This is part 3 in an ongoing series by a special contributor who is taking us behind the scenes of her life as a rape survivor. We heard about how rapists are not always strangers. How people w know can go too far. And today, how she, like most survivors, are left to pick up… Continue reading How to find Justice
This is the second part in a series about companion rape. Women are more often attacked by those closest to them than the stranger in the parking lot. We need to speak out against violence against women and hold our legal systems accountable for light prison sentences. —– The date was awkward as first dates… Continue reading Anatomy of a Rape: Part Two
The news about young white male athletes getting off with light prison sentences for sexual assault filled the headlines this summer. Brock Turner, a Stanford swimmer, severed only 3 months in a county jail for his assault of a unconscious woman. This type of horrific behavior – both by the court and the rapist –… Continue reading Anatomy of a Rape (Part One)
Friday at 6:00 p.m. I’m the first to arrive to ladies’ night. This rarely happens. In fact, it’s probably safe to say in the instance of this particular group, I’m always last one in and first one out. On to a school fundraiser, or a birthday party, or some other family summons that sees me… Continue reading Why Being Left Behind Isn’t as Bad as it Sounds
I went to a slavery museum today. Not in Washington, D.C. but in the heart of old Doha. Yes, on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula, there’s slavery museum housed in a building dating back to the 1920s, which once belonged to the Bin Jelmood family. The feelings that well up when you’re inside the… Continue reading We Need to Talk about Slavery
Monday night is media night in our house. Depending on the time of year it could be The Walking Dead that keeps home or Game of Thrones. Two very different sagas that have one device in common: characters you care about in life threatening situations. Tonight’s episode, number 3 in season 6, was full of… Continue reading Life Lessons from Game of Thrones (contains #GoT6x03 spoiler!)
Full disclosure. There’s no expert. There’s only a crystal clear moment during a pre-K music class I want to share with you. Because sometime during the forty minutes I sat on a plastic chair in a semi circle, flanked by my husband and other parents, the meaning of life was revealed to me. There I… Continue reading An Expert Interview on the Meaning of Life
Remember the time you were sitting beside your brother (sister/cousin/neighbor)? The asphalt stretched before you in unfulfilled promise. S/he chewed potato chips, waking you up from a nap. “Stop!” You said, at increasing volume. Words were exchanged. You reached for the bag, balled it up, and tossed it into the front seat (or out the… Continue reading Make Ignoring it Your Superpower
Embed from Getty Images //embed.gettyimages.com/embed/136801350?et=9vTUJfLtShNbW2C2_-Alzw&sig=8OI62JlP8ZeRLKOC9OCEFru6YrP3BgXOkVU_7mvrbb0= My first February as a graduate teaching assistant I explained to the class why I was ant-Valentine’s day. “A day for women to make men guilty for forgetting and for men to think women are needy,” I said. I’m sure my hands were on my hips in front of the… Continue reading We Don’t Need Valentine’s Day in Elementary School
There are no atheists in foxholes, goes the saying. Abstract concepts of the afterlife become concrete when bombs detonate over your head. You would never write a paper for someone else. Unless you needed money to pay for your own education. “People would ask me all the time to write their papers,” a student said… Continue reading The Shadow Knowledge Economy
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