Is Sleep a Feminist Issue?
After recapping (to the best of my ability) feminism in the aughts, I am now focused on what I'd like to see happen in the new decade we are in. According to Arianna Huffington (of The Huffington Post)...
View ArticleClinton Clarion Call: Global Data On Women & Girls Shows "Grim" Portrait
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech today to commemorate the 15th Anniversary of the first International Conference on Population and Development. That gathering included a total of...
View ArticleWomen Who Plan to Have Lots of Sex May Be Breaking the Law
On January 7, Alex DiBranco reported at Change.org's Women's rights blog that carrying too many condoms and hanging out with another person can get a woman arrested for prostitution in DC. On January,...
View ArticleRoe, Roe, Roe Your Reproductive Health Boat and Get Nowhere
Last Friday, Jan. 22, 2010, marked the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, when the Supreme Court legalized abortion across the United States. This is not to say that abortion was not legal at all before...
View Article10 Ways to Add More Meaning to Your Days
I can talk all about 10 ways to be more productive, find more time in your day, boost your bottom line, or simply get more and they would give you benefit. Yet as I was thinking about which "10" I...
View ArticleHow Will the World Change for Women in the Next Decade?
At the end of 2009, I breathed a sigh of relief. I was too young in the 1980s to experience the wrath of the backlash against feminist achievements, but the revival (and worse, implementation) of...
View ArticleSex Education That Works
I always thought that I was pretty old when I had sex for the first time (19), but Alan Guttmacher Institute reports that I was completely average. It turns out that 70% of unmarried teens in American...
View ArticleStress Sucks - Relax!
There are many components of healthy living: eating right, exercising, refraining from smoking, keeping up with medical appointments, and not doing dumb-ass things like driving 100 miles per hour or...
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I Am 50, and the Angels Still Sing
Today, my son, 19, returned home from classes at the University of New Orleans, bounded into my bedroom where I was working and said, "So, tomorrow, you'll be over the hill."I said, "What do you mean?...
View ArticleMotivation for Bookworms - Could I Just Read About Doing A Push-Up?
I tell myself I will sign up for that yoga class. I think about it every time I get a twinge or a crook in the neck. The days move forward and so does any lack of movement toward an actual decision or...
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