Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

Once upon a time, there was a brand new academic discipline called women’s studies. I was the founding director of a women’s studies program at North Carolina State University in 1989. Soon thereafter, feminist scholars recognized that while the study of women was important, it was also necessary to examine the power dynamics between women and men. Consequently, most women’s studies departments evolved into women and gender studies departments. We couldn’t lose the word woman because women were still invisible in so many areas of study. Still, I had hoped that within a few decades, that would be remedied, and…

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Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his country’s military successfully tested a massive nuclear-torpedo dubbed the Poseidon capable of leveling coastal cities with 1,600-foot high radioactive tsunamis. The despot, while enjoying tea with wounded Russian soldiers at a hospital in Moscow Wednesday, said the underwater bomb was launched from a submarine the day before and was a “huge success.” “For the first time, we managed not only to launch it with a launch engine from a carrier submarine, but also to launch the nuclear power unit on which this device passed a certain amount of time,” Putin said. Putin announced…

Zohran Mamdani’s scholar father was among the founders of the Gaza Tribunal, a group one critic likened to “a cesspool of London-based Hamas terrorists.” The group is calling for “Israeli perpetrators and Western enablers” to face consequences over their actions in the Gaza Strip, The Post has learned. The group’s website says it seeks to collect evidence against Israel regarding the war in Gaza sparked by the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks which left 1,200 Israelis dead and over 200 captured as hostages. Mahmood Mamdani, 79, attended the inaugural “preparatory” meetings of the “symbolic court of conscience” in London last…

October brings all that is beautiful about autumn, with its glorious colors and cooler temperatures, but it also carries with it a darker underside, as it’s known as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. As the month winds down, I have been thinking about the lifetime of work I’ve done in the domestic violence field as a writer, educator, and counselor. In this post, I want to turn our attention to something that is part and parcel of violence against women and yet not always examined and understood. Here, I’ll focus on objectification as a key tactic and strategy used to perpetuate…

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday a trade deal had been struck with South Korea, in remarks that sent the won up against the dollar, as a compact promises to dispel uncertainty for the trade-reliant economy. “We did, we did. We did reach a deal,” Trump said in response to a query on whether a deal was struck, ahead of a dinner hosted by South Korean President Lee Jae Myung. “We made our deal, pretty much finalized it,” he added later, without giving details. President Trump said a trade deal had been struck with South Korea, in remarks that…

Hurricane Melissa ripped through Jamaica with 185 mph winds leaving devastation in its wake and now it’s heading north. A new poll shows most Americans approve of President Trump’s immigration policy including the controversial parts. Kim Kardashian offers an update a week after revealing aneurysm diagnosis.

A young German activist dubbed the “anti-Greta” is seeking asylum in the United States after being hit with a wave of Antifa death threats over her political views and free speech championing. Naomi Seibt, 25, recently filed the petition for political asylum — in a move she says was supported by Elon Musk — amid fears she will be killed or be thrown in prison if she returns to her native country. Seibt, who became a darling of the right when she was just a teen due to her outspoken views on immigration and climate change, told Fox News she…

Just in time for Halloween, it’s time to go back to Hell. Hazbin Hotel‘s idea of Hell, that is. Prime Video’s popular animated musical comedy Hazbin Hotel returns for Season 2 today, Oct. 29, with two brand-new episodes. Hazbin Hotel follows Charlie Morningstar, the Princess of Hell, as she attempts to open a hotel that aims to rehabilitate sinner demons and have them “check out,” a.k.a. be accepted into Heaven. In Season 2, “Charlie struggles to maintain the Hotel’s goals and protect her public image, the Vees (led by Vox) make a plan to take over Heaven, placing themselves at…

WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance said on the latest episode of “Pod Force One” Wednesday that the relationship between the US and Ukraine “is much more productive” since his infamous Oval Office blowup directed at Kyiv’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, this past February. “That was six [eight] months ago,” Vance told Post columnist Miranda Devine. “We have turned over a new leaf.” “We’re trying to have productive relationships with both the Ukrainians and the Russians, because we want to end this conflict, and I think the president has a very good working relationship — and so do I — with…