Letter to the Editor of CommunityNews (West Windsor & Plainsboro)

Though I’m not a West Windsor resident, I read with interest your coverage of the upcoming election for mayor and town council, and in particular, the Q&A addressed to the candidates (“West Windsor voters to decide mayor, council contests,” Oct 2).

That said, it seems to me that one important question went unasked. The question is: would the mayor and council be willing to pass a municipal resolution in favor of the Immigrant Trust Act (ITA)? Such resolutions have been passed by some twenty municipalities in the state, including nearby Princeton, and by two counties, including Essex and Hudson.  How about West Windsor? Continue reading →

I first encountered Carol Gilligan’s In a Different Voice somewhat late in life, as a master’s student in counseling psychology in my mid-forties. The book was published in 1982, but I didn’t read it until the fall of 2014, making me about 32 years late to the party. I’d encountered mentions of the book often enough, but had somehow been given to understand that it was “OK, but overhyped”–old hat by a feminist of the bygone variety: unoriginal, lacking in rigor, and problematically essentialist in its claims about gender. Continue reading →

Statement to the Middlesex County Board of Commissioners
75 Bayard St.
New Brunswick, New Jersey
October 16, 2025

Hi. My name is Irfan Khawaja. I live in Princeton, but work in Iselin, and spend most of my waking hours in Middlesex County. I’m here to urge you to join Essex and Hudson counties, plus a couple dozen municipalities, in passing a resolution in favor of the Immigrant Trust Act. Continue reading →