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Maryse Condé: “Astute Scholar with a Mighty Pen” French Guadaloupean Woman Writer(b.1937)
Maryse Condé’s novel Segu is set in the kingdom of Segu (1797) on the Niger river in what is...
Nasty Women Writers: STEM
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Alice Catherine Evans: “I Went Beyond the Realms of Your Perceptions” (American Woman Microbiologist 1881-1975)
“In the poverty of your imagination it is easier to believe that the printed word is gospel truth....
Nasty Women Writers: Breaking the Bronze Ceiling - Statues of Real Women in Public Spaces
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Justice Ginsburg Day: Honoring the ‘Judicial Giant’
Monday, March 15 would have been Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s 88th birthday....
Nasty Women Writers: Activists
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Sonia Sotomayor: A Leader for our Time (American Woman Writer and Supreme Court Justice b.1954)
Sonia Sotomayor is a hard-working woman. Her autobiography, My Beloved World, recounts her story...
Nasty Women Writers: Artists
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Shattering Ceilings: Glass and Bronze!
Little by little, we move closer to a new year. (I’ve always been noted for stating the obvious!)...
Nasty Women Writers: Revealing the Web of Women Writers - Connections that Nurture and Inspire
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Zora Neale Hurston to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: “You are my sister”
Unlikely friendships. They’re often the best because they’re out of the ordinary and anything out...
Nasty Women Writers: Women and Ambition
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From Powerlessness to Power: Cultivating Powerful Women Who Know How to Share Power
I have spent most of my life trying to teach women to own and be in their power. Being in our...
Why #Nasty Women Writers?
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Women Writers on Writing: Virginia Woolf’s “Angel in the House” and what it takes to be a #NastyWoman
In 1931 Virginia Woolf was asked to give a speech to the London/National Society for Women’s...
Nasty Women Writers: Feminist Booklist
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Mona Chollet – In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial, or What’s Up with Powerful Women Being Called Nasty?
I was immediately attracted to Mona Chollet’s book when I spotted it. I was on one of my bookstore...
Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: What would you say if you could say it? Giving Voice to Korean Women and Korea
As I write this post I am asking myself the question whether Theresa Cha would like to be written...
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Woman Writer Virginia Woolf: A Bench of Her Own, With Room for You
Such an invitation! We were invited to the unveiling of the full-size bronze sculpture of Virginia...
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- Nasty Women Writers: STEM
- Nasty Women Writers: Artists
- Nasty Women Writers: Activists
- Nasty Women Writers: Women and Ambition
- Why #Nasty Women Writers?
- Nasty Women Writers: Feminist Booklist
- Nasty Women Writers: Breaking the Bronze Ceiling - Statues of Real Women in Public Spaces
- Nasty Women Writers: Revealing the Web of Women Writers - Connections that Nurture and Inspire
Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: What would you say if you could say it? Giving Voice to Korean Women and Korea
As I write this post I am asking myself the question whether Theresa Cha would like to be written...
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women – And Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura (2021)
On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell was awarded a medical degree. She was the first woman in...
Judy Chicago’s The Birth Project (1980-1985): The Power of Parturition and Textile Arts
When I walked into The Birth Project exhibit in the Judy Chicago retrospective at the the de Young...
Woman Writer and Activist Alicia Garza: The Dynamics of Power
Let’s begin by saying that movements are not started with hashtags and there is a lot more to...
From Powerlessness to Power: Cultivating Powerful Women Who Know How to Share Power
I have spent most of my life trying to teach women to own and be in their power. Being in our...
Women Writers on Writing: Virginia Woolf’s “Angel in the House” and what it takes to be a #NastyWoman
In 1931 Virginia Woolf was asked to give a speech to the London/National Society for Women’s...
Mona Chollet – In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial, or What’s Up with Powerful Women Being Called Nasty?
I was immediately attracted to Mona Chollet’s book when I spotted it. I was on one of my bookstore...
Woman Writer Virginia Woolf: A Bench of Her Own, With Room for You
Such an invitation! We were invited to the unveiling of the full-size bronze sculpture of Virginia...
Tiya Miles and Saidiya Hartman: Critical Fabulation – Claiming the Narrative and Overriding the Supremacist Archive
In her book All That She Carried, woman writer Tiya Miles explores the lives of three women told...
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