Franklin’s bill comes on the heels of an attempt to redefine the word rape itself in (more…)
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Freedom and the English LanguageFebruary 21, 2011
Franklin’s bill comes on the heels of an attempt to redefine the word rape itself in (more…) The Second Assault on Lara LoganFebruary 16, 2011
The brutal sexual assault of CBS news chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan, while she was covering a celebration following the revolution in Egypt, has not provided us with some shocking revelation. Sexual violence and violence against women, particularly in the workplace or at home are common occurrences, not just in the Arab world but worldwide. (more…)
Julian Assange: Too busy with “serious” work to answer questions about possible sexual assaultDecember 23, 2010
The following piece on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is a guest blog by Anna Louie Sussman. Sussman is a print journalist whose work has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Nation, and other magazines. She writes about social justice and women's issues, and ice cream.
The fierce megalomania that Julian Assange unleashed in Monday’s twenty-five-minute-long interview with the BBC’s John Humphrys presumably surprised no one. He’s been (more…) A Funeral in Clay, NYNovember 29, 2010
A funeral will be held Wednesday for Jenni Lyn Watson, a resident of Clay, NY who disappeared November 19 and whose body was found a week later, dumped behind a storage shed four miles from her house. Her ex-boyfriend is being charged with murder. (more…)
The Beginning of MenOctober 6, 2010
The recent trend of declaring the “end of masculinity” is gaining much purchase recently, such as in the piece that ran September 20 in Newsweek Magazine asking us if it was time for a “new macho” and Hanna Rosin’s well researched article “The End of Men” which ran in the July/ (more…)
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