It has taken me a year to come to grips with my sadness over the women’s suffrage centennial. Like Ellen Goodman and Lyn Scherr, I expected “confetti and cocktails, triumphant gatherings of women and men. White pantsuits and a red rose. A national shout-out to three generations of [brilliant, visionary, heroic] suffrage leaders.” But the …
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After Dave Goldberg’s tragic sudden death on a treadmill last week, numerous condolences and accolades poured in from around the world. Many praised his leadership as CEO of SurveyMonkey. Several lauded him as a technological visionary. And of course, he was always listed as Sheryl Sandberg’s beloved husband. However, one surprise among all the tributes …
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I have been briefly following the controversy that erupted following Michelle Goldberg’s cover story for The Nation entitled “Feminism’s Toxic Twitter Wars.” The premise for the story was that a group of feminists formed a group to work toward getting funding for online feminism (something Kathleen and I definitely support!). However, after they issued their report on the …