But I do condemn them for diminishing everything I have personally accomplished, all the hard work I have done in my life, and for ascribing all the fruit I reap not to the seeds I sow but to some ...
A few years ago I walked into my bank. The pressure to buy my first car was brisk and my savings inadequate. I needed a loan. The loan officer looked me in the eye and shot straight, “are you married?
This isn’t the first time I have brought this up, but it bears repeating because of some recent conversations I had with fellow women’s college alumna (all different women’s colleges, including myself ...
The media, doing its usual bang-up job, is framing Donald Trump’s 1.5-point win as a landslide, and making it to be the result of Black and Latino voters abandoning Democrats. What they’re trying to ...
Months ago, I witnessed a Black man attempting to censor a Black woman’s writing. He told her there was no need to write a “divisive” piece because he’s already speaking up for Black women. What this ...
I was preparing the Keynote address I would be delivering for the Canadian Art Therapy Association/Ontario Art Therapy Association Joint Conference on October 14th. The conference theme was Art ...
I recently had a conversation with some of my students about issues of misogyny, male privilege, and the #MeToo movement. We spoke about the male gaze (the action of visually objectifying women both ...
East Elmhurst, L.I.: To my knowledge, this case that earned Donald Trump 34 guilty verdicts had nothing to do with race or ethnicity. Nevertheless, much of MAGA’s motives, in my opinion, has to do ...