Violence against women is a huge issue. A good feminist should be working on that - making the world a safer place for girls and women, wherever they live.
If you ask the right questions, you learn a lot about people.
A very tiny percentage of people with mental illness are also violent. We know this. The constant linking of the two together in national media is so misleading.
I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.
My life was very compartmentalized. I went to a school that was all white, and then I went home and to my black family.
