Category Archives: Feminism
Killing Chivalry: First on my Feminist To Do List
Since those radical second wave feminists escaped the kitchen, chivalry has been a dying out. photo © 2010 Hans Splinter | more info (via: Wylio) I didn’t always hate chivalry or plotted its untimely demise. Growing up in a conservative … Continue reading
Celebrating Women: Looking To the Future
photo © 2010 Julie Jordan Scott | more info (via: Wylio) Where do we go from here? As women, as mothers, as daughters, as sisters… how do we move toward a better future for women? As this Women’s … Continue reading
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Women Writing Well
Today’s post is my first vlog attempt. Please be kind! I mentioned several books that you may want to add to your collection. So, here are the necessary links to Amazon so you can purchase copies for yourself. … Continue reading
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Hello, I’m Feminist Parent
Early in my graduate school career, I read Elizabeth Flynn’s piece “Composing as a Woman.” This one piece of writing sparked a whole new fervor for feminism. Not the outspoken feminism of the 1960′s, but a more intellectual, refined push … Continue reading
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Feminism: Through My Life
photo © 2006 Quinn Dombrowski | more info (via: Wylio) No one definition embraces its full scope. No one woman embodies its full vision. No set of words capture it—no matter how raw, graceful, or elegant. It does … Continue reading
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Life is the Miracle
We celebrate the miracle of birth, but the real miracle of life takes years to develop, deepen in its beauty. I think we fail to see life’s strung together moments, mishaps, and adventures as miraculous . But they are. … Continue reading
A Celebration of the Fairer Sex
We know February is Black History month, and we may be aware there is a Hispanic history month. But how many of you know whose history month comes in March??? photo © 2009 Markus | more info (via: Wylio) That’s … Continue reading
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Forever Ends
photo © 2010 Hartwig HKD | more info (via: Wylio) Back in the 1990′s Michael W. Smith’s song “Friends” permeated the air waves, sung incessantly at youth group Senior Banquets before those graduated go to college, and even performed at … Continue reading
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Then the Poetry Came
photo © 2010 Terren | more info Seven Years Without Poetry Perhaps, you remember 2003. I do. Almost finished with my degree in English, head spinning with lines of Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, and H.D., I filled my life and head … Continue reading
How I Won the Birth Lottery
A special thanks to my blogging friend, Kristin who introduced me to this wonderful project. Twenty-nine years ago I won the lottery—the birth lottery. Some may chalk the birth lottery up to God’s divine will, a cosmic disinterestedness, or biological … Continue reading
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