All posts tagged "Writing"
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Poems by Kristen Nelson
A selected catalog of my altar from left to right The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as...
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Meditations of a Deviant Daughter
By Tanwi Nandini Islam When something happened. An allusion to something ominous from the distant past. I documented my rape thoroughly in my creative work,...
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Short Story: "Small Change"
By Meg Mundell The woman’s blink rate tells him she’s nervous: almost once per second, four times the normal count. Jack knows a touch of...
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Feminists We Love: Joan Morgan (Video)
Joan Morgan is an award-winning journalist, author and a provocative cultural critic. A pioneering hip-hop journalist, she began her professional writing career freelancing for The...
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Op-Ed: Nicholas Kristof and the Politics of Writing About Women’s Oppression in Darker Nations
By Sunil Bhatia On February 13, 2013, Nicholas Kristof gave a talk at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut. His talk, titled Striving for Global Justice, was...
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Talking Vultures, Humans, and Warm Flesh with Charles Bowden
By Alice Driver Some people we know only through their words. And so it was with author Charles Bowden and his images of bloated bodies,...
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What Contents Different Containers Can Hold: An Introduction to the Monthly Lyric Essay
…with gratitude to Katherine Ferrier and The Architects “What begins in recognition, – …ends in obedience.” Frank Bidart, “By These Waters” John Cage: It’s...
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Storytelling: Or, Autoethnography in the Academic Industrial Complex
By Mejdulene B. Shomali When my sisters and I were young, we’d ask our father to tell us a story before bedtime. I’m not sure...
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Women Writers Find Inspiration, Mandate to Create, at VORTEXT Retreat
By Kelsye Nelson The first ever VORTEXT event, Hedgebrook’s weekend retreat for women writers, began with Bastard out of Carolina author Dorothy Allison growling from...