What do you call it when a woman expresses an idea and is shot down, only to have a man express essentially the same idea and have it broadly embraced? It’s an experience many women I know have had repeatedly. In my professional life, especially, it’s been the cause of much teeth gnashing. (Less assertive […]
Author: K. A. Laity
K. A. Laity is a fiction writer as well as a scholar, writing academic essays, novels, plays, humor and journalism on popular culture. She has been a Fulbright scholar at the National University of Ireland Galway and a columnist on women and technology. Find her on Facebook or follow her on Twitter.
When Joanna Russ Changed Us
Michele Kort’s vivid remembrance of Joanna Russ (who died April 29) based on a single encounter with Russ’s short story “When it Changed” is a testament to just how far this woman’s influence continues to spread. Few have come away from reading Russ without a strong opinion. Ideas she posed as many as 30 years […]