Sarah Grimké: Women Must Acquire Feminist Consciousness by Conscious Effort (American Woman Writer and Activist 1792-1873)
“But I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren...
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Tag: intersectional feminism
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Wild Wish, English Woman Writer and Activist (1759-1797)
In March of 2013 a stencil silhouette of a woman many refer to as the ‘mother of feminism’...
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Staceyann Chin: She Stirs Me Up, Jamaican/American Woman Writer (1972)
I was in the second grade the first time someone called me the “n” word. As my...
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Rupi Kaur: how dare she? (1992 Canadian Woman Writer)
Who does that? Who posts pictures of a woman having her period, a menstruating woman bleeding all...
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Simin Daneshvar: I Dream of a Universal Reconciliation (Iranian Woman Writer 1921-2012)
“When I am shivering from the cold, and darkness envelops me due to the scarcity of fuel and...
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A Spirit Still At Work: Update on Woman Writer Margaret Fuller
It’s a salve. A salve for the burn I feel each time someone says they’ve never heard of Margaret...
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Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse, Edited by Grace Bauer & Julie Kane. (Published in 2017)
While visiting my family in New Hampshire, I went to the local and still thriving bookstore in my...
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The Good Stuff: Update on Woman Writer Sandra Cisneros
The thing about nasty women, those out there doggedly working to make this world a fairer place...
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Maxine Hong Kingston: A Great American Woman Writer, Chinese American (b.1940)
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes (WW...
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