Despite an interest in art from a young age, American folk artist Grandma Moses didn’t begin her artistic career until she was 78 years old.
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Photographer Maïmouna Guerresi Explores Roots Between Mother and Child
An Italian-born artist Maïmouna Guerresi explores cultural diversity, Islamic spirituality and mysticism, and the roots between mother and child.
Poem: Seamstress by Emily Wallis Hughes
Emily Wallis Hughes is a California-born poet currently pursuing an MFA at New York University, where she is a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow. Her poems have been published in Gigantic Magazine and Sacramento News & Review, and anthologized in Burning the Little Candle (Ad Lumen Press).
My Legacy as a Moroccan Woman
As an avant-garde Islamic feminist, Mernissi explains how illegitimate male domination is. Using the same religious and social grounds men use to oppress, Mernissi demonstrates how women have all the prerogative to conquer their rights and powers.
Poet Mary Ruefle on Menopause: Take My Advice and Throw It Away
Writer Mary Ruefle doesn’t own a computer. Her website (obviously managed by someone else) suggests that in order to contact her you should run into someone she knows personally on the street. Well, I emailed someone she knows personally. Then I sat down to my typewriter and typed her a letter, which she answered (also with a typewriter, and with better margins). And so our conversation began.
Hot Flashes Are the Least of It: Mary Ruefle’s Essay on Menopause
I recently came across an old cryalog that I kept during the month of April in 1998. “C” stands for the fact I cried, the number of Cs represents the number of times I cried, and “NC” indicates that I did not cry on that day.
The Late Birth of Birth Control
History of birth control: The science of contraception does not, and has never, lain strictly within the realm of women’s health.