E.J. Graff

E.J. Graff, a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center, is a journalist and the author of What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution (Beacon Press).

Articles

Elizabeth Warren Heads to Washington, an Uncompromising Senator for the Left (Election 2012)

Her clear-as-a-bell progressive convictions mobilized a massive grassroots base.

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Advantage Elizabeth Warren (States, Election 2012)

The campaign”s final stretch finds Warren with a small lead and a revved-up volunteer base.

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Elizabeth Warren: Yes She Can? (US Politics, Polling and Opinion Surveys, Politics)

Progressives adore her. Conservatives despise her. But it's Massachusetts' fickle independents who'll decide her high-stakes showdown with Scott Brown.

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Is DOMA Dead? (US Politics, Sex and Sexuality, The Constitution)

Earlier this week, Eric Holder announced that the Obama administration will no longer defend DOMA. But the bigger news is that the Justice Department says that gays and lesbians deserve stronger constitutional protections.

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Proposition 8 Lawsuit (Sex and Sexuality, Law)

The decision overturning Proposition 8 is full of careful reasoning in support of same-sex marriage. But is it written so broadly that it invites the Supreme Court to weigh in—and what will happen if it does?

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The Gay Presidential Debate (Social Justice, Gay and Lesbian Issues and Organizing, Sex and Sexuality, Campaigns and Elections, Politics, Society)

What do the Democratic presidential candidates talk about when they talk about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues?

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The M/F Boxes (Gender and Sexuality, Society)

Transgender activists may force us to rethink basic assumptions about sex.

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Same-Sex Spouses in Canada (Social Justice, Gay and Lesbian Issues and Organizing, Sex and Sexuality, Regions and Countries, Society)

On May 20, leaving its southern neighbor in the dust, Canada took a breathtaking leap forward in lesbian and gay rights.

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