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- Created on 21 June 2019
- 2. Helen Ellis Talks Mammograms And Marriage In "Southern Lady Code
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- Southern Lady Code: Essays By Helen Ellis (Doubleday) Helen Ellis, the bestselling author of American Housewife, has done it again! Southern Lady Code is an equally funny collection of essays ...
- Created on 21 June 2019
- 3. The Secret History of Women and Mushrooms: A Centuries-Old Tale of Empowerment, Enlightenment, Education, and Magic
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- ... these amazing organisms that are yet to be discovered? Will your story be one of them? Reprinted with permission from Fantastic Fungi: The Community Cookbook. Edited and essays by Eugenia Bone (Insight ...
- Created on 28 April 2022
- 4. These 3 New Non-Fiction Titles Explore Women's Relationship to Money, The Personal Narrative, and Feminism in Myanma
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- ... religion, has long been considered a taboo topic, one that you don’t talk about in mixed company. Rebecca Walker’s new essay anthology bucks that tradition—and for good reason. Over the course of 320 pages, ...
- Created on 26 April 2022
- 5. Design Guru Debbie Millman On Her Writing Process and New Book, "Why Design Matters: Conversations With The World's Most Creative People" ...
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- ... an artist, an educator, a curator, and a podcast host. Does your writing practice change, based on the genre or project? Yes. When I am writing and designing something (like a visual essay), I often ...
- Created on 22 March 2022
- 6. "The Sex Lives of African Women" Aims to Help African Women Decolonize Their Sexuality By Sharing Their Storie
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- ... of sexual desires, furtive lesbian affairs, and shame around orgasms. Each woman seemingly suffering from what the late intersectional feminist bell hooks writes about in her 1994 essay, Feminism Inside: ...
- Created on 11 March 2022
- 7. Want More Body Positive Kid's Books? Start Doing Better By Fat Characters, Says Children's Book Illustrat
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- In this essay I use a word some might find offensive; fat. I choose to use this word not as an insult, but as a neutral descriptor, actively choosing to separate it from its typically negative connotations, ...
- Created on 25 February 2022
- 8. 9 Hot Pieces of Feminist Media, Including Podcasts, Documentaries, and New Releases From Björk and Laurie Anderson
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- ... Witchcraft The third volume in art book publisher Taschen’s Library of Esoterica anthology series, Witchcraft features over 400 occult images, essays, and interviews with practitioners of magickal traditions ...
- Created on 15 February 2022
- 9. Phoebe Robinson on her Comedy Special, Book Release, and Starting a Publishing Imprint, Tiny Reparations
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- ... hybrid show hosted by a Black person who has never seen an episode of Frasier.” For the book arm of her growing media empire, Robinson partnered with Plume, the publisher of her essay collections You Can’t ...
- Created on 08 February 2022
- 10. Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
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- “To be clear, I was a bitch to work with,” bookseller Nadia Wassef confesses in this unapologetically feminist collection of essays about co-founding and managing independent Egyptian bookstore Diwan ...
- Created on 31 January 2022
- 11. Bridget Everett’s Brilliant HBO series “Somebody Somewhere,” About a Midwestern Gal in Midlife Crisis, is Definitely Going to Be Your New Favorite Show
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- ... raw, breaking down in tears while scoring SAT essays in her cold, fluorescent-lit workplace. But when she reconnects with Joel, an old schoolmate (brilliantly played by Jeff Hiller), who confesses ...
- Created on 14 January 2022
- 12. Joan Didion and Me: How the Writer's "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" Showed Me The Power of a Woman's Voice, in the Literary World and Bey
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- ... by poolsides flood Instagram and Twitter feeds across the globe. “We tell ourselves stories in order to live”, the first sentence in Didion’s 1979 essay collection, The White Album, has become a hashtag. ...
- Created on 11 January 2022
- 13. In Response to Alarming Facts About Black Women's Maternal Health, Doula's Twitter Thread With Advice for Black Expectant Moms Goes Vir
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- ... in the lungs. She spent the first few weeks of new motherhood bed-ridden following multiple invasive procedures. Williams detailed her experience in a 2018 essay with CNN: “When [Black women] have complications ...
- Created on 17 December 2021
- 14. Emily Ratajkowski On Her Essay Collection "My Body," Her Journey to Feminism, and Why Using Your Sexuality to Get Ahead Isn't a Bad Thing ...
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- ... It’s something she delves into deeply and intimately in her new book of essays, My Body, which came out November 9. “I wouldn’t have been able to write any of these and be really honest with myself had ...
- Created on 14 December 2021
- 15. Quinta Brunson Takes The Lead in ABC's "Abbott Elementary," A Mockumentary Comedy About An Inner-City School in Philadelphia ...
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- ... is a big deal, Brunson, the youngest of five, is not one to rest on her laurels. In fact, she also just released a collection of essays, She Memes Well, this past summer. But now that the holidays are ...
- Created on 09 December 2021
- 16. In Her Memoir "The Big Hurt," Erika Schickel Looks At Her Self-Imposed Bad Girl Image Through A New Len
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- ... On Mothering A Child With Non-Verbal Autism Two New Essay Collections, "Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be" And "On Freedom," Examine American Culture And If Freedom Truly Exists Michaela Coel’s ...
- Created on 18 October 2021
- 17. Two New Essay Collections, "Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be" and "On Freedom," Examine American Culture and If Freedom Truly Exis
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- ... HAPPY WE COULD BE: Essays By Nichole Perkins (Grand Central Publishing) Nichole Perkins isn’t afraid to shoot her shot. She hilariously lusted after celebrities as the former co-host of the Thirst ...
- Created on 08 October 2021
- 18. Josephine Baker, First Black Superstar of the Silver Screen, Makes Her Criterion Channel Debut In Featured Collection
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- ... as she drifted between respectability and ‘waywardness,’” Francis wrote in a recent Literary Hub essay on Baker. “Baker was an adventuress and an artist who took major risks—and in doing so opened up possibilities ...
- Created on 13 September 2021
- 19. Free Your Mind: New Non-Fiction From B-Movie Queen Elvira, Mistress of Darkness, and Believing, a Cultural Analysis on Gender-Violence from Anita Hill
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- ... persist in science despite gender imbalances, bias, and outright sexism. In a series of personal essays and brief, focused vignettes on different tree species, she describes an ardent obsession with forest ...
- Created on 09 September 2021
- 20. Happy Birthday, Octavia Butler! 4 Powerful Life Lessons From the Renowned Science Fiction And Afrofuturistic Feminist Writer
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- ... in general have been noticeably absent from most science fiction. Why?” she asked in “The Lost Races of Science Fiction,” an essay she wrote in 1980. “And as for whites representing all of humanity—on ...
- Created on 22 June 2021
