All That She Carried by Tiya Miles: A Woman Writer Recovering the Untold Stories of Black Women in America
First she was told about a grain sack dating from around 1851 that had these words embroidered on...
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Tag: african american studies
Sonya Renee Taylor: The Map Back to Ourselves
Since reading Sonya Renee Taylor’s book The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical...
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Morgan Jerkins: This woman writer is on fire! And we all get to benefit.
Morgan Jerkins is a woman on fire who we are all benefitting from. At 29 she has written and...
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Carol Ruckdeschel: “Tireless defender of sea turtles” (American Woman Writer and Researcher b. 1941)
I happened to catch a January 13, 2021 For the Wild podcast titled Carol Ruckdeschel on Keeping...
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Matilda Joslyn Gage: In Her Name, American Woman Writer and Activist (1826-1898)
A few weeks back, I came upon a term I had not heard before, the ‘Matilda Effect’. It’s defined...
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