The Depp defamation case against Heard, its conduct, its popular reception, and its outcome are consummately disturbing, coming, as they do, as part of a tidal wave of #MeToo and #TimesUp backlash. In her opinion piece for the Guardian, ‘The Amber Heard-Johnny Depp trial was an orgy of misogyny,’ Moira…

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been among the most vocal accusers of Democrats for various ‘evils,’ such as rampant pedophilia, adultery…

In 1965, when I was 13 and mired, by my parents, in the socially noxious American South (Miami), I was so incensed by the aesthetic discrimination brought to bear in racist assaults on Black identities, images, and persons–discrimination that flew in the face of all evidence to the contrary–that made…

Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan have been found guilty of all counts in the federal trial of the three men charged with violating Ahmaud Arbery’s civil rights. …

In fairy tales the world over, the ‘little people’ — the ants, the birds…the barnyard animals, wild bunnies or wolves — help the innocent, magically protected, sweet, kind and noble hero or heroine. …

The Church has a LOT to answer for, including but not limited to centuries of suffering — the pogroms, crusades, inquisitions, so-called ‘witch-hunts’ (excuses for clerics to kill Jews, gypsies, homosexuals , free thinkers, scientists and women as ‘heretics’ en-masse), genocides in the Americas, Residential Schools, institutionalized mental and emotional…

I’m not sure that the ‘pollution’ of menstruation is ever fully separate from the idea of essential femininity in the minds of misogynists or misogynist systems. How could it be? It still occupies a significant placement among the Mosaic purity laws of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, and gets ample treatment in…

There’s a phobic glitch deep inside Donald Trump that I don’t think has ever been given enough attention. He’s obsessed with Feminine Blood, Polluted Signifiers, Sex-Hate Triggers, and Menstruation. In the early morning hours of June 29th, 2017, the Madman-in-Chief Tweeted this: “I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of…

Reading David Sedaris, besides making me laugh out loud repeatedly and at length, causes me to feel better about myself. For instance, it makes me feel less stupid for having slipped on ice and broken my arm, less of a klutz slowly picking away at a keyboard with my left…