Deborah Siegel, PhD is the author of Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild, co-editor of the literary anthology, Only Child: Writers on the Singular Joys and Solitary Sorrows of Growing Up Solo, and co-founder of the webjournal The Scholar & Feminist Online. She writes about women, sex, feminism, contemporary families, and popular culture for a range of venues, including The Guardian, The Huffington Post, The American Prospect, Psychology Today, The Progressive, The Mothers Movement Online, and on her blog, Girl with Pen. Siegel received her doctorate in English and American Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001. Read more about her at www.deborahsiegel.net.

Rebecca Wallace-Segall has been a NYC-based freelance writer for ten years. She has contributed op-eds, thought pieces, and features on politics, religion, youth, education policy, and psychology to The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, Newsday, The Village Voice, Psychology Today, Salon.com, and many other publications. She is also the found and director of WritopiaLab, a creative writing organization for kids ages 9-19 located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Blog Entries by Deborah Siegel and Rebecca Wallace-Segall

Raising Hill

Posted February 4, 2008 | 12:56 PM (EST)


By Deborah Siegel and Rebecca Wallace-Segall

It started like this: "I was torn, but I finally decided. How 'bout you?

"Oh, I'm not torn."

"You're for Obama then, right?" said resignedly. We're young, progressive, possibly subversive...It seemed like the current predictable choice.

"You're kidding? Didn't you...

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