Feminist Fractions

Longtime readers of this blog may recall that when I went back into teaching a few years ago, I dealt with enormous ex-activist’s guilt. I felt like I was letting down my fellow advocates in the massively important spaces of women’s rights work and relationship and sexual violence prevention. To this day, those causes are still hugely important to me.

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Preparing for Hurricane Hilary

I’m a math teacher, not a meteorologist. But growing up on the Texas Gulf Coast, I experienced several hurricanes and tropical storms, so I thought it might help some of my SoCal friends to hear how I’m preparing for what is currently Hurricane Hilary. I say “currently” because most weather forecasters anticipate the storm will weaken a lot before it arrives in California in earnest, likely creating only tropical storm conditions instead of hurricane conditions in Southern California.

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F.A.D. Repost: 2017’s “To the Brave 22 Women Who Told Us What Trump Did to Them”

TW/CW: Sexual and verbal violence.

I first posted this piece back in January of 2017, the same month Donald John Trump was sworn into office as the 45th President of the United States. Since then, the number of his accusers has grown beyond the number noted in the title above.

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