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Oct 20, 20214 min read
Bringing attention to male survivors of sexual abuse
I was driving home from work the other day and heard a story on NPR about former University of Michigan football player Jon Vaughn ...
Oct 10, 20214 min read
Our language is making us less safe
I recently attended a conference focused on issues of violence, abuse, and trauma, and listened to an impassioned speaker attempt to...
Sep 12, 20218 min read
Check your feminism....
The Universe recently handed me two books simultaneously that have given me a LOT to think about. I heard an interview on NPR with Rafia...
Aug 26, 20213 min read
Let's get clitorate!
In honor of the arrival of my beautiful "clitoring" from PenelopiJones , I thought I would share some facts about the wonderful, amazing...
Aug 15, 20214 min read
Come as you are....
I recently saw Emily Nagoski present at a conference about the science behind her revised and updated book, Come as You Are: The...
Aug 8, 20215 min read
AG Letitia James puts Governor Cuomo's thinking errors on blast
I’d like to start by saying that I don’t know Governor Andrew Cuomo . We’ve never met, and I’ve never treated him. The only information...
Aug 1, 20213 min read
Stealth sexual harm
What are some of the ways that sexually harmful behavior flies under the radar in our day-to-day lives? What I want us also to be...
Jul 25, 20213 min read
Teach kids bodily autonomy
Working with adults who have committed sexual offenses, this is a behind-the-scenes issue I see lurking in a lot of the offenses where an...
Jul 18, 20213 min read
Could YOU spot sexual violence?
Sexual violence is a sexual behavior that someone commits or attempts to commit against a person who is not consenting, or who is for...
Jul 11, 20214 min read
Ditch playing hard to get, talk a LOT more about consent
Playing Hard to Get The concept of “playing hard to get” feels to me like it’s everywhere, and it’s an ongoing effort for me to remove it...
Jul 5, 20217 min read
No, YOU smile.....
I often find myself getting irritated about some of the things men do that seem to be ingrained in our culture. And when I say this, I...
Jun 27, 20214 min read
Happy Pride to Incarcerated LGBTQ Older Adults
As Pride Month comes to a close, I’ve been thinking about some folks who likely aren’t getting much of a chance to celebrate: LGBTQ older...
Jun 18, 20213 min read
Who cares what some white lady has to say about Juneteenth?
If that's what you're thinking about some white lady (me) writing a blog about Juneteenth, I'm with you. Who cares, indeed? My voice is...
Jun 13, 20215 min read
Thoughts about "How to Raise a Feminist Son," by Sonora Jha
I am not raising a son, or any offspring of any gender, for that matter. Still, I was curious what Jha had to say about what raising a...
Jun 5, 20215 min read
Just because you don't know about it, doesn't mean it's not happening: Campus IPV and SV
I was contacted recently by the Student Affairs office of a local college. They had a student who had been removed from campus due to...
May 29, 20216 min read
Thoughts on “Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence,” by Tanya Selvaratnam
I was so immersed in this book that It took me less than 24 hours to read, and I dog-eared so many pages it almost became useless to mark...
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