Tag Archives: The New York Times
The radical potential and great disappointment of school sexual misconduct boards
TweetIn a development that surprised exactly no one who has been following the recent stories of mishandled sexual violence reports at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has agreed to investigate the school’s policies and practices. The investigation is prompted by a complaint filed in [...]
Also tagged Amherst, campus activism, campus assault, campus safety, campus sexual violence, criminal justice, Rape, slut-shaming, Title IX, transformative justice, UNC, victim-blaming, Yale Comments closed
Quick Hit: The NYT on restorative justice
TweetPaul Tullis has a haunting piece in the New York Times on the role of forgiveness in the criminal justice system–explored through the aftermath of a devastating murder of a young woman, Ann Grosmaire, by her boyfriend Conor McBridge. The long article is a really tough read, but I appreciate that Tullis explores restorative justice [...]
Also tagged forgiveness, intimate partner violence, prison industrial complex, restorative justice, Violence Against Women Comments closed
Quick Hit: The woman behind the SCOTUS DOMA case
TweetToday The New York Times published a profile of Edith Windsor, a friendly-looking 83-year-old New Yorker in pink and pearls whose fight against the Defense of Marriage Act, which “requires the federal government to deny marital benefits to gay and lesbian couples who live in states that allow such unions,” has made it to the [...]
Also tagged DOMA, Edith Windsor, good queer/bad queer, SCOTUS, Thea Spyer Comments closed
In defense of irony
TweetChristy Wampole wants us to live without irony. In her weekend essay for the New York Times’ Opinionator section, the Princeton lit professor encourages all of us—not just hipsters—to recognize the paucity of sincerity in contemporary American culture and “determine whether the ashes of irony have settled on you as well.” The essay’s been getting [...]
Also tagged authenticity, Christy Wampole, hipsters, irony Comments closed
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