I SPENT THE YEAR AFTER COLLEGE in an AmeriCorps program that placed me in the Task Force for the Homeless in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. During my time there I served at several different transitional homes, emergency shelters, and soup kitchens. It was the end of a string of social-service work for me, which started several [...]
IT WAS AN UNUSUAL SCENE, to say the least. Scientists and academics stood in line next to young Tibetan monks. Aging spiritual seekers mingled with ambitious young Cambridge undergraduates. And they all filed, one by one, through checkpoints watched by hawk-eyed Secret Service agents with crew cuts and discreet earpieces.
This unlikely group was gathered [...]
BETWEEN transvaginal ultrasounds, Rush Limbaugh, and Rep. Todd Akin’s recent comments about rape, women have been catching an awful lot of hatred and legal oppression lately.
Over the past several months I’ve also been thinking about my own blind spots around feminism, and on a couple of occasions female [...]
