Kamala Harris: A Nasty Woman Writer and Activist 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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Author: Theresa C. Dintino
what the patriarchy has to gain from us feeling unloved and unlovable—Communion: the female search for love by bell hooks (American Woman Writer, 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 19th Century Woman Writer 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 Black Woman 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, Identities and Women Writers
My sister, Maria and I began #NastyWomenWriters to amplify the voices of #nastywomen from the past...
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, by American Woman Writer Ursula K. Le Guin – “Revolution begins in the Thinking Mind”
It felt like a good time to read some Ursula K. Le Guin, wise thinker of our time, who passed...
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Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine (2020): Fact-Checking and Footnoting Her Own Pain – Women Writers on Writing
This book was hard to read. It is full of raw pain. I so appreciate Rankine’s willingness to...
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Memorials to the Victims of the Middle Passage: Listening to Woman Writer Toni Morrison
In several interviews after the publication of her 1987 novel, Beloved, Toni Morrison laments the...
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Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Woman Writer on Slavery and the Haunting that Persists.
Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a novel about the enslavement of Black Americans and its lasting...
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