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No More Moments of Silence

October 11, 2012

Tags: St. John's Keynote, gender, women's rights, rape

On October 4, I gave the keynote address at St. John’s University in Queens, New York, for “Take Back the Night,” an international yearly march that began in the 1970s to protest violence against women. This is a version of that address.

Good evening. I’m honored to speak with you about violence. And the thing I want to tell you most is (more…)

Bringing it all Back Home; an Interview with Joe Schmidbauer

April 12, 2011

Tags: Joe Schmidbauer, reporting, women's rights

The author happily standing between editors Sarah Knight and Joe Schmidbauer
Last month my first editor Joe Schmidbauer came to visit for the launch of So Much Pretty. I began writing for Joe when I was 23, covering environmental issues for a community newspaper. I spent nearly every morning of my life for four years sitting in his kitchen engaged in the kind of critical analysis I’d missed by not going to college, and then (more…)

Know Your Heroes: Simone Debeauvoir

March 5, 2011

Tags: Simone DeBeauvoir, gender, existentialism, women's rights

"Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority."
- Simone DeBeauvoir


From our friends at the existential primer:
Simone de Beauvoir was one of the most important cultural historians of the twentieth century. She was also (more…)

Kicking off Women's History Month with Emma

February 28, 2011

Tags: Emma Goldman, anarchism, women's rights, gender, equality, politics

Emma Goldman (1869–1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women's equality and independence, and union (more…)

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