This Father’s Day, Make Time to Have “The Talk” with Your Daughters (And, with your Sons)
For the past several weeks since the death of George Floyd, I’ve been trying to hold the space of compassion and empathy with hope and action. Time and time again, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how broad the range of responses have been to supporting #BlackLivesMatter, from both my personal and professional network, and how...
“10 Feminist Podcasts You Need To Listen To”
Thank you to the End FGM European Network for including the en(gender)ed podcast on this list of venerable feminist podcasts! What a surprise to wake up to this honor today. While our podcast started as a response to the advocacy work I do in NYC, it has grown to something much bigger, that includes...
10 Lessons “The Walking Dead” Offers To Help Us Through This Pandemic
At this point, all fifty states local governments have declared some sort of lockdown to control the spread and manage the healthcare response to the COVID-19 crisis. For many states, easing of stay-at-home restrictions and the gradual re-opening of businesses has punctuated differences in how people are navigating the tension between returning to some semblance...
Mother’s Day 2020 Episode Look Back
Mother’s Day, like many other holidays, can generate mixed feelings for many people. For some who lost their mothers, it elicits a sense of loss. For others who have conflicted relationships with their mothers, the day may present an unwelcome journey down memory lane they would rather not take. For protective moms whose efforts to...
This Video is Authentic Gaslighting — not “Authentic Love”
A therapist friend recently shared the below video with me. While I was watching with her, I couldn’t help but pepper my viewing with angry interruptions to correct, challenge and/or contextualize their broad brush strokes that essentially rendered women responsible for patriarchal oppression against men. From Authentic Love Berlin For those of us who...
What do Jeff Bezos, Bernie Sanders, Karl Lagerfeld, and Phylicia Rashad have in common?
I’m a fan of TV family dramas, from Parenthood, to Party of Five, to Little House and to, of course, NBC’s This is Us. On yesterday’s episode of This is Us, fans of the show got an in depth look at one of the main character’s childhood back story — Phylicia Rashad make her debut as Beth’s mother, a story line that foreshadows...
