Tag Archives: living beyond restrictions
An Open Letter to Shonda Rhimes: Bring April’s Sexy Back
Dr. Kepner

    Dear Ms. Rhimes: Most of the time, I love you and you make me regret not sticking it…

There’s Something about Mary

I have a problem with obedience—not necessarily the action, but the idea of it. Obedience implies acts done with or…

The Power of Male Teachers

When I heard that all the adults who died in the Sandy Hook massacre last week were women, one of…

If the Mayans are Right
photo - mayan calendar

  If the Mayans are right*, and the world does end on Dec. 21, 2012—does anyone else wonder if the…

Promoting Inner Black Beauty

  I was going over a long list of possible topics to blog about when I jumped on Twitter to…

GRITS Living in Red
illustration: electoral map

I’ve been trying to compose something about the election for the past two weeks, but I haven’t had much to…

Tis the Right Season?

The end of the year is near. I know that not just because of the change in seasons or the…

Called to Love in Election 2012

“to be ‘feminist’ in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation…

Dress Me Up Like This

While it’s fun to be someone else for a day, this Halloween, I hope you’ll join me in thinking about…

Where the Men Never Ended and Could Begin Again Part 2

In part 1, I talked about Hanna Rosin’s book The End of Men and the Rise of Women and suggested that…

My Thing With Things Against Submission

Last Saturday, for the first time ever, I went to a wedding and took notes. I think most single women…

First Lady Love

I love my First Lady. I was so pumped after watching her speech last night, it took me an extra…

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…

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…

Contaminating the Pulpit

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

Defining Oprah
Still from Oprah's Farewell Spectacular

  The Oprah Winfrey Show episode that serves as a defining moment for me is one I didn’t see, and…

When you see a woman drive
My cousin (at the wheel) and me on my grandmother's bus

Women didn’t drive very often when my maternal grandmother was a girl.

Let’s get loud
Michael and Janet Jackson stills from "Scream"

I knew before I looked that these voices belonged to young black males. And I wanted to tell them not to be so loud. What would white people think of us?

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