As we consider women’s experiences in relation to herstory/history, it seems relevant to remember that women of all ages are part of the conversation–and, because it does need to be said, again […]
Amy Cuddy is a social psychologist who has some very interesting ideas on how to empower yourself, such as adopting the Wonder Woman stance.  We all have done it at one time or […]
Okay. What about those men who really do believe if they just pressure you to drink the tea, you’ll thank them later? If only you’d taste it! You must want it as much as they want […]
by Heather Bell I have this fantasy that I am dressed in a leather jacket smoking a cigar just standing there holding Kafka or Adrienne Rich by the spine when an old […]
At a reception a couple of years ago, I had the good fortune to be introduced to Gloria Steinem.  I held back tears of awe. (The tears were also borne of peri-menopausal hormones.) All […]
by Colette Tennant I don’t like it when scientists call me a carbon-based life form it makes me sound like a pencil smudge on my writing finger a really bad child at Christmas […]
When I read this article by Rachel Edidin on Wired, I knew I had to share. Â In “The Art of Asking Why We Hate Amanda Palmer,” Edidin boils it right down: Amanda […]
When sisters sit together, they always praise their brothers. When brothers sit together, they sell their sisters to others. – – – I’ll make a tattoo from my lover’s blood and shame […]
“Women have always been an equal part of the past. They just haven’t been part of history.”
-Gloria Steinem
by Paula Whyman One Down. Seven letters. Clue: Can be itself, or the opposite of itself, or different in infinite fractional degrees. Or alike. It can be just alike. More of […]
The Gloria Sirens 