Vera (Atkins) Rosenberg: A Romanian Jewish Woman Spy Who Fought the Nazis with Everything She Had (1908-2000)
I was unaware that women were sent behind enemy lines by the Allied powers as spies and...
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Author: Theresa C. Dintino
Marie Curie: The Quest to Know, Polish/French (1867-1934)
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” ~Marie Curie Marie Curie discovered...
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Holding Space for the Past and the Future: Velma Wallis and the Stories of the Gwich’in People of Alaska
Velma Wallis’ books take the reader directly and swiftly into another world, a land of ice and...
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Writing at its Best: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
This book was recommended to me by Amazon. That’s right. It popped up on my kindle as, “you may be...
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Kamala Harris: A Nasty Woman in the White House
What I love the most about Kamala Harris is how much other women love her. When she was first...
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what the patriarchy has to gain from us feeling unloved and unlovable—Communion: the female search for love by bell hooks (2002)
This book kinda sorta unexpectedly rocked my world. It has such an innocent title. Gah! I had...
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Being Poor While Female in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853)
Nearly eighty years after the publication of Charlotte Brontë’s novel, Villette, Virginia Woolf...
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Edmonia Lewis(1844-1907): An American Sculptor Trapped in Structures Harder Than Marble
Edmonia Lewis had two problems. One: that she was not white and two: that she was not male. She...
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Julia Alvarez, Minerva Mirabel and the Embeddedness of Women’s Stories and Identities
My sister, Maria and I began #NastyWomenWriters to amplify the voices of #nastywomen from the past...
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