Admission: I love reading the Sunday New York Times. But it takes all Sunday, time I don't often have, so I don't do it often. That means I miss things I would otherwise find interesting. Enter the alumni e-newsletter, which is how I found out about this thoughtful op-ed by Jennifer Finney Boylan from several weeks ago. I've never met Jennifer ( Read more... )

Today so many of us are wearing purple to show our support for an end to LGBT bullying. Some of us, including me, are allies. We become allies for many reasons, sometimes because we have an LGBT family member, sometimes out of principle, sometimes--like me--because we, too, are different and know what it feels like to be bullied, teased, and picked ( Read more... )

Fearless Friday explores gender. (Icon via garwlbanan)

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about how being tall affected my life and how having queer friends got me thinking about gender.

But there's more to my interest in gender and gender roles than that. I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, when the Women's Movement was rising. As a high school student I ( Read more... )

For someone who spent decades trying to figure out what she wanted to write--seriously, people--I am suddenly deluged with more book ideas than I can count.

Usually they're a lot like this:


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