Lawmakers have always set limits on how people take their sexual pleasures, and they have doled out a range of controls and punishments to enforce them.
In the romantic transition from online chats to real-life meetings, the reality inevitably turns out more than you planned on and less than you had hoped for.
Transgender people take an overwhelmingly disproportionate amount of abuse and harassment. That's why it's awesome when they're depicted positively on TV.
If prescribing to dogmatic absolutes worked, then the most conservative Christian red states wouldn’t have the highest rates of teen pregnancy, divorce and porn consumption.
Deborah Feldman grew up in Brooklyn's Satmar Hasidic Jewish community, then secretly enrolled in college, left her husband and her family, and became a feminist blogger.
James Gustave Speth, Orion Magazine. March 1, 2012.
The data is piling up to confirm that we’re Number One, but in exactly the way we don’t want to be—at the bottom. Where did we go wrong and what can we do about it?
Channing Kennedy, Colorlines.com. January 30, 2012.
"The Help" is building Oscar buzz despite historical mistruths -- while white/male Oscar contenders derail serious conversation about structural racism in Hollywood.
In 2008, young voters were the big story. Both parties will attempt to woo them this time around--but are they paying attention to the issues that matter?
When encampments are shut down, it's not just the physical turf that's lost; a social experiment in working out the issues that have divided people for centuries gets crimped.
Jill Iscol, Jimmie Briggs, AlterNet. November 8, 2011.
In this excerpt from the recently released book "Hearts on Fire," Jimmie Briggs discusses founding the Man Up Campaign, a global initiative to stop violence against women.
