Nathanial Hone the Elder’s “Portrait of Catherine Maria ‘Kitty’ Fisher” (1763-64).
#MeToo meets me first: Christine Blasey Ford testifies against Brett Kavanaugh before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The historical past is always with us to offer encouragement or caution. But the social past – the who said what to whom on Thanksgiving – is dead to us as it must be if we are to move on. The exception to this is the egregious act that we never confront and that therefore continues to fester into a cancer….
Read More: “Susannah and the Elders,” a circa 1610 oil on canvas by Artemisia Gentileschi, who was raped and then tortured to ensure she was telling authorities the truth about the crime.
Lucas Cranach the Elder’s “Justice as a Naked Woman With Sword and Scales” (1537), oil on canvas. Amsterdam Fridart Stichting.
It was perhaps inevitable that the #MeToo movement should wind its way through a variety of industries to the pinnacle of Washington D.C. For at its heart, #MeToo is about power – specifically white, male power and privilege – and what those have wrought on others, specifically the female of the species.
Read MoreI once had a job in which the staffers liked to say that we all had a timeshare on the doghouse. We called it “the Pomeranian palace,” which lent – as Jane Austen might’ve observed – such an elegance to our misery, for no matter how talented you were or how much you worked, eventually the wheel turned to you, because that was the way our bosses rolled.
Read MoreBanner for Novak Djokovic at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center proclaiming his 2015 US Open championship. This year’s winner, Djokovic found himself caught up in the Serena Williams-Carlos Ramos controversy at the Open, like everyone else. Photograph by the author.
Will Nike's new Colin Kaepernick ad bring out the fans or the haters?
