by Nicolette Westfall Continuing on from the Blog for Choice Day post about women and reproductive rights, today’s piece looks at women as a factor of suppression. The potential for women’s equality is hampered by divisive actions between women on behalf of men’s interests. When employed as a coping strategy, such actions result in maintenance [...]
When Women Attack Women: The Handmaid’s Tale and the Early 21st Century
Be a Hero. Help a Mother. It Might Just Save a Life.
by Karen Harrington I am the unfortunate recipient of news articles about mothers who kill. Why? At one time, when I was learning about infanticide and its causes for my book, this was depressing research. Now it is merely depressing. The story is almost always the same. Only names and dates are changed. A mother [...]
Girlfriends Gather to Celebrate Books
by Rosemary Poole-Carter In the tiny East Texas town of Jefferson, where population is low and the illiteracy rate is high, Kathy Patrick has found her calling. Dressed in hot pink and leopard print, a tiara sparkling atop her blonde hair, Patrick broadcasts her passion for books and reading. A skilled hairdresser, as well as [...]
Handmaids and Politicians in the Promiseland
by Nicolette Westfall Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” originally published in 1985, offered a stiff warning about the future of women’s reproductive rights under the current 2007 American government—er, fictional right wing theocratic conservatives in the not so distant future. Atwood created the satire’s elements from newspaper clippings dating from the distant past to the [...]
Artists v. Zealots
by Suzanne Sunshower I am an independent writer/artist from a quiet little burg called Detroit, who for six years has lived on a farmstead in the wilds of South Dakota. Recently I’ve been asked to write articles on the South Dakota legislature’s yearly attempts to ban abortion within the state. (In three years, there have [...]
Speech to Pro-Choice Rally for Women’s Right to Choose – 35 Years After Roe vs. Wade
by Lorna Dee Cervantes (delivered 1/19/08, San Francisco, CA) 35 years ago the fog was so thick on the valley floor I couldn’t see my face. I couldn’t see the cars on the road or the bus as it pulled up out of the fog to take me to the east side hospital where, at [...]
Writers Take Heart. You Have Your Own Saint
What if I told you there was a writer so determined to draw attention to his writing he posted it on walls, slipped it under doors and handed pages to anyone he could? Crazy? Some might say so. But it’s also a model of persistence, courage and faith. And as it happens, the man nailing [...]
One World Café presents Women Writing in the New Ireland
Join us Sunday, March 9th for a reading with the ladies from across the pond. WWInI is a new initiative aimed at facilitating a dialogue between women writers in the New Ireland. The intention is to promote the creative work of women writers living in Ireland who are from migrant and new communities and to [...]
Women Writing for (a) Change
About Women Writing for a Change Join us Saturday, March 8th for this very special reading from Women Writing for (a) Change. Women Writing for (a) Change is a feminist writing community located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1991 by Mary Pierce Brosmer, teacher, speaker and published poet, Women Writing for (a) Change has grown [...]
One World Café Presents Alison Aston
About the Author Originally from the South West of England, Aston has lived in London, San Francisco, and Marseille. Her credits include work in women’s style magazines like ELLE and Harper’s Bazaar. Currently she works for BBC magazines, in addition to freelance work for Time Out. Aston lives with her civil partner in Bristol. Closet [...]
