Short skirts don’t rape women; men rape women. Hoodies don’t shoot Skittles-toting teenagers; overzealous neighborhood watch guys shoot teenagers.
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).
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Time for Lessons on “Living While Black”
I hate this idea, but it might be time to start.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Is the Blunt Amendment a Wedge to Bring Down ACA?
In which you get to see for yourself how amusing I find this season’s attack on the ladies
Posted inCivil Rights in America
More on Tyler Clementi
Another perspective on the college student’s death over at The Nation.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Walking While Black
If the colors here were reversed, if a white man were dead by gunshot, do you think for a minute that the black man would be walking around free?
Posted inLaw and Justice
Who Killed Tyler Clementi?
Dharun Ravi’s roommate committed suicide after Ravi spied on him having sex with another man. But is he responsible for his death?
Posted inArticle
Encyclopedia of Silly Walks
A moment of nostalgia and British humor for the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Silver Lining for the Ladies
The bad news is that women are under attack. The good news is that they’re fighting back.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
After Jerry Sandusky
How can we all be sentinels, watching out for children?
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
What’s Right with This Picture?
In which Eeyore takes a break and notices with amazement that, for the moment, several of the most powerful people on the planet are women.
