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Mommy Wars Part 601,789
Published March 29, 2013
“The feminist revolution started in the workplace and now it’s happening at home,” says Kelly Makino, a stay-at-home, putatively “Feminist Housewife,” in Lisa Miller’s cover story in New York Magazine last week. “I feel like in today’s society women who don’t work are bucking the convention we were raised with … Why can’t we just [...]
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Savita’s Death: A Warning
Published December 9, 2012
A medical killing in Ireland teaches us why we should be radical about abortion rights. More at Seven Days.
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Ich Bin ein Scrounger
Published September 17, 2012
Oscar Pistorius stressed that we’re enabled by our abilities, not disabled by our disabilities. But when we’re disabled–as we all are or will be–we need help.
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Occupys Woman Problem | Seven Days
Published April 25, 2012
Did I say Occupy is feminist?
I was only partially right.
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Occupy Wall Street is feminist
Published January 3, 2012
Since this Seven Days column was published, my view of the position of women in OWS has gotten less peachy. Nonetheless, here’s my take on parallels between OWS and Greenham Women’s Common, the feminist anti-militarist encampment that lasted 12 years in Britain.
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The 99 Percent Fight Back — Finally!
Published October 12, 2011
OWS doesn’t have demands — they have desires.
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Maximum Security
Published August 20, 2011
The longing for perfect safety has so suffused both our psyches and our public policy that it is now all but invisible.
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Coup d’etat
Published August 20, 2011
I used to hope for the end of government. But these days, I’m feeling sort of warm and squishy toward the good old corrupt, corporatized, compromised U.S. Constitutional system.
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Case Study: “Barry O.”
Published July 20, 2011
Here’s my analysis — psychoanalysis, that is — of the Neurotic in Chief.
I wrote it in the middle of the debt ceiling debate. Now that it’s over (and I mean over for everyone), it seems even more true.
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Neither Victim Nor Executioner
Published May 16, 2011
Osama is dead. Can we go home now?