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To the other half of the sky
As International Women’s Day dawns, one cannot help but look back on the events of the last few days, the last few weeks, even the last few years as arguably the antithesis of everything this day is...
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Game of Thrones and the many faces of the goddess
Maiden, mother, crone; child, witch, whore; the meek and the bold, the submissive and the dominant, the loving and the cruel. The infinite and mesmerizing complexity of the feminine was embodied by...
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A price above rubies
What price does a woman put on her soul? How blurred is the line between integrity and compromise? As Puritanical attitudes towards what is acceptable to a television viewing audience have softened,...
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Twitter bios: Who are you, really?
On Twitter, we are what we say. We have the opportunity to craft a complete online identity through what we talk about, who we talk with and what we share. I have met some amazing people through...
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Sorry, you’re out of the club
The United States heads into today’s Fourth of July celebrations consumed by anger at its women, as one state legislature after another attempts to enact laws that remove a woman’s right to manage her...
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Failing the Bechdel Test
The Bechdel Test, while not, admittedly, without its detractors, should be in the back of mind of any men who write female characters. I first became aware of it about a year or so ago and it is quite...
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Long live the Queen
Amy Good kicks off today’s musings with her thoughtful post about the challenge in writing supernaturally empowered characters. While it’s important reading for anyone crafting a story that includes...
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Shut up and Write
As is obvious to anyone looking at the picture at the top right of this page, I’m lodged solidly in the average white male, 18-49 demographic. Homer Simpson would say, “everyone listens to me, no...
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People, Not Property
Something horrible happened a little while ago in a place with the deceptively idyllic-sounding name of Isla Vista. In the aftermath and the weeks since we’ve tried to process it, to assign a specific...
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Mosaics on International Women’s Day
I am a feminist. Hardly a stop press moment if you’ve followed my writing for a while. Still, one that is important to announce from time to time without ambiguity or any possibility of...
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