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Monthly Archives: March 2015
Women’s History Month: Reading and Viewing
I felt overwhelmed when I thought about what I could write for Women’s History Month. Do I write about how the month became commemorated? About the women that made it (and the other, more shaded side of history) happen? About … Continue reading
Posted in History, Iran, Journalism, Literature, Philosophy, TV and Film
Tagged A Room of One's Own, Alison Bechdel, Aphra Behn, Azar Nafisi, Betty Friedan, Brave, Charlie's Angels, Circumstance, Fun Home, Germaine Greer, How to Make an American Quilt, Jane Austen, Kate Millet, Lumberjanes, Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis, Persuasion, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Sexual Politics, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, Simone de Beauvoir, Spice World, The Female Eunuch, The Feminine Mystique, The Hours, The Mandarins, The Rover, The Second Sex, Town Bloody Hall, Violette, Virginia Woolf, Women's History Month
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Tuesday Poetry: Sara Rivera’s “baltic sea”
Dialogist is a quarterly journal of poetry and art, a self-proclaimed “online platform for diversity through discourse.” They recently published a lovely poem, “baltic sea,” by Sara Rivera. As published by the site, Rivera is: An interdisciplinary artist and writer … Continue reading
Reading Suggestions for March/April 2015
I’ve posted a list of reading I’m doing this month. Included are some fantastic writers offering chilling whodunits, contemporary literary lights strutting their stuff, and modernists constantly upending our expectations. Enjoy.
Tuesday Poetry: Adrienne Rich, “Burning Oneself Out”
“Burning Oneself Out” We can look into the stove tonight as into a mirror, yes, the serrated log, the yellow-blue gaseous core the crimson-flittered grey ash, yes. I know inside my eyelids and underneath my skin Time takes hold of … Continue reading
The Huntington’s “Second Girl”
It may be belated, but here are my thoughts on the Huntington Theater Company’s production of The Second Girl, by Ronan Noone. I enjoyed watching the show, but couldn’t quite put my finger on why I wasn’t dazzled by it. … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Theatre
Tagged Huntington Theatre Company, Ronan Noone, The Second Girl
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Tuesday Poetry: Susan Griffin’s “Three Poems for a Woman”
I’m a woman, and I’m pissed off. It’s a useful feeling: when you are agitated enough, you want to take action and make things different. That was the feeling I had when I walked out of the excellent, baller fantastic … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged "Three Poems for a Woman", She's Beautiful When She's Angry, Susan Griffin
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“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry”: Documentary on Feminism
[A/N 4/17/15: For my full review of the film, click here.] In 2013, an assistant professor at the history department of Boston College thought there was a problem with many students’ attitudes on feminism. The few undergraduates who espoused feminist views … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, History, TV and Film
Tagged Our Bodies, Ourselves, She's Beautiful When She's Angry
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