Guest Post: One view from the mountainside
By Anonymous A few weeks ago, our nation elected Donald Trump to the presidency. A few weeks before that, my younger sister got engaged. My reaction to both of these events has been complete,...
Category: Gender
On Raising the Dead
TW Sexual Assault and Vote Shaming I was abducted from my home when I was three years old and sexually assaulted. Although a terrible event in my life, other tragedies have hurt me more....
Guest Post: Shattered
Shattered I took a picture of my daughter wielding a hammer, after I voted. (Though it was a week ago, not this historic night.) I wanted her to be listening for the sound of...
On the election, and feeling unsafe
I canvassed for Hillary on Monday. I live in a swing state, so I took my three year-old daughter out with me and a fellow Democrat to knock the doors of registered Democrats,...
Guest Post — The Benevolent Patriarchy: A Letter to my Mormon dad, who voted for Donald Trump
By GNM Dear Dad, Mitt Romney was speaking to you, man-to-man, when he tweeted: “Hitting on married women? Condoning assault? Such vile degradations demean our wives and daughters and corrupt America’s face to the...
Hillary Clinton just talked about abortion rights at a Catholic college
Overwhelmingly, it is the deeply moral women of America who are deciding this election.
Unwilling Sacrifices
I know I’m about a year too late for this to be news, but I recently watched Suffragette with my family. Snuggled up under a warm comforter and popcorn in hand, I was expecting a feel-good,...
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