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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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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Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Woman Writer on Slavery and the Haunting that Persists.
Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a novel about the enslavement of Black Americans and its lasting...
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