looking at it objectively or commenting on religions that are not…

It’s about women, even when it’s about religion

At a hearing titled “Lines Crossed: Separation of Church and State. Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion…

Movies aren’t miracles

I have long believed that film has the ability to change the world.  I wrote in my 2002 and 2004…

Words matter to equality

The BBC reports that Cesson-Sevigne, a town in France, has banned “Mademoiselle” as a form of addressing women. Noting that…

Another “F” voice emerges in 2012

I can’t control what people think of me as a person or as a writer, but some emails I’ve received…

Looking for Plan B: An open letter to girls

To a 16-year-old girl who wants to buy Plan B-One over the counter: Someone in the Obama administration you’ve probably…

Pick your paternalism poison
photo: purity rings from overstock.com

In his column, “America’s obsession with missing white women,” Miami Herald writer Leonard Pitts asserts that the incessant news coverage of…

Baby do or baby don’t?

Story #1: Educated, career-oriented American women falsely assume they can easily conceive children when they’re in their 40s.   Story…

Let the hate show

When I read yesterday that Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church, a church in my lovely state of Kentucky, voted to ban…

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