Kate Atkinson is, to my mind, one of the more undervalued writers of the last 25 years in English language fiction. Oh, sure, she has a big fan base in the UK in particular, and her books sell well,...
Janet Mock is one of the most visible, active, and outspoken women of colour in US media today. A former editor at People with a lengthy and impressive resume to her credit, she’s celebrating the...
HBO’s new programme Looking seems to be attracting rather polarised responses: some are hailing it as refreshingly true to the lives of gay men in their 30s and 40s, while others are complaining...
The persistent myth of the perfect mother is a narrative that shapes and limits women's lives even as family structures and women's choices expand and change in the new millennium. Developing ways to...
Musician and activist Ani DiFranco was recently embroiled in controversy after she announced plans for a four-day feminist creativity camp, called the Righteous Retreat, to be held near her...
I was a little young to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer when it first hit our television screens back in 1997, although it finished up in 2003, when I was heading headlong into adolescence and...
I must be the world’s biggest Grinch: it’s December 21, and I just pulled the federal tax form 990 off of the website of Toys for Tots, the massive children’s Christmas toy distribution charity...
On Sunday, Michelle Bachelet was voted in as President of Chile for her second term. Constitutional electoral requirements made it so that she had to leave her position following her initial...
California’s Bay Area enjoys a reputation as one of the most liberal regions in the country, a locale infamous for ‘San Francisco values,’ the alleged libertine attitudes of the Castro, the...
The woeful state of health care in the United States has made the country into something that would be a laughingstock, if the stakes weren’t so high. While most other Western nations have managed...