My teacher said I should not rewrite Dickinson,that we need fly-up, soar-to-skyrising-above-us guides. Wings. She’s wrong. Hope requires muscle,grit, I-will-do, flex of sinewhere. Present. Woke. Able. Stargazing and skywritingwill not move the plow. Push. Lift […]
Less than 75 years after the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence (1776), Elizabeth Cady Stanton presented the Declaration of Sentiments, at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first women’s rights convention organized […]
The most recent season of The Handmaid’s Tale—the astonishing Hulu series that began as an adaptation of the novel by Margaret Atwood—begins by gesturing to what nineteenth-century readers experienced as their own most thrilling, dystopian, […]
Madres— women forced to spreadtheir legs, open their mouthsto coyotes in desertsinside shipping containershooked to Mack Trucks,husbands and childrentorn from them—your tired your poor Padres—men in safe housesalong the long routebraving bordersstarved and beatenbadgered and […]
Midnight, the train, the heard past, the rumbling stall of an apartment behind the jukebox, the cattle call of miners, pipefitters, boilermakers naming shots chased with budweisers. The dirty hands, dirty faces. The women beehived […]
In 1840, Parker Pillsbury (1809-1898) lost his Congregational Church license to preach due to his uncompromising attacks on church leaders who would not resist slavery. He then lectured across the United States and visited England, […]
Civia Tamarkin is the President of the National Council of Jewish Women Arizona and an organizer who has assisted the ERA Task Force in Arizona. A former CNN executive, she is also the director of […]
