Check out this website for excerpts from a wonderful new book by Kathleen Dean Moore: Words of Comfort.
(from Dr. Moore’s website, riverwalking.com)
Description of Wild Comfort
In an effort to make sense of the deaths in quick succession of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of solitary [...]
Follow-up article to my letter to the editor- published in OSU Barometer today. See original and comments here.
My letter to the editor (“Concerning Lookers and Gawkers: Back off Fellas- November 3, 2009) was written to catalyze a dialogue on the issue of unwanted male attention.
When we see it as acceptable for men to think with [...]
My letter was published in the Barometer today. Click here to view the original publication. I’m interested in people’s anonymous thoughts and reactions for a class project–please post a comment here!
Concerning lookers and gawkers: Back off fellas
Guys, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the women you see every day are in college. They have [...]
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but I waited to put this post up until the end of the month as a way to remind folks that these issues are always with us. It’s great that there is a month of concentrated action and attention paid to breast cancer. That being said, let’s not let [...]
Um, I don’t know about this. While I agree that climate change is everyone’s issue, so it is necessary to get this issue in the mainstream, I would have thought that folks would see that bribing men with a peep show is not the way to call people to meaningful action.
more about “Supermodels [...]
A Letter to the Editor of OSU Barometer, Student Newspaper
Many young men invested deeply in proving their sexual prowess see our college campuses as a hunting grounds. Guys, I don’t know if you’ve noticed or not, but the women that you see everyday are in college. They have more important things to be thinking about [...]
Evidence shows that both the work that women do as well as women themselves are devalued. The wage gap of seventy cents to the dollar shows this. What is the cause of this social inequality? Is it because society undervalues the sectors of work and labor that have traditionally been viewed as feminine, or does [...]
People living near some coal power plant landfills are at a risk for cancer that is two-thousand times higher than federal standards. Arsenic seeps into the ground water and is seen at levels eighteen times higher than EPA limits. Other folks turn on the tap and the water coming out of the tap smells [...]
“We accept our impurity with some kind of generosity”
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