Peace is daunting and dangerous. But Julie Gillis insists that it has to be taught.
About Julie Gillis
Julie Gillis is a coach, writer, and producer focused on social justice, sex, and spirituality. She is dedicated to sexual freedom and education, equality for the LGBTQ community, and ending sexual violence. Julie intuitively helps people live their fullest lives, navigating terrain from relationships to sex education. She writes at The Austin Chronicle, Good Vibes Magazine, Flurtsite and JulieGillis.com. Connect with her on Facebook and Twitter@JulesAboutTown
Heads of the Hydra or, The End of Rape
April 4, 2013 By 4 Comments
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
March 22, 2013 By 5 Comments
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
March 18, 2013 By 16 Comments
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
March 17, 2013 By 1 Comment
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”
March 17, 2013 By 28 Comments
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?
March 14, 2013 By 29 Comments
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
February 12, 2013 By 29 Comments
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
December 23, 2012 By 49 Comments
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
August 22, 2012 By 5 Comments
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”
August 10, 2012 By 1 Comment
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 [...]
Taking Children From LGBT Parents Isn’t Kidnapping??
August 9, 2012 By 6 Comments
Julie Gillis is appalled that the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer advocates kidnapping in the case of LGBT families.
Pleased To Meet You
July 30, 2012 By 16 Comments
Hi. I’m Julie Gillis and I’m a feminist. It’s like an admission, isn’t it? A vulnerability of sorts to state who you are and why you are here? Or perhaps it’s just how we all have learned to compartmentalize ourselves, here in America, in western culture, a method that has caused GMP founder to query [...]
Sleight of Hand: The Real Magic Of Magic Mike
July 10, 2012 By 9 Comments
Julie Gillis wonders if the strip club is perhaps a temple of honest humanity, and it’s only the shadow of shame cast by society that causes all the troubles.
American Action Forum Thinks Crackdown on Prison Rape is Too Costly
June 21, 2012 By 41 Comments
Julie Gillis has no words to describe her horror at the American Action Forum’s stance that the Department of Justice’s plan to reduce rates of prison rape is too expensive.
Open Thread: What’s So Funny About That???
April 29, 2012 By 33 Comments
Julie Gillis wonders: When does humor go too far?
“When I went to forgive those who had bullied me in school, they had no idea what they had done to me.”
This is a comment by Anonymous on the post “Should We Forgive Apologetic Bullies?”