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Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard: Nameless Pain

I should be happy with my lot:
A wife and mother – is it not
Enough for me to be content?
What other blessing could be sent?

May 12, 2023 · 3 Comments

Carol Moldaw: Game Face

To see the ravages of aging on one’s face used to be inevitable.
Now it means one’s taken a stance.

April 10, 2023 · 4 Comments

Leonor Fini: Dreams of Women

“Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.”

April 2, 2023 · 2 Comments

Patricia Nugent: It Feels Bad

It feels bad that we are the only industrialized nation that doesn’t have women’s equality built into its constitution. 

March 9, 2023 · 9 Comments

Song of Songs, Canticles 1-8

I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys[….]
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

February 12, 2023 · 14 Comments

Parichehr Kazemi: How female Iranian activists use powerful images to protest oppressive policies

Images of unveiled Iranian women and adolescent girls standing atop police cars or flipping off the ayatollah’s picture have become signature demonstrations of dissent in the past few months of protest in Iran.

December 29, 2022 · 2 Comments

Toi Derricotte | Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing

My mother was not impressed with her beauty;
once a year she put it on like a costume

December 24, 2022 · 13 Comments

Larissa Shmailo: Abortion Hallucination

In the corner of the basement where my father used to lie I
watch, interested, as the snake
grows larger and more menacing

November 7, 2022 · 3 Comments

Barbara Hamby: The Tawdry Masks of Women

and when I see myself
in bus windows or store glass, the shock never wears off,
for I recognize myself and see a stranger at the same time

October 10, 2022 · 6 Comments

Stephanie Vander Wel: Loretta Lynn was more than a great songwriter – she was a spokeswoman for white rural working-class women

Lynn’s songs defied societal expectations by connecting her musical representations of working-class and rural women to broader social issues affecting women across the U.S.

October 8, 2022 · Leave a comment

Abby Zimet: Iran’s Women Rise Up – and Hack Off Their Hair – for “Woman, Life, Freedom”

Tens of thousands of people have thronged the streets in capital cities around the world for the last two weeks to protest the murder in police custody of Mahsa Amini.

October 5, 2022 · 2 Comments

Kari Gunter-Seymour: An Appalachian Woman’s Guide to Beer Drinking

Drink to the twisted torch of freedom, washed down
with fracking waste, red clay dust, the bitter soot
of coal’s see ya later sucka!

September 28, 2022 · 12 Comments

Nicole Froio: The Future of Work Is No Work

Millions of workers left jobs in 2021 at such a scale it’s been deemed the “Great Resignation.”

September 27, 2022 · Leave a comment

Abby Zimet: He Who Hath Not A Uterus Should Shut the Fucketh Up – Fallopians 13:13

On a good day for duplicitous zealots peculiarly fixated on controlling women’s bodies, Lindsey Graham, a childless, partnerless ghoul who’s never experienced any pregnancy welcome or not, proposed a nationwide abortion ban backed only by a tiny, rabid minority…

September 16, 2022 · 8 Comments

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