Debbie Nathan

Sex pol, borders, Mexico, Yiddish, my camera

Archive for June, 2007

Day Care Accusation: Is Khemwatie Bedessie Innocent?

National Center for Reason and Justice (NCRJ) board member Emily Horowitz and I attended the New York City trial earlier this month of an immigrant woman who supposedly confessed to raping a preschooler. Shades of the old McMartin panic of the 1980s…with the issue of coerced confessions thrown in the mix. We wrote this op-ed [...]

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Border to Feds: Build a Wall Around Washington

McAllen Chamber president calls for wall around nation’s capital James Osborne June 19, 2007 – 4:56PM McALLEN — What do you do when the federal government announces it’s going to build a large, metal fence through your community and there’s nothing you can do to stop it? Write your members of Congress, complain on talk [...]

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Catch me with Susie Bright

So Susie Bright was planning to visit NYC from the West Coast, and she asked me to come to a recording studio in Chelsea to be interviewed for her show. OMG, thrill! Bright is one of the smartest — and certainly most accessible and entertaining, ergo serious – sex radical feminist writers in the country. [...]

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Dulce Home Chicago

Last week I was lucky to be doing some business in Chicago during the city’s annual blues festival. At a Jazz Record Mart party on Sunday morning – where bands played inside the store – I spotted what appears to be a new trend: old blues musicians dressed as Texans. Or, more precisely, Texicans. “What’s [...]

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Eichenwald Dust Up

Updated October 21, 2007 On August 24, 2006, Salon.com posted an opinion piece I wrote titled “Why I Need to See Child Porn.” Almost immediately afterward, New York Times lawyers, a personal lawyer of Eichenwald, and Eichenwald himself contacted Salon. Eichenwald said he had not looked at any material illegally, although my op-ed assumed he [...]

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