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Is this What a Feminist Looks Like?
On Saturday, I went to see the Brown Girls Burlesque troupe at the esteemed New York cabaret space Joe’s Pub. One of my favorite moments in an action-packed show was seeing one of the dancers do a...
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The Magazine as Trans-Media
UK Wired ran this chart of how their brand is both a magazine and a trans-media company, related to how often you want to consume information and via what devices. Clever.
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Women, Work, and the Art of Receiving
Receiving. In order for women to achieve, we must receive. Part of the gender gap in leadership is work/life issues related to women’s roles in families as caregivers; part is discrimination; and part,...
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Time’s Gay Marriage Cover Lacks Color
Time magazine has produced dual covers on gay marriage: Time Magazines dual covers on Same Sex Marriage Some people will critique them for being (voyeuristic or artistic?) kissing shots. I of course...
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“Mothers and Others”
via www.livemint.comAs publisher Urvashi Butalia writes in the anthology Of Mothers And Others: Stories, Essays, Poems society has its prism on motherhood and childlessness… one that may not square the...
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3Q: Daryle Conners, Writing on Location
Daryle Conners is a filmmaker, former video game designer, and cultural maverick. One of her current projects, with Marya Sea Kaminski, is “Writing on Location” — an intimate event series that takes...
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On Terrorism: Being in the Game
After 9/11, I was talking to my brother and he passed on something a friend said — that the U.S. was no longer the referee, but a player in the global security game. Of course, not just any player. We...
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Crown Heights: It’s Complicated
Sometimes I just can’t, like the dogs in this silly but addictive photo spread. Like, right now, I just can’t deal with the competing parts of my self-interest and identity that are witnessing the...
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My Interview with Mareshia Rucker, Integrated Prom Organizer
If you’ve been following the story about Wilcox County, Georgia, still holding segregated proms, take heart at my interview with integrated prom organizer Mareshia Rucker for The Root. As she puts it:...
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A Graphic Error? Or the Racialization of Terror?
Gotta give it up to Gawker for this one, with their wry line being: “If the terrorists won’t do us the courtesy of being brown, no matter—we’ll just make them brown, instead.” To be fair, the...
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Friends and Asynchronous Child-Rearing
I’ve been thinking of late of starting a family, by birth or adoption. As a woman in her forties, I’m on the far side of the birth-age bell-curve, though hardly all the way at the edge. I drew this...
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Solving the Re-Segregation of American Media.
Courtesy: Internews Network. Image: Charles Eckert. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic Every few years I write a piece on diversity and the media… a...
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Support Innovating Women, Who Are Transforming Technology
Did you know that venture-backed firms led by women are less likely to fail and produce higher returns than ones run by men? Or that technology companies with women on their boards also outperform...
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When Interns Should Be Paid: A #ProjectIntern Explainer from Pro Publica
by Blair Hickman and Christie Thompson ProPublica, June 14, 2013, 1:05 p.m. Are today’s internships a grim affair? This week, a federal judge ruled that Fox Searchlight violated minimum wage laws for...
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Ode to the Black Tiger Mother
Me and My Tiger Mom (shortly after my sis was born) When I read my friend Andrew Lam‘s graduation speech, I laughed in recognition. Although he — author, most recently, of Bird of Paradise Lost — was...
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Alec Ross: Can Connectivity Ease the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict?
Alec Ross, the former senior advisor of innovation at the State Department under Secretary Hillary Clinton, has put forth an intriguing proposal for helping ease Mideast tensions. In a piece for...
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Bus ‘Em to the Border
Credit: qbac07/Flickr Creative CommonNo, the headline of this piece does not refer to undocumented immigrants. I’m talking about Congress: the men and women who are right now deciding the future of the...
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Post SupCt: [How] Can You Compare Black/Brown and Gay Rights?
Please check out my piece on The Root, in which I did a fairly exhaustive set of interviews to look at the issue of how voting rights and the demise of DOMA were compared, sometimes poorly. What’s the...
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An Open Letter on Diversity to Washington Post Buyer Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos’s letter to the Post’s staff Dear Mr. Bezos: Congratulations on buying the Washington Post. And no, I’m not saying that while waving you off into the sunset. I hope you succeed. It will be a...
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Two Years of Cancer (Not My Own)
This has been the Two Years of Cancer (Not My Own). That’s the title I’ve given a period in my life where close friends my age and a young family member, as well as a slew of acquaintances, battled...
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