Advocates at the state level are fighting for stronger confidentiality programs for survivors of domestic abuse.
Gender & Sexuality
Posted inTAP
Don’t Mess with LGBT Texans
The Texas legislature is considering a bill that would allow any person in a licensed occupation, such as plumbers, opticians, pharmacists, and even non-emergency doctors, to refuse service to someone who happened to be LGBT because it offended their religious sensibility. You know, God created Eve from Adam’s rib, marriage is between a man and […]
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Want to End Inequality in America? Stop Pushing Marriage.
Prioritizing matrimony as the solution to inequality and poverty has failed to make a dent in the myriad of challenges facing families.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Maryland’s Failure to Connect Stalking With Gun Violence
Although Maryland boasts having some of the toughest gun control laws in the country, the state is missing a critical loophole in its approach to public safety: stalking. Maryland is the only state that rules this crime a misdemeanor, which means stalkers can still buy a gun after conviction. And the state has intimate knowledge […]
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Strategies for a Post-Roe America—and for Post-Roe American Women
An interview with Robin Marty
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Race and Class Are Old Bases of Political Divisions. Gender is Different.
Electoral politics didn’t used to divide women and men.
Posted inEducation in America
How Gender Became Our National Political Battleground
Electoral politics didn’t use to divide women and men.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Getting Angry at the Right Targets in the Right Way
Catharsis is good, but effectiveness matters more.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Why They Don’t Like Tzipi Livni
It might just have to do with her pronoun.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Winning the Gender Wars
Feminism and misogyny have assumed larger roles in Americans’ electoral identities. This worked to the Democrats’ advantage in the midterms, but may not in the presidential race two years hence.
