Envisioning a culture of consent
Letter to the editor about the impact of reflexive support for Fr. Pfleger by Michele Beaulieux in Chicago Sun-Times Today, Ocober 24, 2022, the Chicago Sun-Times published my letter to the editor about how the reflexive support for popular Chicago priest, Fr. Michael Pfleger, impacts victim-survivors of sexual violence. St. Sabina parishioners as well as … Continue reading My Chicago Sun-Times Letter on Fr. Pfleger’s Support
April showers rain on RAINN's reign Update: This post was written in April 2022, but not much has changed. The April 2024 Change.org petition, Demand Resignation of Scott Berkowitz, President of RAINN, for Harming Survivors, and the May 5, 2025 Open Letter to the RAINN Board of Directors feel like déjà vu. For more recent … Continue reading How to Help Rain on RAINN’s Reign
UPDATE: for my latest on RAINN, see my April 23, 2022 post "April Showers Rain on RAINN's Reign" Bradford William Davis of Insider did an excellent exposé of Rape Assault Incest National Network (RAINN)'s toxic workplace culture: "Insiders say RAINN, the nation's foremost organization for victims of sexual assault, is in crisis over allegations of racism and sexism: 22 current and former staffers say the … Continue reading Finally! Rain on RAINN’s Reign
Holy Is Your Name arranged by Tony Alonso If I had to choose only one thing to do to foster a culture of consent, I would choose creating, singing, and promoting song lyrics that chronicle and celebrate healthy human relationships, call out social inequities, and advocate for social justice. Song lyrics embed in our subconscious … Continue reading Restoring a Lyric for Generations
Simone Biles “has assumed the role of a prophet, publicly calling the institution to account and refusing to simply go away.” That’s what Professor of Catholic Studies Susan Bigelow Reynolds asserted after the only (known) victim-survivor of U.S.A. Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar’s abuse decided to compete in the Olympics this summer. Biles, a Catholic … Continue reading Simone Biles and Rachael Denhollander: Modern Prophets
Eustancey Tilly Edits Wikipedia @2020 Michele Beaulieux My letter to the editor of The New Yorker published in the December 14th issue points out the sexism in Wikipedia and in Louis Menand’s review of the anthology, Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution, in The New Yorker. The letter is only seven sentences, so … Continue reading The New Yorker Missed that Wikipedia Misses Women
Eustancey Tilly connects the dots @ 2020 Michele Beaulieux "My Rejected Letters to The New Yorker" have a pattern. Most point out sexism in the magazine authors' assumptions and writing, sexism so glaring that I question why, if the writers were as clueless as they apparently were, that the editors didn’t step in. It wasn’t … Continue reading Connecting the Dots: Jeffrey Toobin, Sexism, The New Yorker
Michele Beaulieux with U.S. Senator Adlai Stevenson III when she was an intern for him in July 1980 I won’t read Tara Reade’s memoir, Left Out: When the Truth Doesn’t Fit In. Her October surprise hasn't garnered any press so it doesn't look like many other people will either. Nevertheless, let me take the opportunity … Continue reading Why, as a Sexual Assault Survivor, I Don’t Believe Tara Reade
My identical twin, Jacqueline, a magazine journalist, rates getting an article published in The New Yorker the pinnacle of success. So when her letter to the editor was published, I got it framed for her. I took partial credit for the coup because her authority to write about twinship came from our shared DNA. I … Continue reading My Rejected Letters to The New Yorker
(Unsplash/Haley Rivera) In this post, I summarize the two commentaries I've written in response to the decades in which church music composer David Haas continued to abuse women unchecked. My most recent commentary sees an opportunity for raising nonwhite, non-male voices, and my first commentary discusses what community accountability looks like. When sharing my most … Continue reading Let’s ‘Lift the Lowly High’ in Liturgical Music
Reservoir of Hope 
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