The image that stays with me most from the blockbuster superhero action film The Avengers is not the thrilling climax when the hero uses all his power to wrest a nuclear missile away from its collision course with Manhattan and up into space, where it explodes a waiting battleship of nasty intergalactic invaders—although that was [...]
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Give mothers the respect–and the financial compensation–they deserve
It truly is disheartening to hear a supposedly progressive woman proclaim that a fulltime mother “never worked a day in her life.” Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen deserves all the flack she’s been getting since she made that statement yesterday on national media. On the other hand, it’s also disheartening to see how the male-dominated Democratic [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on April 13, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/give-mothers-the-respect-and-the-financial-compensation-they-deserve/
Homage to Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich has just died at 82 years of age. That is a good long life, and it is truly inspiring how active she remained until the end, publishing and mentoring so many of us who follow in her path. Although she was primarily a poet, there is an essay of hers that has remained [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on March 28, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/homage-to-adrienne-rich/
Women Must Stand Up For Peace & Security
A deranged soldier, armed with gun and knife, walks off the base into the nearby small town, and massacres 16 people, including 9 children. No, it’s not the plot of the latest Schwarzenegger movie. It’s real life in Afghanistan. Or Oslo, Norway. Or Homs, Syria. Or the local high school or university in Anytown, USA. [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on March 14, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/women-must-stand-up-for-peace-security/
Starving women, American chic style
Barely have the baubles of the Oscars faded into Hollywood history, when the bleak news of the real world comes flooding back in. School shooting in a high school cafeteria in Ohio. Keystone XL pipeline permit back on the table. Rick Santorum is arguing against the separation of church and state, and thumbing his nose [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 27, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/starving-women-american-chic-style/
Coming to Voice, Saving the Planet
Yesterday acclaimed psychologist Carol Gilligan paid a visit to the class I am currently co-teaching at Bard College at Simon’s Rock with theater professor Karen Beaumont, “Human Rights, Activism and the Arts.” Gilligan’s ground-breaking book, In A Different Voice, was the first to examine the psychological development of girls. Yes, you read that right. Before [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 17, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/coming-to-voice-saving-the-planet/
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