“She is an excellent storyteller, and this is a very worthwhile read.” Judge, 27th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards Yesterday I received two emails that blew me away. One said my first mystery, The Loggerhead Murders, had advanced to round two in the 2019 Writer’s Digest Self Published eBook Awards contest. The second email […]
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Miss Period badges: another bad idea
A women’s health store in Japan came up with the idea that its staff would wear “physiology badges” when having their periods. Thank goodness there was backlash when the public got word of it. Now the store is reconsidering its menstruation labeling, euphemistically called Miss Period. This is a country where some companies forbid their […]
University women swimmers told to ‘grow a thicker skin’
Three members of Niagara University’s women’s swim team are suing the university for ignoring their complaints about male swim team harassment. The women and men’s teams share a coach, who turns a deaf ear to ritualized jeers and taunts from male swimmers. The harassment involves body shaming and sexual innuendo. This story absolutely sickens me. […]
Will Carli Lloyd kick her way into NFL?
“There is no reason why a woman could not do this.” Two NFL teams have contacted Carli Lloyd, 37, a star on both the 2015 and 2019 U.S. Women’s World Cup championship teams after seeing a video of her nailing a field goal from 55 yards out. Lloyd was just playing around at the Eagles’ […]
Today is Women’s Equality Day
Today is Women’s Equality Day, commemorating the 1920 certification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that gave women the right to vote—in theory. In 1973 the U.S. Congress designated August 26 to mark the conclusion of a massive, peaceful, civil rights movement by women that began in 1848 at the world’s first women’s rights […]
New woman’s suffrage book published
Barbara Berenson, a recently retired Senior Attorney at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, has published Woman Suffrage Movement: Revolutionary Reformers,” about the fundamental role Massachusetts activists played in the movement over the course of three generations. “It’s important to have a knowledge of history,” Berenson said. “What that has shown us is that a step […]
