![]() ![]() The organization grasped the issue soon after, but mistaking powerlessness for power hardly began recently and has hardly gone away. Her: I understand what you’re saying, but we can’t help right now. Me: I thought this was about a source of their powerlessness. Me: Why is that? Her: Our members think this would take away their only source of power. ![]() ![]() She finally called back, saying they could not help. When I was working in the early 1970s to shape the concept and create the legal claim for sexual harassment when it did not exist, I called the organization then called 9to5 and explained to the woman who answered the phone what I was trying to do, asking if she would be willing to talk with her members about my project on unwanted sexual attention and pressure at work. ![]() This contributes to keeping dominance in place. Anxiety about backlash, however well founded, keeps one’s antennae endlessly attuned to giving power what pleases (and please pacifies) it. While often realistic, fear of blowback can impede insistence on change and the collective mobilization it requires. From experience, women often assume that any opposition to power will produce retaliation followed by retrenchment: not only that any progress made will be clawed back, but that those pushing for it will be punished. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Yet no matter how much she longs to love again, she is hindered by a secret she can never share. When she runs into old high school friend Don Callahan, she begins to yearn for change. Decades earlier, widow Everleigh Applegate lives a steady, uneventful life with her widowed mother after a tornado ripped through Waco, Texas, and destroyed her new, young married life. Matters of the heart only become more complicated when she runs into handsome Bruno Endicott, a driven sports agent who fondly recalls the connection they shared as teenagers. ![]() Meanwhile a mysterious letter arrives informing her she’s inherited a house along Florida’s northern coast, and what she discovers there will change her life forever. Eighteen years later, she’s a tough New York City cop burdened with a damaging secret, suspended for misconduct, and struggling to get her life in order. When Beck Holiday lost her father in the North Tower on 9/11, she also lost her memories of him. Embracing the future means remembering the past. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tyson is more eager to talk about his scientific duties, which include doing research on the scientific frontier exposing the public to scientific issues through his books, lectures and TV gigs and speaking out on scientific policy matters great and small: “All I tell them is, invite me some other month and I’ll be happy to give a talk.” “If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist,” he told. It’s just that race doesn’t play any part in his line of work - and that’s why he deflects speaking requests that are specifically tied to the monthlong event. It’s not that the 48-year-old Bronx native has anything against the idea of celebrating notable blacks in American history every February. ![]() |