“I Would Prefer Not To”: Why The Bride! Is a Writerly Movie about (and by) a Nasty Woman Writer
The title of the 2026 feature film, The Bride!, indeed includes the exclamation point, and that is...
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Judy Chicago: Feminist Art, Collaborative Works and ChangeMaker
In the summer of 2021, I went to an exhibit by George Fok titled Passing Through at the...
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Wildly Different: How five women reclaimed nature in a man’s world
I never tire of learning about women who defy the constraints of patriarchy. Sarah Lonsdale’s...
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Woman Writer Nan Shepherd: Compelling Quiescence
Recently, I dreamed of a mountain—New Hampshire’s Mount Monadnock. In the dream, I was on a...
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From Cowboy Ballads to Cold War Battles: Margaret Larkin’s Gendered Journey of Resistance
Margaret Larkin was a poet, playwright, journalist, non-fiction author and labor activist. She was...
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Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing by Jen Soriano
Drawn to memoirs and engaged in my own ancestral research, Jen Soriano’s book Nervous: Essays on...
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50 Women Sculptors: A Monumental Resource
While preparing to interview Cheryl Robson, who initiated the establishment of the Virginia Woolf...
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Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo: Healing Hearts and Nations
“My innate impulse is healing, which is also standing up for justice, which can heal hearts and...
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These are women. Hear them roar.
A Window on Women History, that is, a written record, begins in China about 1000 BCE. There are...
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