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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Tag: women and power
50 Women Sculptors: A Monumental Resource
While preparing to interview Cheryl Robson who initiated the establishment of the Virginia Woolf...
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‘Journey to Freedom’: Harriet Tubman Still on the Move
This article was first posted a year ago. Therefore I’ve added a couple of interesting...
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Sandra Cisneros’ “Women Without Shame”: Poetry for a New Year
Almost 30 years in the making, this collection of poems is to be savored. This latest book of...
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Vera (Atkins) Rosenberg: A Romanian Jewish Woman Spy Who Fought the Nazis with Everything She Had (1908-2000)
I was unaware that women were sent behind enemy lines by the Allied powers as spies and...
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Sonia Sotomayor: “A Trailblazing Bronx Native” Honored in Bronze
There is now a stunning bronze statue of US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor proudly on...
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Woman Writer and Activist Alicia Garza: The Dynamics of Power
Let’s begin by saying that movements are not started with hashtags and there is a lot more to...
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women – And Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura (2021)
On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell was awarded a medical degree. She was the first woman in...
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Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso: “A personality with a thousand faces” now in bronze
I’ve never been to Milan, Italy, but next time I’m in that country, I plan to visit this city that...
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