February 14th is One Billion Rising, this year’s iteration of V-Day, a campaign against sexualized violence founded by the playwright Eve Ensler. The idea of One Billion Rising is basically that people get together and perform a dance called “Break … Read more →
Laura Murphy, a parent from Fairfax County, Virginia, is lobbying her school board to remove Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved from their curriculum. Evidently her high school senior son had nightmares after reading the book, and she decided it wasn’t appropriate … Read more →
Kathleen Parker has an article up in the Washington Post arguing against the end of the combat ban. I’m not going to go through the whole thing, but I wanted to address a couple of points. The first is the … Read more →
The feminist bugbear has been summoned! Oh, that we were fated to live through such a time, that the precious flower of womanhood is sent to the front lines. So naturally I have a few points to make. The first … Read more →
*descriptions of violence* I’ve linked to the Women Under Siege project before, but I’d like to highlight their work. They describe themselves as “an independent initiatve documenting how rape and other forms of sexualized violence are used as tools in … Read more →
From Lauren Wolfe at The Atlantic: On the evening of October 25, a handful of men carrying guns stormed the house of a Congolese doctor in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The unknown men conducted about a half an hour’s … Read more →