Category Archives: law

Putting NH's new alternative curricula law in context

Recently, my good buddy Jason Becker shared this arti­cle with me over here. An excerpt: New Hampshire’s Republican-dominated Leg­is­la­ture over­rode Demo­c­ra­tic Gov. John Lynch’s veto Wednes­day to enact a law let­ting par­ents request an alter­na­tive cur­ricu­lum for any sub­ject they object to, leg­is­la­tion that crit­ics say could limit children’s access to a com­pre­hen­sive and qual­ity edu­ca­tion. H.B. 542

diamonds don't enslave women, women enslave women

Part of why I decided to blog again is because I had a back­log of stuff I wanted to write about. Here’s the first of that stuff. Let’s call this the begin­ning of a “Fem­i­nism Fri­day” series. An Engage­ment Ring Is a Deposit on a Wife This piece was writ­ten in response to a recent New