Broadly
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Defending Herstory
London’s Feminist Library is at risk of being evicted in April due to a rent hike to more than double its former fee. Broadly spoke to some of the women fighting to save their space: “Without the Feminist Library, my…
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How to Get More Lit By Cuban Authors on US Campuses
It’s a bear to try to get contemporary Cuban literature, especially by women. To remedy the dearth of books written by female Cuban authors on American campuses, Sara Cooper, a professor of Spanish and multicultural and gender studies at Chico…
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Haunting Girls
At Broadly, Stassa Edwards writes about poltergeists, vulnerability, and the bodies of young girls.
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Angry Women in History
Stassa Edwards writes a comprehensive history of feminine vitrol: While the anger of second-wave feminists was meant to be liberating, it wasn’t without its own limitations. Solanas and Rosler, Kate Millet and Judy Chicago all have one thing in common:…
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Valeria Luiselli’s Book Club at the Jumex Factory
To write her new novel, The Story of My Teeth, Valeria Luiselli got ongoing book club feedback from workers at the Jumex factory featured in the novel. Over at Broadly, Luiselli talks to Lauren Oyler about her process, a childhood…
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Nudes of Wall Street
Writing for Broadly, Stassa Edwards has this profile of Nona Faustine, a photographer whose nude self-portraits aim to expose New York’s history of slavery. Faustine’s “White Shoes” is a series is a kind of memorial to that history, an attempt…