I’m actually not a big holiday person. Here in New York City, my Christmas ritual is a first-run movie and Chinese food. I spend Passover with friends in the back room of Katz’s Deli on the Lower East Side. For Thanksgiving, though, I do roast a turkey. When it comes to the holiday’s meaning and [...]
Tag: planned parenthood
November 24, 2011
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The ‘personhood’ amendment and misogyny in Mississippi | Ashley Sayeau
Growing up, my half-sister and I lived apart – I, with my mother in Chicago; she, with our father in Memphis. There is a highway connecting the cities that I have ridden countless times. It looks innocuous enough, draped mostly in corn, but I always knew it divided two worlds. For instance, when my sister [...]