JVOICES

From an interview I did with Rachel Kramer Bussel, editor of Best Sex Writing 2008, about my essay in that book:
Amy Andre has a master’s degree in human sexuality studies from San Francisco State University. She works as a sex educator and writer.
What inspired your article “The Study of Sex?”
I’m actually the guest lecturer I [...]

Big win for the Courage Campaign who galvanized over 30,000 people to make sure that everyone’s vote is counted, and an end to the “double bubble” trouble plaguing voters and the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters. The “double bubble” issue is being talked about as the “Florida” of the 2008 election (but what’s lost [...]

Robin Washington is editorial page editor of the Duluth News Tribune and a commentator on public radio stations nationwide. This piece first appeared in Minnesota’s American Jewish World.
Would somebody please tell me how many degrees of separation from Louis Farrakhan you have to be in order to be considered a decent person on this planet [...]

Recently, my wife Lauren and I vacationed in an up-and-coming, mid-sized city in the Deep South. Traveling from Wilmington, NC and having heard of employment opportunities there, we decided to visit the area and “scope things out.” When we arrived on that warm, sunny day, my [...]

Check it out: a “Work-in-Progress Documentary” called Outside the Box by Lacey A. Schwartz, exploring her mixed-race identity–being Black and Jewish in the U.S. (Presented by Gold Glass Productions)