Violence Hits Home, pt 2
Violence is nonsense. While people often deploy violence for rational purposes, violence itself is the opposite of sense. Every abused child and battered woman knows this. You’re arguing with your...
View ArticleThe Return of “Read This Or Else”
What does it feel like to live through a genocide? My student Chiemela’s father knows: He was a boy in Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War, which according to a reporter on the scene in 1968,...
View ArticleThe Real War on Christmas
I was about to blog something sarcastic about the fantasy “War on Christmas” decried by Fox News and the rest of the right when the real news stopped me in my tracks. In Nigeria, Islamic militants...
View ArticleTo Be Real, part 1
I teach a community college course called “Women Respond to Violence” in which we examine varieties of violence and the multiplicity of ways that women (and their male allies) have struggled to...
View ArticleMass Assassinations as Natural Disasters
Hamid Karzai is demanding an explanation for the “assasination” of numerous Afghan civilians, including several little girls, by a rampaging US soldier who evidently just went door to door, shooting...
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