Slap her.  That’s right – I didn’t want to hold you in suspense any longer.  None of this ‘teaser sentence’ stuff where you are halfway through the blog post before you get the answer that you’ve been waiting for. The answer is: slap her.  At least, that’s what a new video game, "Duke Nukem Forever" (set to [...]

Estrogen pills can be utilized by both men and women for different reasons, but even with regular use in women to alter their fertility patterns, mistakes can nevertheless be made in birth control methods.   1. Not Using Protection This can be one of the biggest mistakes. Men who avoid using condoms are at an [...]

Reading Materials: Who doesn’t love NYC? A magic place where everything can happen and "the lights will inspire you". The new book "Heart of the City" by Ariel Savar includes nine stories of love and serendipity on the streets of New York. For more information click here. Elizabeth Taylor died on Wednesday March 23rd at [...]

In one week, I plan to be sitting in Nationals Park watching the season opener of the Nationals.  I’ve been waiting several long, cold months for this!  Baseball is one of the few sports I really enjoy watching, live or on tv.  It is also one of the only sports both my boyfriend and I [...]

One year after health care reform became law, I want to reflect on the difference it has made in my life. Without health care reform, I would not be here today—literally. Alive? Well, yes. Interning in Washington, DC? Definitely not. When I graduated last spring, I started looked for a job in bioethics or advocacy [...]

Yesterday, fellow blogger Maggie Arden wrote a post called "Words Matter" on Fem2.0 about the use of language to devalue women. She was right about the idea that our every day language and the portrayal of women even in just the written media contributes to the overall discrimination of women. But the problem is even more [...]

At one point we were in an age of political correctness, yet now it seems we are forgetting that words matter. Or at least some people are forgetting it. We hear about people misspeaking, making clarifications and apologies for inappropriate things said. I’ve been reading the book When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American [...]

Have you had the chance to read Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn? The book has been making the rounds of the feminist community, and for good reason. Kristof and WuDunn look at three of the greatest problems facing women worldwide: sex trafficking, gender-based violence, and maternal mortality. Kristof and WuDunn evaluate [...]

This past week, I had the privilege of attending two conferences about women’s rights – the CARE National Conference and Celebration and the Feminist Majority Foundation’s National Young Feminist Leadership Conference.  Both conferences featured keynote speakers and issue advocacy workshops, and then culminated in a day of lobbying on Capitol Hill.  While the conferences touched [...]

Reading Materials The new book  "Chick Lit and Postfeminism " by Dr. Stephanie Harzewski examines bestsellers such as Bridget Jones’ Diary, The Devil Wears Prada and Sex and the City though the microscope of gender relations in the modern UK and USA. For more information, click here.  Ntozake Shang in her new book "For Colored Girls" is [...]