Abuse is screwed into the frame of the patriarchy. Top males so often exert their power over people they perceive to be weaker. Once, it was slaves.
Spanish Market and the Triumph of Craft
These staring female saints, these progressing pilgrims, are as far as can be imagined from the images in European churches—or even in the “white” churches of the northeast.
Recording Two Women’s Friendship
What did these two stout scrapbooks mean to my mother?
How Do We Go on Living?
When I saw the Century Plant blooming in my dooryard garden yesterday morning, I remembered the letter Sido wrote to her son-in-law, Colette’s husband, turning down his invitation to come for a visit.
Writing History
There are so many hidden stories that we as writers and readers need to write and to read—and to demand that they be written by women.
Drowned in the Rio Grande
The history of our shared responsibility, as U.S. citizens, for the deaths at our border is also our responsibility for our government’s decades-long covert attacks on the democratically-elected leaders in those countries.
Flamenco: The I I Do Not Wish to Lose
The whole tragic history of Spain seemed contained in this music and these movements.
Judy Chicago: The Master in Action
Elemental, terrifying, and beautifully rendered—often in tender pastels—these images of women in the throes of labor and birth speak to the power we, as a gender, are often afraid to claim.
Children in Church
They made no noise, having been warned beforehand, and perhaps silenced by the the powerful male voices of the priests and the bellowing of the organ. But they moved. Oh, how they moved…
Legacy of Harm
Doris Duke must at least have wondered if her generosity, in all its forms, could ever compensate for the destructive effects of nicotine addiction.