Category Archives: Uppity Wimmin

“Every baby bornunloved, unwanted, is a bill that will comedue in twenty years with interest, an angerthat must find a target, a pain that willbeget pain. A decade downstream a childscreams, a woman falls, a synagogue is torched,a firing squad … Continue reading →

“Our culture’s misreading of the Rosa Parks story speaks to a more general collective amnesia, where we forget the examples that might most inspire our courage, hope, and conscience. Of the abolitionist and civil rights movements, we at best recall … Continue reading →

“Enlightened sexism is a response, deliberate or not, to the perceived threat of a new gender regime. It insists that women have made plenty of progress because of feminism–indeed, full equality, has allegedly been achieved. So now it’s okay, even … Continue reading →