We as a culture need to take a step back and ask ourselves why “guilty pleasure” is a way we write about women’s books, as if women should be ironically ashamed by things that are associated with women.
When I try to speak or write about what’s happening at the border––the official policy of tearing away young children, some of them babies, from their asylum-seeking parents––my thoughts turn into an incoherent roar of grief, anger and impotence. I am reduced to a mass of unformed feelings.
We need to fire perpetrators, but this alone won’t eliminate the abuse of workers. Changing the nature of contemporary work from the bottom up could.
It’s not the bikini-wearers vs. the maxi skirts, the flirts vs. the prudes. If you target one woman, you implicitly target all the women.
Sarah Seltzer’s remarks at Lilith’s Spring issue launch party.
When public discrimination is both gendered and given the blessing of religious authorities, why do always we hear calls to accommodate segregation?
Simmering oppression and fear rising to the surface, often with violence, from the first bright mornings of June through the dog days of August.
The good mother. She bakes her own challah and breastfeeds.
Why anti-vice activism comes down to protecting male privilege.
This is 100% a novel about my world, and I recognize its cast quite intimately.
