It’s interesting how we can use the same word in so many ways, don’t you think? Right, right. But I don’t really mean homonyms or things like that. […]
Three Jobs
I’ve held five jobs in my life. The two in food service – working as a waiter and at Taco Bell – were simply because I was a […]
Busting Sexual Categories
The Michigan’s Womyn’s Festival (though, amusingly, it’s spelled “Women’s” in many mainstream news outlets, despite it being a proper noun) began admitting openly transgendered people in 2006. For […]
Honoring the Dead: Memorial Day
Originally posted June 02, 2005. Reprinted (with permission) in the Dayton Daily News on June 15, 2005. This work is under a Creative Commons license. You can also […]
Resistance
A male co-worker of mine called a breast-feeding co-worker a “heifer” today. To be fair, he maintains that he said “Bessie” instead; I don’t think that makes a […]
Social Roles
Comte and Durkheim thought that society’s basic unit was not the individual, but the family – a small group. There is plenty of evidence for their assertion, and […]