Lori Day
HuffPost
Newburyport, MA, United States
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The Seussian Absurdity of Texas Abortion Laws
Deep in the Texas desert, some people say, if you look deep enough you can still see today, where Planned Parenthood once stood just as long as it could before somebody lifted women's rights away. → Read More
Here's What It Would Look Like If We Treated Our Sons How We Treat Our Daughters, From Birth through College
Some folks might be surprised to realize how gendered we treat our children – and how that affects their adulthood! Share this article if you know someone who needs to think through this stuff. → Read More
Finding New Friends After 50 Is The Holy Grail
I have almost all new friends now, at 51. The ones I spent so many years with -- bound together by our children's friendships -- scattered like dandelion seeds to the wind when my marriage ended. Only Ebola instills more fear of contagion than the di... → Read More
Aging While Female Is Not Your Worst Nightmare
If not for the mirrors in my house, I would be very confused about what changed and why. Young women, you'll experience this too, some day. You'll catch your reflection and your breath at the same time and be abruptly reminded that your exterior no l... → Read More
If Our Sons Were Treated Like Our Daughters
Come with me. Let's open the door to a parallel universe. Here in this parallel world, the rules are different because gender roles are flipped. Loving parents and teachers accept this strange culture as if it's not so bad, or perhaps even good.... → Read More
The problem with saying 'all women are beautiful'
Whilst It's admirable to say all women are beautiful, the focus is still on females physical appearance, leading to the collective objectification of women. → Read More
Grownups: You Can Read YA, and Why Not Read It With Your Kids?
Just as there are good and bad adult novels, there are good and bad YA novels. To snidely pan the entire YA genre as being an embarrassment for any adult to enjoy is both small-minded and myopic.... → Read More
The Story of Ferdinand: Talking With Kids About the First Children's Book on Gender Nonconformity
The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf was published in 1936, just before the Spanish Civil War. Because it was widely viewed as pacifist propaganda, it was banned in many countries.... → Read More