by Deborah Quinn | Mar 5, 2011 | Education, Feminism, Politics
Wisconsin’s Governor Walker claims that “we can no longer live in a society where the public employees are the haves and the taxpayers who foot the bills are the have-nots.” Congressman Pence from New Jersey thinks that there are two kinds of rape:...
by Deborah Quinn | Feb 27, 2011 | Children, Feminism, Politics
Remember the book Flat Stanley? About the kid who gets flattened when a bulletin board falls on him? He goes on adventures, traveling inside an envelope (which I imagine to be quite a bit like flying coach). Elementary school teachers have taken Flat Stanley quite to...
by Deborah Quinn | Feb 27, 2011 | Feminism, NYC, Politics
Along time ago, the late 1980s, to be exact, I went with my college friends to Washington DC. We’d graduated a few years earlier, from college in Boston, and weren’t roommates any more, but we gathered at S.’s house for a mini-reunion weekend just...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 2, 2010 | NYC, Politics
Today is election day. In my apartment building, there’s a polling place, which in 2008 had lines out the door and around the block. This morning? I darted in, voted, and was back upstairs drinking coffee, all in about 10 minutes. That’s the upside of low...
