What Would Jane Austen Do?
I’m coming to you today from Austen’s Shelf, a new independent bookstore in New Jersey, dedicated to all things Regency and romance. From my seat at…
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Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and the Language of Massacre
On December 28, 1890, the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment intercepted a group of Lakota Native Americans en route to South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Agency and escorted them to Wounded Knee…
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The Time I caught Bernie Sanders’s Jacket
When I decided to make the trip up to New Hampshire to canvass for Bernie Sanders, it was mainly because I thought it would be cool to run around for a while pretending to be…
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The Plague of Stuff: We Buy, Who Pays?
Towards the end of every semester, I ask my anthropology students to conduct an inventory of their closets. It is both a nod to In Small Things Forgotten (the bible of…
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There’s No Such Thing as Race
As an adjunct professor of cultural anthropology, I’ve grown accustomed to my white students blaming their black classmates for their own failure to qualify for financial aid.…
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Do I Look Like a Baby Killer?
This morning I went to Planned Parenthood. I go every three months to pick up my birth control pills and again in August just before my birthday for my annual pelvic exam. My…
How to Avert a Mid-Life Crisis? Go Back to School
For much of our son’s life, my parents have watched their youngest grandchild one night a week, giving my husband and me a much-needed date night.…
Grandma, where were you the night Hillary Clinton got the nomination?
DNC Day #4: The Hat I Wore to My Grandfather’s Funeral
A Racist Looks at The Nutcracker as a Form of Historical Dance
Rosaries and Ovaries: Standing for Planned Parenthood in Philadelphia
Perfect Mothers Bake Perfect Cakes
To celebrate our son’s first birthday, we settle on a London theme. By this, I mean that I settle on a London theme and my husband…
Novels (and notebooks) for ICE Detainees
Update: Thank you to everyone who contributed! The wishlist has been largely fulfilled (yay!) and Indivisible has paused the Mother’s Day campaign to allow local volunteers…
Mom Fail: Airline Edition
Originally posted on Twerking Mom:
It’s January. We’re 9 months in. He reaches for the tissue box and looks back at me, already aware that I’m…
Kat Echevarría Richter 