Recent Blog Posts
-
Feminism and male rape
Last night I made the worst decision ever about what to read right before bed: an article in the Guardian entitled The rape of men, on the practice of male-on-male rape as a weapon of war in Uganda. I think you should read it. I think everyone should read it, for many reasons. Unfortunately my…
-
And so #Inktober draws to a close
…Whew! That was fun. And work. And fun. I did a single ink-on-paper drawing every day for the month of Ink– I mean, October– for Inktober. I had about an hour each day in which to do my drawing, which means on a few occasions I posted something with which I wasn’t completely happy. But…
-
How I know this isn’t about freedom of speech
So, you want me to explain how I can tell that your Facebook page entitled “Should Miri Mogilevsky be murdered?” is not “an exercise in Free Speech”? Okay, I can do that. 1. First of all, Facebook is a privately owned space on the internet, a web site. It’s not a public space, like a…
-
#Inktober
According to Mr. Jake Parker.com, Inktober is: Thirty-one days, thirty-one ink drawings. Are you ready?!INKtober rules: 1) Make a drawing in ink (you can do a pencil under-drawing if you want). 2) Post it on tumblr (or Instagram, twitter, facebook, flickr, Pinterest or just pin it on your wall.) 3) Hashtag it with #inktober 4) Repeat (you can do it…
-
Fact and fiction on Minneha’s “Islam” bulletin board
Today’s editorial cartoon in the Wichita Eagle, drawnby cartoonist Richard Crowson Minneha Core Knowledge Magnet Elementary School is very close to where I live in Wichita, Kansas. The name “Core Knowledge” comes from the belief that there are culturally common things that students should learn about in order to be successful in life, which sort…