Not true. There’s more red-tape, but people with tenure can absolutely be dismissed, you just may have to defer to some process/consensus within the academic leadership structure—and there’s the real issue. The Old Boys’ Club is alive and well on many campuses.
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So now men can’t even rape when they’ve spent the time and money to get advanced degrees and become professors? Read more

I want, so badly, for Trevor Noah to be good at this. Read more

I’m now picturing an Oregon version of Friday Night Lights about a small town where sport stacking is everything. Read more

I saw her talk at her (and my) alma mater Architectural Association in London. She was tough and powerful with a wry sense of humour. It was difficult to not sit up and listen to her, barbs and all. She was a woman and an Arab and did not conform to any of the stereotypes that abound in the discipline of… Read more

Architecture has been male-dominated since Imhotep. Regardless of whether her designs appealed to you, Hadid made a huge contribution to the field, and was truly impressive in her ability to succeed with the odds so incredibly stacked against her. I can’t wait to see what all the women she inspired in the field have… Read more

I am so saddened by this. This woman was a light to the world. For those interested in her life and work, please watch Alan Yentob’s Imagine: Zaha Hadid. My favourite work by her is in the museum she designed in Baku.

Because we saw this first...and different people work on different stories. Breathe and give it a minute. Read more

There is a long history of doctors dismissing women’s pain, and not treating people of color with the same standard of care as paler patients. I am sure that women of color do have trouble getting chronic pain treated and getting diagnosed if they get Lyme disease or suffer it’s after-effects. I am not at all sure… Read more

MD here. I promise I’m actually a good one and ALSO I actually had diagnosed Lyme disease as a kid, and got normal antibiotics. I have never met an MD who thinks that chronic Lyme has any real basis in medical fact, or as close to fact as you can get in medicine. Read more

Most MDs, myself included, would agree behind closed doors that chronic lyme, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue syndrome, as they are commonly diagnosed, are all different manifestations of depression. But people don’t want to hear that they’re depressed, and people get angry when you point out this truth. As the… Read more

Bear in mind that among ostensibly “pro-life” pregnant women who find out that they’re carrying Down Syndrome fetuses, at least 80% terminate. Read more

By the time women arrive at this decision, they generally have already done research on their options. These laws are just put in place to make it more difficult to access a legal medical procedure. Read more

The bill outlaws abortion for “a diagnosis or potential diagnosis of the fetus having Down syndrome or any other disability.” But is a “lethal fetal anomaly” exception clause. A woman must certify on a state form (yet to be written) that the fetus has lethal anomaly (what that might consist of is not clearly defined,…

Regardless of whether Amazon treats women fairly, I think it’s safe to say that they treat their warehouse employees terribly. And given that women and men are filling very different jobs at the company, I’m not sure how impressive it is that women and men in equivalent jobs earn similar amounts. One of the ways in… Read more

I feel for the little girl, pulled apart in all this mess.
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I was about to share that link because Garland’s performance is both a powerhouse and almost disturbingly manic. She sings the song like a woman possessed, marching into war. It’s incredible.

You need to hear Judy sing it. She sang it on “The Judy Garland Show” the week after Kennedy was killed. My phone won’t let me link to YouTube. Watch it.

2016: The year the Gender Gap becomes the Gender Tsangpo Canyon Read more

There are screenings coming up all over the country, go see it! http://www.trappeddocumentary.com Read more