Except for so-called celebrities, or criminals, we are all forgotten within few years of our deaths.
Blog Posts about Women and Feminism
Some Remarkable Women
I give you several women who have been seen as remarkable; they stand for a multitude of others who through timing, luck or geography are never given the accolades they deserve.
Bad Girls
The death of the writer Kate Braverman here in Santa Fe a few days ago led me to think about the accomplishments, and the legacy, of other Bad Girls.
Women Under Fire
How often over the centuries women have banded together all over the world to stop invasion, conquest and bloodshed.
Liberation
It’s hard now to believe the extraordinary sense of liberation I as well as many other women felt during the early 1970s
A Kiss Is Just a Kiss
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.
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.
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.
The Double Cottonwood
I find myself involved in three groups to my great pleasure and satisfaction, this after many decades avoiding groups as a waste of time.