Was It Rape? Or Was It Just Your Generation?

A mother tells her wedding night story to her child attempting to scare her into virtue. Her effort is later unpacked as the adult daughter tries to understand if her father was a rapist. The childhood story is examined through varying generational viewpoints on sex, generational trauma, and roles in marriage. The generation that never discussed sex set the stage to never discuss sexual assault. The story is the beginning building block of creating a repeated generational cycle of sexual assault through the systemic belief that women’s purpose is to be subservient to men.

Titillate and Explain—I’ll Wait!

Come on, ladies, spit it out! What’s your turn-on? What kinds of images get your juices flowing? Do you realize that your sexual viewing appetite tells you more about yourself than anything else can? It is your true you!

Is Gender "Equality" a Good Idea After All?

As the US celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted white women (yes, only white women!) the right to vote, it's a good idea to make sure we're 100% clear on what we mean with "equality," and whether it's a worthy endeavor after all.I won't beat around the bush, I believe that dreaming of gender equality is dreaming too small. And I'm not the only one to think this way. Renowned feminist cultural critic bell hooks in the classic Feminism Is for Everybody (2000) criticized the narrow view that equates feminism with gender equality, stating that feminism is, rather, "a movement to end sexism…"