The humidity broke sometime between noon and 6pm yesterday, and this morning is just about as perfect as a September morning can get: clear, cool, and still comfortable in short sleeves. I love how the world feels on these mornings: fresh and bursting with life. As amber_phoenix noted yesterday, the tomato faucet in our yard is ON. So is the sunflower faucet, ( Read more... )

From a 1952 speech by Noah S. Sweat, Jr., a lawmaker from Mississippi, on the subject of whether Mississippi should continue to prohibit (which it did until 1966) or finally legalize alcoholic beverages:My friends, I had not intended to discuss this controversial subject at this particular time. However, I want you to know that I do not shun ( Read more... )

I'm having a really hard time with the current flood of misogynistic legislation coming from all over the US. I mean, it's not really a surprise that a lot of the philosophical underpinnings of the abortion conversation is sub rosa punishment of women for having sex; I've known that for a long time. But some of these bills don't even bother to hide ( Read more... )

Some of you may already be familiar with hydraulic fracturing, known as "fracking", which is a way to extract resources like oil, gas or water, from deep below the surface of the earth. By boring deep into the ground and pumping fluid into the hole, miners increase the rate of fracturing in the material below, creating larger fissures through which ( Read more... )

Dear Nearly Everyone In the WorldJust because someone did or does something awesome does not mean that s/he is incapable of ALSO doing or having done something awful ( Read more... )

The video below is Tony Porter's recent talk at TEDWomen. It's important. Please watch it or read the transcript, which is behind the cut ( Read more... )

Dear Professor Hill,

Reading the NYT piece about Virginia Thomas's recent phone callreminded me of something I wish I'd done sooner, which is to deeply ( Read more... )

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"Let's be completely clear about the facts here. There is no place in the world and no time in history where restricting women's reproductive rights makes a people or a nation more free or more equal. These extreme positions on abortion are without question a war on American girls and women." -Melissa Harris Lacewell ( Read more... )

There is a final, huge, virtually universal form of casual sexism which is expressed in nearly every house. Any man who thinks it's OK to live in a household where the woman does the overwhelming majority of all the housework, childcare and family admin is a woman-hater. If he weren't, it would agonise him to live in such an unequal and ( Read more... )