Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine (2020): Fact-Checking and Footnoting Her Own Pain – Women Writers on Writing
This book was hard to read. It is full of raw pain. I so appreciate Rankine’s willingness to...
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Memorials to the Victims of the Middle Passage: Listening to Woman Writer Toni Morrison
In several interviews after the publication of her 1987 novel, Beloved, Toni Morrison laments the...
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Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights: A 19th Century Woman Writer Calling Out White Supremacist Patriarchy
Wanna read a novel that tells the truth? Check out Wuthering Heights (1847). It is so brutal in...
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Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Women Writers on Writing
I guess it is true that humans often resist change. Hold on to tired old things that are no longer...
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You say: “I’m #antiracist” but do you actually know what that means? Here are some highlights, in case you missed them….
So you say you are #antiracist. Are you ready to commit to what that means? This week’s post...
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