Author: susanw

I have told personal stories here in the past about a childhood of abuse, an unwed pregnancy beaten out of me by my own mother,  being screwed while I cried by men who didn’t care about me, and a brief period...

The following is an excerpt from  Michael Lerner’s “The Left Hand of  God: Taking Our Country Back From the Religious Right”.  I have not bought his book yet, but I heard him speak this weekend....

We have been discussing our dissatisfaction with the strategies of our Democratic candidates: clever framing vs. plain truth, civil discussion vs. all out attack, strong statements of liberal values vs. courting of moderates. We...

OK, I’m not THAT good at it.  I always want to say, “What are you, NUTS ?  How can you continue to support that stupid, hypocritical……” etc., etc. But while discussing torture in Steven...

There was an interesting diary recently, equating the vicissitudes of of being male in “post feminist”  America with women’s on-going struggle for equality. The diarist blamed “female...