Yesterday was “Blog for Choice Day 2010” but as I was on a train sans wi-fi for most of the day, I missed it. I did, however, read an incredible post by Sara Gwin of Silence is Betrayal: a Feminist Blog. Gwin presents a history of George Tiller (this year’s theme, in his honor, was […]
Earlier in the week, I tried checking out the TV for news about Haiti, but each time was confronted with pieces that disproportionately focused on white people, Wyclef Jean, and Israel. With regard to Israel in particular, the media seems to be focused on Israel’s highly effective field hospital in Port-au-Prince, which even Jewish papers […]
42 years ago: a revolution on the brink. 1968: the year of protests. the year that rocked the world. the year that Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were brutally murdered*. I was born 14 years later, too late to understand the intricacies of the time. I showed up too late for the […]