by Christie | Oct 4, 2018 | Social Issues
Wow. What a crazy couple of weeks with the Kavanaugh SCOTUS thing. What was a growing concern blew up into a full-fledged social movement of #metoo proportions. The news and social media have been loaded with stories from Kavanaugh’s past, accusations from women...
by Christie | Oct 25, 2016 | Social Issues
This has been a big year for awareness about sexual assault and sexism. The Stanford rape case with Brock Turner made a huge impact on women and men everywhere by painting a vivid picture of the realities of rape and how we as a society allow it to continue. And...
by Christie | Jun 24, 2016 | Social Issues
The Orlando tragedy. A friend posted a tweet about investigators at the site having to tune out the sound of ringing cell phones, the victims’ loved ones desperately looking for them. Upsetting, to say the least. There are a lot of issues with this tragedy: the...
by Christie | Jun 10, 2016 | Social Issues
I rarely talk politics. I rarely post political memes on Facebook. In nearly a decade of blogging, I don’t think I’ve ever written about politics. But I have to make an exception today. Because something amazing has happened. Hillary Clinton has clinched...
by Christie | Jun 7, 2016 | Social Issues
I first came across the Stanford assault case on Facebook. One friend posted about it, then another, then another. Women and men. All disgusted. The nutshell: a woman went to a Stanford campus party, only to wake up and be told she’d been sexually assaulted. The...
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