Take the Oath: A Critic of Marriage Gets Teary – Laura Flanders

It’s inevitable. I’m thinking about marriage. Not only because of what’s been happening down in Washington, where the Supreme Court’s been hearing arguments on two marriage related cases. I’m thinking about marriage from up closer. A month ago, a couple close to my partner and me, asked us to serve as witnesses to their marriage down at City Hall in Manhattan. The news came as … Continue reading Take the Oath: A Critic of Marriage Gets Teary – Laura Flanders

Will academia ever graduate from sexism? – Heather Mcrobie

There is no such thing as a single issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives, goes the famous Audre Lorde quotation. Its implications lend themselves well to both issues of gender and issues of education in its various forms – threads that run throughout the facets of our lives, our various public and private manifestations of self. In the case of continued gender … Continue reading Will academia ever graduate from sexism? – Heather Mcrobie