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Because racism’s dead. You knew that, right?
Interracial couple denied marriage license in La. NEW ORLEANS – A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the...
View ArticleIn Defense of ReGifting
I like to give gifts. And I mean real gifts- gifts that I’ve thought about, gifts that I’ve dedicated myself, gifts that give a part of myself to my friends and loved ones. Gifts they think they’ll...
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Restavec
An interpretation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, represented as a pyramid with the more basic needs at the bottom. A restavec (or restavek; from the French reste avec, “one who stays with”) is a...
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Time to Hurl
I’m sure everybody remembers this: Aww, that’s such a romantic pict–! hmm, wait. Isn’t that guy about twenty years older than that barely pubescent girl..? I mean, I can see some serious crepe-like...
View ArticleMy Twisted Place in the Kyriarchy
The Kyriarchy, for those of you who don’t follow a lot of feminist/ progressive scholarship, is “a neologism coined by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza and derived from the Greek words for “lord” or...
View ArticleConservatives are Evil
Health care reform has passed the House yesterday (as everyone in the blogosphere is talking about). I feel a little bit out side of this discussion, to tell you the honest truth. This is,...
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Today’s Giggle Moment
Scholars of boys and men converged Wednesday at Wagner College, in Staten Island, N.Y., to announce the creation of the Foundation for Male Studies, which will support a conference and a journal...
View ArticleWhy Am I Not Supposed to be Offended Again?
I have, in the intern, been working for the U.S. Census. It’s fairly routine work- lots of paperwork, lots of calling people, but hey, I need money to pay the bills.* Today we had an exterminator come...
View ArticleGet Over It
A friend of mine was talking the other day about this guy who was yelling at her on the street, and how uncomfortable it was for her. Not an uncommon event, not even for her, but this one was a little...
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Sluts and Mothers
Generally, two things only women can be. I’ve seldom been a slut–I was never able to say that before, or anything else on the topic of how much of a slut I was or wasn’t, because I never had a...
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