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Reading angry women

“I have lived with that anger, on that anger, beneath that anger, on top of that anger ... for most of my life.” – Audre Lord “Once upon a time / I had enough anger in me to crack crystal” – Kiki Petrosino “Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair / … Continue reading Reading angry women

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August 1, 2018August 1, 2018A Room of One's Own, Anger, Angry women, Audre Lord, Bad Feminist, Carmen Maria Machado, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Claire Messud, Come Closer, Feminist fiction, Her Body and Other Parties, Jean Rhy, Joanna Russ, July 2018, Kiki Petrosino, Laurie Penny, Leslie Jamison, Margaret Atwood, Men Explain Things to Me, metoo, Naomi Alderman, NNedi Okorafor, Quotes, Reading list, Rebecca Solnit, Recommended Reading, Roxane Gay, Sara Gran, Sylvia Plath, The Female Man, The Power, The Robber Bride, The Woman Upstairs, The Yellow Wallpaper, Virginia Woolf, Who Fears Death, Wide Sargasso Sea, Women, Women writers1 Comment
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Reading: Molly Ringwald Revisits “The Breakfast Club”

I'm hoping to get back into more or less regular blogging by highlighting some of my favorite reads, both on- and offline. When I was a teen, The Breakfast Club was a favorite among my set of friends. My girlfriends and I had a choice of dreamy bad boy or dreamy jock for crush material--no one thought … Continue reading Reading: Molly Ringwald Revisits “The Breakfast Club”

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April 7, 2018April 7, 2018Essays, John Hughes, metoo, Molly Ringwald, Movies, New Yorker, The '80s, The Breakfast Club1 Comment
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The Writing of Laurie Penny

I have only read Laurie Penny online, but now she is on my list of writers to watch. (This is also how I discovered Rebecca Solnit, author of the fantastic Men Explain Things to Me.) Here are three of Penny's recent essays, written in response to the wave of sexual harassment revelations made in recent months. I … Continue reading The Writing of Laurie Penny

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December 10, 2017December 10, 2017Feminism, Laurie Penny, Longreads, metoo, Writers to watchLeave a comment

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