Deni Ellis Béchard, Author at Women's eNews

Deni Ellis Béchard

Deni Ellis Béchard is the author of five books: "Vandal Love," winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize; "Of Bonobos and Men," winner of the Nautilus Book Award for investigative journalism; "Into the Sun," a novel about the civilian surge in Afghanistan; "Cures for Hunger," a memoir about growing up with a bank robber for a father; and "Kuei: a Conversation on Racism," an epistolary book co-authored with First Nations poet Natasha Kanapé-Fontaine. He has reported from India, Rwanda, Colombia, Iraq, the Congo and Afghanistan and has published in dozens of newspapers and magazines.

How Mainstream Comedy Has Helped Normalize Trump’s Misogyny

By Deni Ellis Béchard ● Commentary ● January 2, 2017

These jokes not only give people permission to laugh at Trump’s sexist comments, they can distance us from the horror and trauma of related violence.

Deni Ellis Béchard

Deni's Latest Articles