NYPD cops accused of raping an intoxicated woman after helping her home: The owner of the bar, Heather Millstone, 34, said she gave the district attorney’s office footage from a camera near the door of the bar on East 13th Street after two women arrived on Dec. 7 and said their friend had been attacked Read More
NYPD cops accused of raping an intoxicated woman after helping her home: The owner of the bar, Heather Millstone, 34, said she gave the district attorney’s office footage from a camera near the door of the bar on East 13th Street after two women arrived on Dec. 7 and said their friend had been attacked Read More
From Aperture: An estimated twenty thousand children were born of rapes that occurred during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Fifteen years later, the mothers of these children still face enormous challenges, among them, being stigmatized within their communities for bearing a child fathered by a Hutu militiaman. Over the past three years, photographer Jonathan Torgovnik has Read More
The perpetually wrong Keith Josef Adkins: I said this last week and I’ll say it again: women and others should be trying to school other women about domestic abuse. We spend way too much time hanging men in trees; but where’s the urgent advocacy to educate women? You know, to point out their patterns in Read More
I went looking this morning after I heard that TMZ had gotten a post-altercation photo of Rihanna from someone in the LAPD. From the beginning, in dissecting this case, the debate I had was often over the term “visible injuries.” My closest friend was skeptical, saying ‘women fight dirty and we don’t know what happened…she Read More
I went looking this morning after I heard that TMZ had gotten a post-altercation photo of Rihanna from someone in the LAPD. From the beginning, in dissecting this case, the debate I had was often over the term “visible injuries.” My closest friend was skeptical, saying ‘women fight dirty and we don’t know what happened…she Read More
Crossposted from slb’s site: I have so much to say about church since I stopped going regularly. Usually, I find myself grappling to adequately articulate it all. There’s a delicate balance between criticism and cruelty, especially when discussing “The Church,” an institution that doesn’t exactly welcome criticism of its practices. In church, I was indirectly Read More
Here is a link to a PDF of Berry’s 2005 article.
Tyler Perry is set release a film version of his play, Madea Goes to Jail, which I happened to watch with my family back home in Nashville over the Christmas holiday. TP flicks are best enjoyed as a community, because as you’re responding to your mother’s giggles about Madea’s swinging bosom, you can forget about Read More
Lilly Ledbetter with Barack Obama last year. Lilly Ledbetter worked in a Goodyear plant in Alabama for nearly two decades. It wasn’t until she was near retiring that she found out that her male co-workers in the same position made more than she did — a lot more. (She earned $3,727. Men in her position Read More
