by Diane Saarinen I was bewildered by my own body. It had happened over and over again in just the past three days. This prickly heat, this sensation of intense warmth, started at my chest and moved up through my throat and into my face and radiated out my head. It even happened when I [...]
The Mystery of the Goddess in the Shopping Cart
by Carolyn Lee Boyd Just as feminism itself may change but will still always move forward, so does the powerful, liberating Sacred Feminine continue to come forth. I see Her emerging not only from the ground as archeologists unearth artifacts of Goddess-worshipping cultures, but turning up also in our toy chests, movie theaters, and bookstores, [...]
Five Great Sentences
One of novelist Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing is this: “If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.” That’s good advice. Clear prose is not supposed to allow anything to distract the reader from the story, conflict or character. If the reader pauses and notices the author even for a moment, it can break [...]
Blog for Choice Day is January 22nd

Naral Pro-Choice America is committed to a woman’s right to choose, and supports legislation that advances shared values for all Americans, including prevention of unwanted pregnancies. Join us January 22nd for special blogs as we participate in this year’s Blog for Choice Day event.
Interview: Paola Gianturco

In Celebrating Women, photographer Paola Gianturco trains her eye on the world’s most vibrant festivals that honor women. These moving celebrations, idiosyncratic to their indigenous roots, take the form of parades, parties, competitions, and religious ceremonies. Gianturco spent five years photographing seventeen festivals in fifteen countries across five continents. Collected for the first time ever [...]
Full Circle: A Tribute to the Cultural Diversity of Women’s Art
Studio HCE is proud to host a special online engagement of the juried exhibition, “Full Circle: A Tribute to the Cultural Diversity of Women’s Art” at New York’s Pen and Brush (www.penandbrush.org) studio March 6th – 30th. Deborah Jack, Juror of Selection and Awards Deborah Jack is an artist whose work is based in video/sound [...]
Review: Goodbye Madame Butterfly
by Suzanne Kamata When I first heard the title of Sumie Kawakami’s new essay collection – Goodbye Madame Butterfly: Sex, Marriage, and the Modern Japanese Woman – I assumed it was a volume on the empowerment of Japanese women. Well, it is and it isn’t. Veteran journalist Kawakami, whose first book, published in Japanese, [...]
A Prayer for Writers

Acclaimed novelist Christopher Isherwood once wrote the following prayer for writers that is as relevant for 2008 as it was when he penned it in 1940:“Oh source of my inspiration, teach me to extend toward all living that fascinated, unsentimental, loving and all-pardoning interest which I feel for the characters I create. May I become [...]
Like a Stepchild
by Diane Saarinen This past December, well into the holidaze season, my husband and I received tickets to Shakespeare’s play Cymbeline playing at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center here in New York. It is a play of “strange chance,” a romance, and, ultimately, a kind of screwball tragicomedy. Phylicia Rashad rules as a [...]















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