Mary Ball Washington (American, 1707-1789): The “First Mother” of The United States of America was Independent and Strong in Character
Mary Ball Washington, the mother of George Washington, first President of the United States of...
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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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Tiya Miles and Saidiya Hartman: Critical Fabulation – Claiming the Narrative and Overriding the Supremacist Archive
In her book All That She Carried, woman writer Tiya Miles explores the lives of three women told...
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A New Narrative: It’s Hester’s Turn
When a great novel is penned and the author passes on, that story doesn’t change much if at all,...
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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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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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Morgan Jerkins: This woman writer is on fire! And we all get to benefit.
Morgan Jerkins is a woman writer on fire who we are all benefitting from. At 29 she has written...
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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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The Book of Longings (2020) by Woman Writer Sue Monk Kidd: The Spirit in You that Rebels and Persists
When my sister Theresa and I began the Nasty Women Writers project three years ago, we set out to...
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