This year Her Circle Ezine will celebrate it’s first International Women’s Day Festival. Join us beginning March 7th for a weekend of virtual events, including interviews, readings, contests and more! For information on sponsorship opportunities, please contact us at info@hercircleezine.com.
by Diane Saarinen As we are coming up on Christmas, it seems Women In Chant: The Announcement of Christmas by the Choir of Benedictine Nuns of the Abbey of Regina Laudis is an excellent choice of music to accompany the season. The choir, under the direction of Mother Abbess David Serna, O.S.B., begins the Announcement [...]
Karen Harrington Absolutely true comments made to me at a recent party after the host introduced me as a writer. Guest: Oh, what’s your book about? Me: A family tragedy. A husband is shocked to learn his gentle wife has committed murder and begins looking for clues about impulsive violence in her family tree. Guest: [...]
by Diane Saarinen While I do occasionally blog in the Her Circle Ezine Blogging Circle, I am also the moderator. I coordinate other bloggers’ posts according to the calendar, and on occasional scout out fellow bloggers. HCE has a mission: Her Circle Ezine has a decidedly political slant and we actively seek creative works that [...]
by Lee Conell I’m not in the habit of thinking about Puritanism, except maybe around Thanksgiving, when we are inundated with images of turkeys and pilgrims. In the past, when I heard the word “Pilgrim” or “Puritan” I imagined a woman with her hair in a tight bun, wearing a stiff dress and a stern [...]
by Shannon K. Winston Sabrina Kherbiche is one of the most compelling emerging women writers writing in French today. I first discovered her work when I read L’Anorexie Créatrice and Writing Size Zero: Figuring Anorexia in Contemporary World Literatures by Isabelle Meuret, which examines the relationship between writing and anorexia as limit experiences in which [...]
by Suzanne Kamata Every year, the Japan Media Festival is held in a different prefecture in conjunction with the national holiday, Culture Day. This year, the festival was held in Tokushima Prefecture, where I live. I attended the exhibition of prize-winning manga, electronic games and anime with my eight-year-old son. While he was off checking [...]
Lauren Sardi interviews Patricia Leavy, feminist sociology professor and author. Leavy has become known for advocating innovative and artful approaches to conducting social research as a means of getting at the complexity of lived experience and linking the “inner worlds” of women to the social contexts in which they live.
Heidi W. Durrow discusses her novel, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky—winner of the 2008 Bellwether Prize for Fiction.
It is hard not to believe we’re in a time of empowerment of those less powerful, and to be swept up in the fervor escalating the world over. In 2011, we witnessed the Arab Spring, the Occupy Wall Street protests and most recently, one of the largest protests of women in Egypt’s long history against the [...]
Caroline Palmer looks at the motivations of Minneapolis-based choreographer Ananya Chatterjea and the work of Ananya Dance Theatre (ADT).
Natsuo Kirino’s novels are not for the faint-hearted, nor are they for westerners loath to abandon the cultural stereotype of the Japanese woman as a delicate and beautiful “oriental flower”. Wendy Nakanishi explores the role of women in Japanese culture and society through Kirino’s popular works of crime and suspense.
