Meridel Le Sueur: An Unrelenting Voice of the People
In Poet Warrior, Joy Harjo names several women who have mentored and supported her throughout her...
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Tag: intersectional feminism
Temple Grandin: “I Can Picture It Perfectly”(American b. 1947)
Admittedly, I’m obsessed with recording our progress at breaking the bronze ceiling....
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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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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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Willa Cather’s My Ántonia: An Unusually Beautiful Read
I thoroughly enjoyed my recent reading of Willa Cather’s 1918 novel My Ántonia. There is something...
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