Julie Gillis, on lust, bodies, aging and kindness.
Masculine? Or Just Human?
Julie Gillis wonders if there universally masculine traits, or just universally human ones?
Heresy, Rape Statistics, and Getting Away from the Poles
Until we regulate rape statistics, Julie Gillis writes, sexual violence will never be accounted for what it really is: diverse.
The Drunk Girl, the Predator, and the Bystanders – What Would You Do?
Julie Gillis gives commentary on a video that peeks into what happens when drunk girls are preyed upon by potential rapists, including two off-duty cops who encourage the predation and one tearful father who intervenes.
On Raising Kids Not to Bully (Or to Be Bullied)
Julie Gillis looks at ways you can help your child grow up to not be a bully — and, equally important, how to not have them be a victim of bullying.
Teaching Peace – For Martin
Peace is daunting and dangerous. But Julie Gillis insists that it has to be taught.
Heads of the Hydra or, The End of Rape
It takes more than education on consent to stop rape, but it is a vital chapter in a new story of what we all want: a world without rape.
Curing What Ails Us
Julie Gillis looks forward at the ways in which we can help heal ourselves and others after the horrors of Steubenville and other assaults in the news. Plus, an inspiring video.
Questions that Plague Me in the Wake of Steubenville
Julie Gillis grapples with three questions about good and evil and how to affect change in the wake of Steubenville.
Steubenville: Crime, Punishment and Actual Change
Julie Gillis is glad for the convictions in Steubenville, but believes that for meaningful change to happen, we must make changes on profound levels.
Steubenville: “It Wasn’t Violent”
Julie Gillis wonders if it’s possible that one of the defendants in Steubenville didn’t realize the violence of what they did to an unconscious girl.
What Makes A Man?
Inspired by advocate, educator and porn pioneer, Buck Angel, Julie Gillis ponders what it is that makes a man.
Raising Healthy Boys Means Letting Them Run a Little Wild
Julie Gills discovers that the ability to create and innovate come out of free play, useless silliness, and time spent on open thought.
Men Deserve Real Empathy, Not Deference
Julie Gillis challenges a New York Times Op-Ed that insists that women should show deference to the men who feel they are losing privilege in a changing world.
Empathy, Radical: How Cassian Elwes Used Compassion to Help Thwart Danger on an Airplane
Julie Gillis believes we need more empathy and less disposability regarding our veterans, citing a Hollywood producer’s amazing story of helping a man through an apparent psychological breakdown on a JetBlue flight.
“School To Prison Pipeline”
This is bad. Really bad. Like not a lot of words to describe how bad but bad. Ozy wrote about mental illness and the criminalization of black men here, and then did some articles about Marvin Wilson (executed in my opinion absolutely illegally, unfairly and immorally from my home state of Texas) and Ramarley Graham…