Accountability, Transparency, Objectivity—and Victim Shaming When the Epstein victims told their stories of sexual violence—publicly, forcefully, and with documentation—they were met with skepticism, character attacks, and efforts to rewrite their narratives....
The Human Rights Crisis the Headlines Ignore This is the second of a two-part post that forms a call to action to feminists; anti-sexual violence and anti-incest activists; social justice activists; anti-sexists; sexual violence prevention advocates; and all who are...
This is the first of a two-part post that forms a call to action to feminists, anti-sexual violence and anti-incest activists, social justice activists, anti-sexists, sexual violence prevention advocates, feminist journalists, and all who are simply fed up with our...
In midlife, I became a beer drinker. This choice approved of by both my health-conscious children and even my gynecologist: “After all, it's fermented!" But after years of pints, I explained to my children that there were some nights when I just didn't want a beer; it...
More than anything, my mother wanted me to be the Breck girl. Blonde, diaphanous, non-threatening, and docile; the epitome of feminine beauty. But I was dark, and so when I showed my first pimple, she rushed me to a dermatologist. He dismissed her concern about...
The book I have just finished, She's Such a Liar, is not just about the institutionalized suppression of incest and patriarchy’s dependence on father-daughter incest. It’s also about our culture and two of our culture’s founding presuppositions, that of gendered...
When we’re young, we don’t think much about how we learn what we learn. We just learn. But while writing She’s Such A Liar: Incest, Power & Knowledge and reading about the whole structure of unequal social relations and prejudicial ideologies maintain patriarchal...