Jill Richardson
Jill Richardson is the founder of the blog La Vida Locavore and a member of the Organic Consumers Association policy advisory board. She is the author of Recipe for America: Why Our Food System Is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It.
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Views Thursday, October 04, 2018 We Need to Talk About Masculinity When we discuss sexual assault, we often talk about women. What should women do to stay safe? When I was in school, girls were even trained in women’s self-defense. I don’t know what the boys did during those time periods. Study hall? Ask any woman what she does to prevent sexual assault and she’ll... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 26, 2018 The Unbelievable Cruelty of the GOP’s Kavanaugh Charade This past week, my private reality and the public reality playing out on the television have diverged. It’s hard to believe that I live in the same world as Senator Chuck Grassley, the Senate judiciary chair trying to Brett Kavanaugh onto the Supreme Court. When Christine Blasey Ford first alleged... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 19, 2018 Why Women Don’t Report Sexual Assault When Christine Blasey Ford came forward to report that President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, sexually assaulted her in 1982, you could cue the response: Why didn’t she speak out then? Why didn’t she go to the police? There’s a long, long list of reasons why a woman wouldn’t... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 23, 2018 Here Out West, ‘Smoke Season’ Keeps Getting Worse Right now, much of the west is affected by wildfires. An unlucky minority will have to evacuate their homes, and some will lose their homes altogether — or even their lives. But for millions more across the west, “smoke season” is a real thing. Vast swaths of the west can be covered in smoke for... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 20, 2018 Immigrant Kids Are Suffering Trauma That Will Last Years Let’s be clear about something: Separating children from families, as the Trump regime is doing to undocumented immigrants, isn’t just cruel. It’s going to cause irreparable damage to the children involved — and probably to the parents too. The difference is that developmental trauma — trauma... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 13, 2018 Scott Pruitt's Corruption Is Bad, But His Planetary Sabotage Is Worse Did you hear that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Scott Pruitt, is so corrupt that he spent $1,560 on 12 customized fountain pens ? Or that he spent another $43,000 on a soundproof phone booth in violation of government spending laws ? Pruitt’s big spending on the taxpayer... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 02, 2018 Want to Attract Women? Try Not Hating Us. The recent attack in Toronto by a man who identifies as an “incel” has called attention to the disturbing and flourishing online incel community. “Incel” stands for “involuntarily celibate.” These are straight men who, frustrated by their lack of romantic success, channel their feelings into hatred... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 11, 2018 Rethinking the ‘Goldwater Rule’ in the Trump Era Maybe it’s time America’s psychiatrists reconsider their Goldwater Rule. The Goldwater Rule simply states that psychiatrists shouldn’t diagnose the mental health of a public figure unless they’ve personally examined the person. Naturally, if any public figures have sought mental health treatment,... Read more |
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Views Sunday, December 31, 2017 A New Year’s Resolution: Time to Speak Up As we go into a new year, I have a resolution. I’m going to speak up more when men do things that make me uneasy. Take the other day, for example. I really like my neighbor. I also have no interest in dating him. It’s nothing against him, really. But I don’t know him well, and I’m not interested in... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 20, 2017 Washington’s War on Poor Grad Students The Republican tax plan winding its way through Congress includes a special middle finger to the nation’s graduate students. It’s a little bit wonky, so stay with me here. I’ll explain how it affects me, since I’m an actual graduate student. Going to grad school would’ve been entirely out of reach... Read more |