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  • Felled by "The Ten-Year Nap"

    Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2008 9:34 PM By Emily Bazelon

    I'm sure Marjorie is right that we don't know the half of the Walkers' feud—how can we, since we're only hearing Rebecca's side? And I agree with Marjorie and Maureen that feminism should entail a little effort to think from the perspective of a woman Read More...

  • Mommy Wars

    Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2008 1:28 AM By Marjorie Valbrun

    The Walkers' feud is way too complex and layered for us to assume we really understand what is going on between them. Clearly there's family dysfunction, old resentments, past disappointments—all the stuff that most families deal with on some level or Read More...

  • Easier Said Than Lived

    Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 6:21 PM By Maureen Sullivan

    I find it a little ironic that we're so ready to tear Rebecca Walker apart in the same forum where some of us sympathized with the plight of Ashley Dupree. No matter how gross the lot of prostitution, Dupree chose that (although we didn't know until later Read More...

  • The Whole Race Deck

    Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 3:44 PM By Bonnie Goldstein

    Welcome, Kim, and I’m glad you brought up Alice Walker's “womanist” position. Her Root essay last March, “Lest We Forget: An Open Letter to My Sisters Who Are Brave,” endorsing Barack Obama stayed with me a long time. Not just because I found Walker’s Read More...
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