“Suicide,” someone murmured after reading the announcement that a woman had died at the retirement center. “She was estranged from her family,” said another who stood beside the first speaker. Her remark rang true because the death notice asked that no condolences be left for

  I  came across an acronym recently which puzzled me. Someone critical of J. K. Rowling’s position on transgender women accused the writer of being TERF.  I had to look up the term and found it means activists who seek to limit full equality for transgender people and exclud

“The rubicon (sic) has been crossed. The fire of revolution has been lit.”  So wrote a representative of the white supremacist group the Proud Boys on Telegram, after the January 6, 2021 insurrection.  (“Capitol Insurrection,…” by Cassie Miller and Hannah Gais, Southern Po

After three months of living with Donald Trump and hoping for the best, I continue to be dumbfounded by the strength of his support among women. We know  53% of white women supported him in the last election. (“Feminist Fall,” by Jessa Crispin, New Republic, March 2017.)  Why th

One of my blog readers is a baby boomer. We’ve never met but sometimes he comments on a blog, particularly in support of  women’s issues.   Being curious,  I emailed him one day to ask how he came to be so sensitive to the goals of feminism.  His answer: “I’ve got daughte