The Awakened Woman: Remembering and Reigniting Our Sacred Dreams by Woman Writer Dr. Tererai Trent
In celebration of Black History Month, here’s an update on the woman Oprah Winfrey says was...
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‘A Purse of Her Own’: The Things She Carried by Kathleen B. Casey
It’s easy to live without thinking about how things were before we came into existence. Perhaps we...
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Margaret Larkin’s Gendered Journey of Resistance Part 2: Cold War Battles
If you haven’t already, read Part 1: From Cowboy Ballads to Cold War Battles: Margaret...
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From Cowboy Ballads to Cold War Battles: Margaret Larkin’s Gendered Journey of Resistance
Margaret Larkin was a poet, playwright, journalist, non-fiction author and labor activist. She was...
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Frankenstein by Woman Writer Mary Shelley (First published in 1818)
I finally read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, considered one of the greatest horror stories ever...
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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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The Life, Love and Art of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Part II
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s life can easily be divided in two: before she meets Robert Browning...
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Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing by Jen Soriano
Drawn to memoirs and engaged in my own ancestral research, Jen Soriano’s book Nervous: Essays on...
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Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps by Michi (Nishiura) Weglyn (American Woman Writer 1926-1999)
The article 5 Japanese-American Women Activists Left Out of U.S. History Books by journalist Nina...
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