What would you do if you came home and accidently discovered your daughter making out with another girl? Would you be surprised? Hurt or alarmed? Would you think she’s going through a ‘growing phase’ and then seek therapy for her, you know, so that she could fix her problem? You might even be so desperate for help that [...]

Make no mistake, here in the US there is a political war on women being waged. As oppressive as it has been lately, let’s take a moment to rem,ember that this country is still one of the best places on earth to be a woman. That is relative to the struggles of women in the [...]

Don’t tell Ron Paul supporters that he has become all but an afterthought in the current GOP race. That said, I don’t think his recent comments in an interview with Piers Morgan may come back to bite him in the ass. In last Friday’s interview, Paul said he would be supportive of  a woman’s right to an [...]

Sometimes, I wonder what it’s like to wake up in the morning, and be so entrenched in my own privilege and prejudices that I attempt with all my might to assert my beliefs on people with whom I have absolutely nothing in common. As a person who faces multiple lines of marginalization, the thought process [...]

One of my biggest qualms as a professional and lifelong advocate is the clear division that we see after college in the social science and activist realm. What I mean, mostly, is that men are told to enter into “real” careers and forget those true lessons that they attained in college through their advocacy, while [...]

I work, both professionally and otherwise, in a field of advocacy; yet, when I have an opportunity at work to network with people of other agencies in different capacities, as a social butterfly and generally nosy investigative person, I do so. I’m also one of those do-gooders who believes in being kind to people, as you [...]

Sometimes I neglect to write simply because I realize that my writing is driven by more passion then it is by academia. I am just as capable of writing a coherent sentence and balancing an argument with the pro and con of an issue as anyone else with an Undergraduate Degree but sometimes I just [...]

Okay, so now that you’ve heard about the Penn State sex scandal, let’s talk about the white version of Eddie Long. A slightly more sicker version, but nothing close to the Vatican cover up, the Penn State scandal is about a man who abused young boys, was busted but was concealed by an institution that [...]

So, apparently several people in authority took the “PEN” in Penn State just a little bit too seriously. You know, as in penitentiary? Not that I’ve spent any time in one. But I assume that’s probably the only place where turning a blind eye to rape is expected. For the life of me, I don’t understand [...]

I’d love to take this opportunity to discuss SlutWalk and the dual (and often dueling) marginalization faced by Black women in any mainstream movement. I know that, as usual, I’m fashionably late to the party, because careful consideration is very typical of my type-A personality. SlutWalk, like many other movements grew exponentially and the original [...]

I’m not sure if this situation is widely known, or just how many folks are aware.  However, it woukd appear that there’s a serial rapist targeting Black women. More specifically, it appears he has a thing for members of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in the Dallas, TX. area. Now the fact that this story [...]