Is it only to make babies, or is it also to make us happy?
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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Colbert Explains Contraception And the War On Religion
Complete with a banana. And a guillotine. The funniest thing I have seen in a very long time.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Happy Valentine’s Day … And Don’t Forget to Tip Your Waitress
Food industry workers earn the lowest wages among all occupations and rarely get sick days.
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Roland Martin and the Masculinity Patrol
Charles Blow of The New York Times gets it: Mockery about masculinity is dangerous.
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Obituary for a Singer
No, not for Whitney Houston but for the searingly clear poet Wislawa Szymborska.
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Don’t Spill That Semen!
Taking personhood mandates to their natural conclusion.
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… And Still More Marriage Equality
The Washington Legislature sends its governor an equal-marriage bill.
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Why Should the Government Enforce Catholic Church Beliefs?
“You’re no better than a whore on the street,” said the priest.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Hurrah for Small Victories: The Perry Decision Is Just Right
Why are LGBT advocates happy that the Ninth Circuit’s decision applies only to California?
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Fight to Be Ordinary
Massachusetts offers a model for making gay marriage noncontroversial.
