A few years ago I walked into my bank. The pressure to buy my first car was brisk and my savings inadequate. I needed a loan. The loan officer looked me in the eye and shot straight, “are you married?

This isn’t the first time I have brought this up, but it bears repeating because of some recent conversations I had with fellow women’s college alumna (all different women’s colleges, including myself ...

Months ago, I witnessed a Black man attempting to censor a Black woman’s writing. He told her there was no need to write a “divisive” piece because he’s already speaking up for Black women. What this ...

What opens a man's eyes to the advantages he's had in life? Mastin Kipp explains. Let's face it, many of us go throughout life seemingly unaware of the privilege we possess. After all, the nature of ...

As it’s used today, the term “privilege” was popularized as a means to describe inequality by women’s studies scholar Peggy McIntosh. In a 1988 essay, she listed 50 claimed examples of white and male ...

The media, doing its usual bang-up job, is framing Donald Trump’s 1.5-point win as a landslide, and making it to be the result of Black and Latino voters abandoning Democrats. What they’re trying to ...

I recently had a conversation with some of my students about issues of misogyny, male privilege, and the #MeToo movement. We spoke about the male gaze (the action of visually objectifying women both ...

I was preparing the Keynote address I would be delivering for the Canadian Art Therapy Association/Ontario Art Therapy Association Joint Conference on October 14th. The conference theme was Art ...