Debbie Nathan

Sex pol, borders, Mexico, Yiddish, my camera

Archive for July, 2011

Janice Haaken interviewed about “Hard Knocks”

Why is keeping secret the addresses of battered women’s shelters bad for battered women? How come it does them no good to incorrectly claim that well-off wives get beaten as often as welfare girlfriends do? I’ve written here before about the wonderful work of my friend Jan Haaken — feminist/leftist theorist, filmmaker, and book author [...]

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You and me and DSK

As faithful readers of this blog know, I’m a long time journalist who’s written extensively since the 1980s about false accusations of rape and child sexual abuse, and what to do about them. So when I woke up this morning and read the latest revelations in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case, I was riveted.  I had [...]

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