Part Three in my response to David Blankenhorn’s half-hearted conversion to equality
E.J. Graff
E.J. Graff writes on social-justice and human-rights issues, particularly discrimination and violence against women and children; marriage and family policy; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives. She is a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center and the author of What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution (Beacon Press, 1999, 2004).
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Same-Sex Marriage Is a Radical Feminist Idea
Does anyone remember yesterday, before our minds were blown away by watching (on Twitter) Roberts vote to uphold the Affordable Care Act and Kennedy join with the three billygoats to declare the whole thing unconstitutional? I’m having trouble remembering, too. But my notes here say that yesterday I wrote about David Blankenhorn’s decision to support […]
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Not Everyone Can Be a Radical
What we talk about when we talk about marriage equality
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Who Loves You, Baby?
More on the Anne-Marie Slaughter confession/manifesto in The Atlantic
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Why Does The Atlantic Hate Women?
Why men (oh, and women, too) still can’t have it all.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Jerry Sandusky and Horace Mann
What does it take to see what’s right in front of your eyes?
Posted inCivil Rights in America
My, My, My Vagina
So accurately naming body parts is more offensive than legislating penalties for the use thereof?
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Why is William Saletan Apologizing for Slate’s Mistake?
More on the research of whether same-sex parents are good for children.
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Chart of the Day: What War on Women?
I know, we’re all used to hearing “war on women” mean the fight to defund and limit women’s reproductive health. But this chart just astonished me. Take a second to compare (all) American deaths in combat with women’s deaths at the hands of men who putatively loved them. Now, which war, again, is being funded […]
