By SARA CONRAD
The Times-Union
We’ve all ended a relationship in the worst possible way. I mean refusing to return phone calls is borderline inhumane, right? Well, we’re going to tell yo...Read More >
“I’m a feminist because everyone needs to look up the definition of a feminist: According to Webster’s dictionary, ‘Feminism is the doctrine advocating social, political, and...Read More >
OK, class, time for a quiz. True or False?
1. “Men are, by nature, violent, sexually predatory, and irresponsible” is a statement that could only have been penned by that notorious femi...Read More >
By REBECCA SANTANA
Associated Press
Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their office...Read More >
A person, very dear, is on his final journey.
All his family is gathered round. He is resting in his own home, where he raised his five children, with his loving wife and best friend. Fift...Read More >
How many times have I encountered women, especially in my age group and younger, say "I'm not a feminist, but..." and then go on to espouse feminist values. The frustration that f...Read More >
I just spent the last several minutes putting on makeup for a photo I'm having taken for a piece Sara is doing on inter-generational feminism (I can't wait to see how the article turns out, ...Read More >
Every Thursday afternoon, you could find Hazel and Violet Edwards, single sisters in their 50s, sitting in Dr. MacDonald’s small downtown office. Once a week, the optometrist traveled from a ...Read More >
Writing a romance novel can be hard.
Very hard.
Not actually hard like a slow, throbbing, erect dragon waiting to release its masculine fire inside you, but hard like difficult.
This is espec...Read More >
Back in college, I lived on a steady diet of frozen yogurt, falafel, and Simone de Beauvoir. She was my heroine, and her book The Second Sex was my Bible. I also read Germaine Greer and many obscure F...Read More >
By the ripe age of 21, every woman should be able to undo their own bra. As young girls fumbling our way through puberty, we are handed down an age-old technique for bra removal. This little behind...Read More >
In 1965, Dominican diplomat, race car driver, and general man about town Porfirio Rubirosa married his fifth wife, French actress Odile Rodin. He was a young 56. She was a mature 19. When interviewi...Read More >