You Just Have to See Them I divide my time between Northern California and Costa Rica, the two San Josés that have come to define so much of my life. When I first visited the jungles of Costa Rica decades…
It Is Time To Think Beyond Dichotomy An old joke has it that there are two kinds of people in this world, those who believe there are two kinds of people and those who don’t. This comment is funny because…
How and when does gender matter? I want to introduce you today to a way to deepen your understanding of your own and others’ gender experience in all its uniqueness, complexity and variability. I want to offer you a way…
A Blind View The news media this week is buzzing with the orchestrated “coming out” of Caitlyn Jenner, publicly emerging fully formed and Hollywood beautiful from the body and psyche of Bruce Jenner. Every pundit and talk show host will…
Is What We See Really There? How many of us judge people instantly and visually based on their external appearance? Although we may not want to, many studies have demonstrated that we all do this, despite good intentions, in the…
Gender, Sexual Orientation and Race in the Sighted and the Non-Sighted Welcome to my new blog about the ins and outs of those all so human attributes known as gender, race and sexual orientation.I have been writing about these subjects…