Feminism in the Classroom...

Howdja like my hat? Via Candie_N @ Flickr I love teaching.  To an absurd degree.  I’d do it for free, even (which is good, because my pay is for shit).  This semester I have a couple of really fun classes, and thus far the kids seem engaged in the material and the discussions. And based on...

Lessons from Home...

Via Cayusa @ Flickr. I forget that I live in something of a progressive/feminist bubble, both in NYC and on the internet, so when I go to west to Small River Town to see my mom, I invariably get a little shellshocked about what I see and hear.  I hadn’t been there in two years, so it was perhaps...

Wisdom from MoDo...

No, really.  The Harpies are, generally speaking, un-fans of NYT columnist Maureen Dowd.  But as I’ve been musing over some life-changing decisions lately related to my career and financial security, I recalled another quote I remember reading somewhere.  I looked through my books of quotations,...

If You’re Asking, the Answer is P...

A lot of the people I regularly spend time with are, like me, without children (whether that was the plan or not), but I have many friends from different chapters of my life who do have kids–as many as four.  I see their photos online, on their blogs or Flickr streams or their Facebook pages or...