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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.
One of the 25 Most Influential Arab Businesswomen
Arab businesswoman Azza Fahmy built a global luxury brand making jewelry worn by royalty, politicians and celebrities including Rihanna.
When a Sex Shop Opens in the Neighborhood
Sid is standing on the shoulders of brazen, sex-loving giants. Please wouldn’t be there at all if not for the early pioneers who, starting in the 1970s, established the women’s sex toy industry as we know it, shattering many of the myths surrounding female sexuality along the way.
God’s Gift: The Lessons Motherhood Taught Me
Overall, motherhood is teaching me lessons I would not have learned otherwise. It’s maturing me on a level that I could not have reached without having gone down this path.
Becoming “Mama”: Nurturing Identity Through Gender-Diverse Parenting
I have never identified with being a woman, but I do identify with the name, Mama. That is what my youngest calls me.
The Only Child Box
A 5-year-old with an Anna Karina-esque bob prances into her mother’s nude drawing class in Santa Monica, California. With the focus of a cat, a jet-black-haired woman with striking olive skin and pouty lips sets up her easel and starts to sketch a voluptuous female model.
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.
Artist Dale Appleman on the Value of Solitude in Creative Work
Artist Dale Appleman, mother of actress and photographer Gillian Zinser, on the value of solitude in creative work and how things have changed for female artists between her generation and her daughter’s.
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.