Adoption is still offered up as an alternative for couples facing infertility, or as an idea of offering a permanent home to a child healing from past traumas, or as a motivation or desire to provide a home for a child in need. For those individuals who grew up never knowing anyone who was adopted, you […]
Workplace Harassment and Male Allies
Like most women between 1960 and the late 1990s we grew up regularly listening to the misogynistic rhetoric used by our male family members, college professors, and in the workplace. Most women never gave much thought to just how inappropriate the hostility was that we faced on a regular basis while navigating our encounters with […]
Do You Have to Be Part of a Movement to Be Impactful?
So much of our lives are spent working, raising our family, and then taking care of our aging parents later on. If you weren’t raised in an activist family, you may have grown up believing that this is something “those other people” do. Besides, who has time in their busy lives for activism or to […]
A Letter to the First Man I Ever Loved, My Dad – Part II
In my last posting titled “A Letter to the First Man I Ever Loved, My Dad” I wrote about the development of young girls and how our fathers are our first role models. In life we develop a strong sense of our value and worth (good or bad) through this lens. I also talked about […]