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When I was 22, my undergraduate professors started to ask where I’d be going next. Everyone assumed it would be … Continue reading Why I Love Grad School, or Please Talk Career Options with Your Daughters
Over the past eight months, about a dozen female celebrities have leapt from the feminist bandwagon as if it were a … Continue reading Why We Still Need Feminism
Nothing like old love to remind you of who you have been, and who you have become. So I just … Continue reading The Hazards–and Rewards–of Literature for the Feminist
And a big part of this is on men. We need you–as our fathers, brothers, friends, and lovers–to encourage us … Continue reading The World Needs More Ambitious Women
I inherited my mother’s rage. And she had a lot to be angry about. Growing up in small-town Kennewick in … Continue reading Rage Against the Dying of the Light
