Notable Online: 7/5–7/11
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Gloria Steinem
What to Read When You’re Coming of [Old] Age
Governor Madeleine Kunin shares a list of books to celebrate her new memoir, COMING OF AGE.
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The Thread: Goddesses and Monsters
Let’s take the women in our lives, and the women who came before us, off the pedestals but also, out of the graves of irrelevancy.
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What to Read When You Want to Read about Feminist Saints
A list from Julia Pierpont to celebrate the release of The Little Book of Feminist Saints.
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Lisa Factora-Borchers
Lisa Factora-Borchers talks about being a Catholic feminist, writing across genres, and pushing back against a singular narrative about New York.
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Learning to Live Alone through the Legacy of Mary Tyler Moore
Characters like Mary and Rhoda hadn’t been turned into stereotypes of single women in their thirties or career women or divorcees. They couldn’t be: they were the first.
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“Man, You Better Watch Out”: Why Women Keep Marching Against Trump
[A protest’s] job is to hearten the people who’re part of it, to let them look into the eyes of those who agree with them, to help them feel less alone.
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The Rumpus Interview with Dawn Lundy Martin
Dawn Lundy Martin discusses her most recent collection, Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life.
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The Big Idea: Dawn Tripp
Dawn Tripp discusses Georgia, her new novel based on Georgia O’Keeffe’s life, O’Keeffe’s distancing herself from feminism, and balancing biography with fiction.
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The Big Idea: John Freeman
John Freeman, Executive Editor at Lit Hub, talks with Suzanne Koven about his new print-only literary magazine Freeman’s, the difference between between criticism and editing, and his fear of flying.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Suffragette and Feminist Inaction
A significant issue in the suffragette movement was its racist treatment of women of color.
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The Rumpus Interview with Kathleen Hanna
Frontwoman of seminal ’90s punk band Bikini Kill, experimental multimedia group Le Tigre, and now The Julie Ruin, Kathleen Hanna talks about how her music is about herself, now more than ever, and what it’s like to be considered an iconic leader of the Riot Grrrl movement.
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BookRiot recently selected Girls Write Now (which we’ve blogged about before) as their charity partner for 2013. The organization, which helps underserved teenage girls in New York develop their writing and prepare for college, will receive 2% of BookRiot’s revenue and work with them throughout the year. If you’d like to see Girls Write Now […]
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