Nora Ephron: A tribute and a question

I was saddened to learn of writer Nora Ephron’s death just a few hours after I claimed her as one of my girl crushes on The Writeous Babe Project blog. As I’ve said on several social media outlets already, Ephron showed me that my writing doesn’t have to be limited to one genre. I’ve started [...]

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It’s business but it’s culture

Despite the name of this blog, I rarely say anything about hair. But I heard something yesterday morning that irked me from a cultural and business perspective. I head a story on NPR’s Morning Edition about professional licensing. Jestina Clayton, who grew up in Sierra Leone and moved to the U.S. at 18, started a [...]

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Mothers not needed, equality achieved?

I heard a story the other day on NPR about the rise of single men becoming single dads by choice. Some of the men interviewed are single by choice and don’t seem to have many prospects for parenting partnerships with the mothers (or surrogates), with women in general, or with other men. I have mixed [...]

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Show Me the Vagina!

  If you inquired as to why #VaginaMovieLines was trending on Twitter on Thursday, June 14, you found out that Michigan state Rep. Lisa Brown was blocked from speaking on the state House floor, presumably as punishment for uttering the word “vagina” during a speech against a proposed ban on all abortions past 20 weeks. [...]

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Virginity as a social construct?

“I don’t really believe in virginity.”   I heard “The F Word” blogger Holly Combe say this during a segment on BBC World News yesterday morning. She had a slightly different view of virginity than did Miriam Babooram, a woman who, at 33, is a virgin and has decided not to have sex before marriage. [...]

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