Almost every woman I know has been sexually harassed, most of us many, many times. And that begs the statistical question: Have almost all the men I know sexually harassed someone? Just writing that sentence makes me...
Category - Rants & Reflections
Corporate “sponsorship” (a.k.a. money, goods, and services donated companies to non-profits in exchange for brand/logo placement, tax right-offs, and good press) is part of most arts organizations’ bottom line. Usually...
With Brand Trump hawking everything from shoes to hotels on the back steps of the White House, the line between consumerism and politics has almost completely disappeared. Money and politics isn’t a new song. The Koch...
A lot of jokes and snide comments have been made about the fact that Mike Pence does not dine alone with women other than his wife. A number of these comments have been made by me. This tidbit about Pence was first reported in...
I always thought I’d be one of those mothers who shops at the farmers market, magically composts in her New York apartment, wears upcycled clothing, and sips fair-trade pumpkin seed chai coconut milk lattes. But I’m...
By Maud Kersnowski Sachs I have a confession: I own a pair of Ivanka Trump brand pants. I wish I could say that I bought them by mistake or that they were a gift or that I had a psychotic break, but I knew exactly what I was...
By Maud Kersnowski Sachs Lately, I’ve been dressing like a slob. I’m pretty much living in yoga pants and over-sized flannel shirts. But it was the shoes that made me realize there was problem: a pair of...
By Maud Kersnowski Sachs Two weeks ago, I was standing on East 42nd Street with some friends, my husband, my nine-year-old daughter, her best friend, and 400,000 other people, many of us wearing pink knit hats. Even the police...
By Maud Kersnowski Sachs I’m angry. My 9 year-old daughter is angry. My 82 year-old father is angry. Everyone I know is angry. We’re signing petitions, making calls, going to meetings, protesting in the streets, and...
By Maud Kersnowski Sachs I am a white woman. Feminism is the lens through which I see the world. It shocks me that I have to explain to anybody why Black Lives Matter or why women of color should be central to the Women’s...