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Don’t Say the A-Word! Part II: Shameless — Our Sixties Abortion

In Don’t Say the A-Word! Part I, I noted that most mainstream films skirt the abortion issue entirely. Only a few recent films have…

Dec 5

A photograph of the author wincing at the problem of abortion not being portrayed in the media.

Dec 5

Don’t Say the A-Word! Part I: Juno — Our Sixties Abortion

The formula for popular culture to be popular hasn’t really changed much in eighty years. What drives audiences and critics to rave about…

Sep 30

Don’t Say the A-Word! Part I: Juno — Our Sixties Abortion

Sep 30

My Nerve-Wracking Ride to the Abortionist

Excerpted from Our Sixties Abortion

Feb 15

My Nerve-Wracking Ride to the Abortionist

Feb 15

REEL2Real 1: Mark Leeuwenburgh’s Surprising Encounter

This new video series uses the medium of Tiktok. It is called REEL2Real. I interview men and women in the street and ask them for…

Dec 30, 2023

REEL2Real 1: Mark Leeuwenburgh’s Surprising Encounter

Dec 30, 2023

The Power of Poetry

When W. H. Auden read at Bartley College in 1967, he said “Poetry makes nothing happen.” This pronouncement so distressed David Ramsdell he…

Oct 4, 2023

The Power of Poetry

Oct 4, 2023

Putting What Where: A Vintage Book Review of for GIRLS only by Dr. Frank Howard Richardson (1953)

Why am I writing about a seventy-year-old sex education manual? Everybody knows they were conservative back then, and that lapses of…

Jul 16, 2023

Putting What Where: A Vintage Book Review of for GIRLS only by Dr. Frank Howard Richardson (1953)

Jul 16, 2023

I Owe It All to John Carpenter

He made me the videographer I am today. Sort of.

Jun 16, 2023

I Owe It All to John Carpenter

Jun 16, 2023

My First Diaphragm

Sometimes you meet someone when you’re twenty who has such an effect on you, you remember what they said and how they talked. If you’re…

May 5, 2023

My First Diaphragm

May 5, 2023

My First Condom

June 7, 1968

Apr 5, 2023

My First Condom

Apr 5, 2023

The Night That Opera Saved My Ass

“A priest, a minister and a rabbi are discussing when life begins. The priests says, ‘It begins at conception’. The minister says, ‘Life…

Mar 24, 2023

The Night That Opera Saved My Ass

Mar 24, 2023

Peter Bates

Peter Bates

Peter Bates lives in Florida. He writes a comical memoir called The Greatest Hits of Junior High: Buddies, Bullies,Girls, & Catholics.

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