How ironic and, yet, how strangely fitting, that this flying virus arrives at the middle of Women’s History month and just before the April 7 publication of The Silver Swan…
Votes for Women
In the middle of all the horrors in the U.S. Capitol, we need to remember that much more significant events are happening.
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.
Don’t Let Sex Distract You from the Revolution
The discussions about gender were more congenial to me than the groups that confronted the problems heterosexual relations posed for women committed to some form of the revolution.
Galentine’s Day and Our Great Leaders
My only problem with this pleasantly mad-cap idea is that it seems to focus on friendships between ladies…
Start by Getting Them in the Room
The opening of the U.S Congress, two days ago, showed us what happens when we are in the room.
Victoria’s Secret Goes Down
I look for changes that seem small, even ridiculously small, and yet may herald changed attitudes in this slow-moving country of ours.
Sexual Politics
Kate Millett, a great leader and inspirer for many of us in the 1970’s and 80’s has just died at 82.
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.
Spurring Us Forward
I believe there are young women, as well as older women and certainly some men, who are beginning to claim this noble, long-rooted word—feminism—that connects us to a heroic tradition as well as spurring us forward into the future.