The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, by 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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Author: Theresa C. Dintino
Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine (2020): Fact-Checking and Footnoting Her Own Pain
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
In several interviews after the publication of her 1987 novel, Beloved, Toni Morrison laments the...
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Toni Morrison’s Beloved: 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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Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights: Calling Out White Supremacist Patriarchy for over 170 Years.
Wanna read a novel that tells the truth? Check out Wuthering Heights (1847). It is so brutal in...
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How Ursula K. Le Guin Got Her Feminist Groove On
Before George Floyd was murdered on May 25, 2020, I was reading only Ursula K. Le Guin. It was the...
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Toni Cade Bambara: How to Care for Oneself While Healing The All
While reading adrienne maree brown’s Pleasure Activism for #NastyWomenWriters, I was stopped in my...
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Pocahontas was a Powerful Medicine Woman with a Plan
#Nastywomanwriter Paula Gunn Allen (1939-2008) sets the record straight about another #nastywoman...
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A Re-Declaration Of Independence That Includes Everyone This Time
I guess it is true that humans often resist change. Hold on to tired old things that are no longer...
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