3 Ways To Recognize An Emergency In 2017
Let’s say you were strolling down the street when you spied a small child who had drifted away from his family. As motor vehicles streamed by at illegal speeds, the lad was getting perilously close to...
View ArticleThe End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men | Mickey Z. interviews Robert...
“It seemed that there was a need for a book that laid out the problem of patriarchy in plain language.” (Robert Jensen) While we’ve never met in person, Robert Jensen and I have known each other (in...
View ArticleIt’s Not A Level Playing Field. It’s A Jigsaw Puzzle With A Lot Of Missing...
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” – Stephen...
View ArticleRebuilding Activism From The Ground Up
I. I recognized a familiar sound I’d just finished working with a personal training client near Central Park before hopping on a downtown R train. Over my shoulder was a canvas bag holding five “FOR...
View ArticleThe Dworkin-MacKinnon Anti-Pornography Civil Rights Ordinance
The Dworkin-MacKinnon Ordinance — originally written in 1983 by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon — was an amendment to a civil rights law. It stands as a mostly ignored template for creating...
View ArticleThat Time When Male Violence Altered The History Of Women’s Tennis
Not too long ago, while leaving the gym, I overheard a conversation about the best female tennis players of all-time. As I walked home, I pondered my own list and came up with five women with whom...
View ArticleWhat if I told you 2,000 women per year are murdered by men they know?...
On May 28, 2016, a gorilla named Harambe was killed at the Cincinnati Zoo. A small child had fallen into the primate’s enclosure and… well, you know the rest. “As I watched the sort of public outrage...
View ArticleWho Cares About Helping Homeless Women?
I hadn’t seen J. in more than a week and that was concerning. It always worries me when one of my “regulars” vanishes. Often, this situation has resulted in me eventually encountering them and getting...
View ArticleThe low-key passing of Manuel Noriega
By the time Manuel Noriega died on May 29, 2017, the “ousted dictator” or “Panamanian strongman” had long since taken up residency in the proverbial dustbin of history. He hadn’t been useful or...
View ArticleFacebook Makes Everything Worse
Here’s how “awareness” works in 2017: Something happens. We post about. Until something else happens. We revel in the likes, shares, or comments. Or we wallow in self-doubt about the lack of likes,...
View ArticleIt’s Not A Level Playing Field. It’s A Jigsaw Puzzle With A Lot Of Missing...
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” – Stephen...
View ArticleRebuilding Activism From The Ground Up
I. I recognized a familiar sound I’d just finished working with a personal training client near Central Park before hopping on a downtown R train. Over my shoulder was a canvas bag holding five “FOR...
View ArticleThe Dworkin-MacKinnon Anti-Pornography Civil Rights Ordinance
The Dworkin-MacKinnon Ordinance — originally written in 1983 by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon — was an amendment to a civil rights law. It stands as a mostly ignored template for creating...
View ArticleThat Time When Male Violence Altered The History Of Women’s Tennis
Not too long ago, while leaving the gym, I overheard a conversation about the best female tennis players of all-time. As I walked home, I pondered my own list and came up with five women with whom...
View ArticleWhat if I told you 2,000 women per year are murdered by men they know?...
On May 28, 2016, a gorilla named Harambe was killed at the Cincinnati Zoo. A small child had fallen into the primate’s enclosure and… well, you know the rest. “As I watched the sort of public outrage...
View ArticleWho Cares About Helping Homeless Women?
I hadn’t seen J. in more than a week and that was concerning. It always worries me when one of my “regulars” vanishes. Often, this situation has resulted in me eventually encountering them and getting...
View ArticleThe low-key passing of Manuel Noriega
By the time Manuel Noriega died on May 29, 2017, the “ousted dictator” or “Panamanian strongman” had long since taken up residency in the proverbial dustbin of history. He hadn’t been useful or...
View ArticleFacebook Makes Everything Worse
Here’s how “awareness” works in 2017: Something happens. We post about. Until something else happens. We revel in the likes, shares, or comments. Or we wallow in self-doubt about the lack of likes,...
View ArticleHow to (really) Help Homeless Women
For my entire adult life, I’ve tried to help homeless people. For years, I wrote for Street News — a once-popular advocacy newspaper mostly produced and sold by homeless people in New York City. I’ve...
View ArticleThe public perception of Stormy Daniels, “porn stars” and “hookers.”
“The reasons a woman only has to make one porn film to be a ‘porn star’ are similar to the reasons a man has only to sign on the dotted government line to be a ‘war hero’. The ‘war hero’ and ‘porn...
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