Believing that galvanizing enough young people to vote would convince the Democratic Party establishment to back Sanders was the movement’s biggest mistake
Toronto’s former Poet Laureate priest read his work with what can only be described as gusto, but there was also humility that reminded of Leonard Cohen
As a secular Jew, I never felt I had much to fear in terms of hate crimes until I saw the swastikas flying in Charlottesville
Can calling me a crazy kike now be considered within the bounds of social norms? Wouldn’t that be the patriotic thing to do?
Mainstream media have been trying for months to unpack the psyche of Trump supporters – nearly every person I spoke with was on the one hand very friendly, and on the other really damn racist.
For some victims of violence, social media is becoming the place to find community justice outside the courts
Call out friends whose idea of a “joke” is to make sexist remarks. Talk to your male friends about how to be masculine without being misogynist. Combat rape culture and
Learning that men I’ve shared the same stage with and chatted with at readings have acted in abusive ways toward women is difficult to hear
Prominent figures support the movement, but is boycotting Israel really the key to ending the crisis in Gaza?
The attitudes Elliot Rodger expressed about women are extreme, but his sense of male entitlement to women’s bodies is not just something he got from pick-up artists’ websites
Nothing will change if we don’t respond to allegations of abuse made by the vulnerable against the powerful
I could almost hear my Marxist Jewish grandfather’s ghostly whisper: “Hey, mashugana, what the fuck are you doing?
