Becoming a ‘Nasty Woman’: An Interview with Memoirist Grace Talusan
When I found out that Grace Talusan was publishing her memoir in 2019, I knew I had to read it....
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Tag: intersectional feminism
Woman Writer, Educator and Activist Mary McLeod Bethune (1875 – 1955): Standing Tall in the Hall!
The crack in the bronze ceiling just got bigger with the 11-foot marble sculpture of Mary McLeod...
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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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Sandra Cisneros: Bridging Borders, Mexican-American Women Writer (1954)
A house on Mango Street. Sounds exotic, doesn’t it? Turns out the house and street are not so...
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Katalin Karikó: The biochemist who persisted!
Update: Since discovering scientist Katalin Karikó and the role she’s played in the...
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May Sarton: Leaping the Waterfalls (1912-1995 American Woman Writer)
Spending summer 2021 in New Hampshire, I drive through Nelson quite often these days. Each time I...
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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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Woman Writer Willa Cather: A Forever View of the Mountain
Last week, my sister Theresa and I took advantage of the opportunity to visit the grave of...
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women – And Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura (2021)
On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell was awarded a medical degree. She was the first woman in...
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