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.
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.
Eva Stachniak discusses women in 18th-century Russian leadership and the research that went into her new novel, The Winter Palace. Leave a comment on this interview for a chance to win one copy of the novel.
Dutch artist Elis Vermuelen’s Global Burrows Project is an exploration of the places we inhabit and what we leave behind. From the beaches of the Netherlands to a disused house in the American Midwest, Vermuelen’s two-year journey opens a window onto our relationships with ourselves, each other, and our surroundings.
In an UpClose Interview, Mathilde Jansen discusses her documentary art photography in Tanzania.
Her Circle Ezine discusses creative collaboration and the necessity of artist-to-artist support with Poets JP Howard and Sheila Slaughter, founders of Women Writers In Bloom Poetry Salon.
In this exclusive interview, we talk with artists Caitlin Reuter and Suzanne Stroebe about Tea Party politics, the role of feminism in art practice today, and the fine art of collaboration.
Shana Thornton interviews artist and Fulbright Scholar Siona Benjamin about her “Finding Home” series: “Benjamin said that when she began this work in 1995, she was ‘thinking about Tikkun ha-Olam and how important it is to say the truth.’ Tikkun ha-Olam is a phrase in Hebrew that means ‘World Repair’ and is used to signify a pursuit of social justice. Benjamin’s inspiration from the color blue and the social concept of world repair prompted the main title for the series, Finding Home, which documents Benjamin’s search for home and place and her observations concerning displacement.”
“We’re living at a time where vampires and werewolves and all sorts of sexy-spooky ghouls are prowling the collective consciousness, and I don’t think that’s an accident…”
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.
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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.
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