Mostly, I think efforts on "Work-Life Balance" are stupid. Or, rather, deflective. They tend to be pitched to women (because men, in general, are doing less in terms of their "life"--less housework, less childrearing, less emotional labor, and less work at maintaining their appearance), and they are blamed for finding the arbitrary demand to work a... Continue Reading →

Donald Trump can be rightly blamed for ruining or attempting to ruin a lot of important things: trust in the Electoral College, public education, the environment, health care, free speech, women's lives. They are all far more important than my personal complaints, but, on this Presidents Day (a holiday that I once loved out of... Continue Reading →

In law school, you spend a lot of time defining the walls of an argument, then finding the windows. What is the limit of the law? Is there an exception to that limit? It's tremendously fun (I think--tortes was my favorite class--but it may also be one of the reasons lawyers have such a high divorce... Continue Reading →

Content alert: religiously-justified violence against and neglect of children Thanks to the Weber State University Sociology and Anthropology Department for inviting me to speak at a brown bag event recently, focusing on family life and children and youth in Westboro Baptist Church. The students were eager listeners who asked great questions. At the time of... Continue Reading →

Thanks to the many of you who shared your book, film, and article selections; assignments; discussion starters; and more in response to my request for materials about teaching in the time of Trump. Here are some highlights: A homeschooling friend concerned about science has shifted how she and her junior high student organize their day,... Continue Reading →

I'm so happy to have an essay appear alongside work by my KU friends Hannah Britton, DaMaris Hill, and Liam Lair--plus contributions by  Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, bell hooks, Marilyn Frye, CJ Pascoe, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Gloria Anzaldúa, Gloria Steinem, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Gorilla Girl, Bikini Kill, Rosamarie Garland-Thomson, and dozens of other fantastic authors... Continue Reading →

Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham and founder of Samaritan's Purse, an evangelical relief agency serving children worldwide, was an early Trump fan and a proponent of the Muslim ban. When asked this past weekend how he could square the mission of Samaritan's Purse with a refusal to allow Syrian refugees to come to the US,... Continue Reading →