“It was almost like they were saying, ‘okay, this is our story, we had a sister and this is similar to what happened to us.'”
Tag: Women Writers
The Radical Feminist Possibility of the Shakespearean Sonnet
We assume that William Shakespeare invented the Shakespearean sonnet—but what if Mary Sidney did instead?
Inside Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s Black, Feminist Biography of Harriet Tubman
“She came to slay slavery. She came to remove her friends and family from the most violent system in the United States. She came, and she did it, armed and ready.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Warns Humanitarians About the Danger of a Single Story
“Nobody is ever just a refugee,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie told the crowd Friday at the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Symposium and Prize Ceremony. “Nobody is ever just anything. Nobody has a single story.” No movement does, either, which Adichie opened up to Ms. about backstage after her address.
Language As City: Beth Brant in Detroit
Sinister Wisdom’s newest Sapphic Classic, A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant, releases into the world today. All of the Sapphic Classics are special to me, but this one repays an important debt from my youth.
From Fiction to Real-Life Change
It’s time that we live in a world where people are judged by their worth, not their gender. It’s that belief that fuels my work.
Our Beloved: Remembering Toni Morrison
A gifted writer and skilled editor, Toni Morrison helped build the foundations on which African American and women’s literature have flourished
Ms. Muse: Purvi Shah Resists Erasure and Rewrites History with Feminist Poetry
As a systems change consultant, Shah has asked tough questions about domestic violence against women—and the relationships between structural, state, community and interpersonal violence—and then provided transformative research and strategies. Shah’s poetry asks hard questions, too.
Dear Julia Alvarez…
I am a Spanish-speaking chica, born and raised in Panama, one among dozens of primos, tíos and tías, role models when mothers failed and fathers died—a world I left and haven’t left. My own book is about to be born. It’s an expression of me—an excavation of memory and return to the soil of “la […]
Black Women Honor Toni Morrison with Our Resistance
Today we mourn the passing of Toni Morrison—a beacon who shined light on the truth and inspired the world by giving voice to Black women’s triumphs and tribulations. She touched our hearts, inspired our pride and moved us to action.