Even in writing this piece, I am affected by the anxiety that grips all of us who write about contentious matters.
Blog Posts about Women and Feminism
Don’t Be Afraid of the F-Word
If so many of us feel we don’t belong… it is not surprising that we are terrified of exhibiting the political will that might conjure up images of rageful, extreme and radical women.
Bitch
These once-forbidden words are now as meaningless for most people as the words used to describe a rainy day: grey, overcast, chilly… by what magic has the violence been drained out of them?
Astride: Women, Girls, Horses—and Wolves
Wilderness can be healing. So, too, can the company of horses… they give a woman perched bareback sustenance, reassurance, even love.
Horrors
It is not too late for us women to wake up and realize what a woman president could do for all of us.
Lunch with Teri / Dinner with Alice / Weekends with Sarah
These are the women I know I can call on in times of need…who will understand what I want, oversee my progress toward some form of wisdom with courage, humor and compassion—and, above all, tell me the truth.
The Old House on the Acequia Madre Finds Its New Mission
Let the women of the Acequia Madre House serve as our examples. They led comfortable lives, but their privilege did not prevent them from extending hope and help to those in need.
Peggy Guggenheim: Life as Art, Art as Life
All those big artist’s names, and never a woman’s, although she did have a show in the gallery she owned earlier, first in London and then in New York, of thirty-one women artists.
Colorado Springs: Black Friday
When deranged individuals receive permission for their deranged acts from irresponsible political groups and irresponsible demagogues, why are we unable or unwilling to make the connection?
Black Pip in the First Snowfall
The snowfall heralds real winter, even though our aspens are still golden, leading me to plan the season’s reading in the hope of more evenings spent quietly by the fire.