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 [...]
Elsa Dorfman describes life as a creative female among writers of the Beat Generation and beyond, and gives a bit of advice to creative women now.
“It was just one of those things,” says living (and still writing, performing) Beat generation poet, ruth weiss, of her first readings of jazz-inspired poetry set to jazz music in 1949. She always knew that things would come together at the right time and place. Always a poet, the true poetry of her life continues to unfold.
“‘Sacrifice everything’ we would write on our apartment walls…” wrote Diane di Prima, prolific Beat Generation writer. What was life like for female writers and artists who joined a movement to rebel against conformity in the 1950s golden era of female domesticity? Lourdes Acevedo begins a new series on women of the Beat generation.
Lourdes Acevedo writes a tribute poem for ruth weiss. Lourdes first read her poem at The Poetry Festival in San Francisco, Sept. 2011.
Lourdes Acevedo writes about being present for poetry and literary events in San Francisco furthering social change and free expression, as she experiments with free expression of her own.
It’s Banned Books Week, an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment.
Taking place in over 520 cities and 100 countries, poets are organizing events, demonstrations, and workshops in support of social justice under the banner of “100 Thousand Poets for Change” on September 24, 2011.
The International Museum of Women is calling for submissions on the subject of motherhood. The museum is a “social change museum that inspires global action, connects people across borders and transforms hearts and minds by amplifying the voices of women”.
Genni Gunn’s novel, Solitaria, has been long-listed for Canada’s Giller Prize, announced Tuesday.
Her Circle speaks with Dawn Tripp about her novel Game of Secrets, a story that weaves the past and present, locating the patterns that make us human, no matter the turns of the generations, and the different and intricate ways in which we keep our secrets.
Cheryl Yanek shares her on-going story of participation in the Occupy Wall Street Movement in New York City.
Heather Child looks at roles for female characters in Disney-Pixar’s latest creations and asks, “Why are films with their feet firmly in the twenty-first century still struggling with something as basic as gender representation?
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.
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In this podcast, cultural anthropologist Gina Athena Ulysse read from her poetry and discusses the narratives of her homeland Haiti, and how she strives to develop new stories in spoken word and performance poetry.
Marina DelVecchio brings up an older text, published in 1971, that introduces readers to ten obscure and famous women circa the 1800′s. Eve Merriam’s Growing Up Female in America: Ten Lives depicts the authentic first-person voices of women who "found the will to trudge forward into colleges and acquire degrees that went beyond ‘MPM — Mistress of Pudding Making — and RW — Respectable Wife’" (13).
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