the feminist librarian

I read Michael Hiltzik'a The New Deal: A Modern History (Free Press, 2011) and Sasha Abramsky's The American Way of Poverty: How ...

The American Prospect has a most excellent article up today, The Homeschool Apostates , by Kathryn Joyce, exploring the growing visibility o...

A few weeks ago, I was sent a review copy of Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett's latest collaboration, The New Soft War on Women: How ...

I'm working on a blog post about children's health diaries in MHS collections and I came across the following in a letter from Dr. M...

I had a blog post up yesterday  at The Beehive (the Massachusetts Historical Society blog) sharing an item from our collections authored by...

As we are all well aware by now (unless you've been living in a media blackout), the Affordable Care Act-mandated healthcare exchange...

I realize writing commentary about a New York Times ladypiece is picking low-hanging fruit, but I have a sinus headache and it's too ear...

(via Lawyers, Guns, and Money ) It's hot here, as it is pretty much everywhere in the States right now, and I had an iced latte this ...

Hanna and I woke up this morning to the news that George Zimmerman has been found "not guilty" of the murder of Trayvon Martin in ...

Things have all been a bit hectic since Wednesday morning, and what with one thing and another I'm just getting around to reading the fu...

Having just submitted my first work of original erotica for consideration for a Cleis Press anthology, I decided it was apropos to work out ...

( via ) This weekend, I'm reading several chapters of Tracy Baim's Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers...

So I haven't written anything about the recent state-level victories in the push for equal marriage rights for same-sex couples. But co...

kumquats and plants in the kitchen window Hanna and I are both finding today much more difficult, emotionally, than yesterday. Yesterda...

flowering trees on the Charles River esplanade (May 2012) Shortly before midnight last night Hanna and I started getting automated calls...