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Her Hair | Vela
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Women We Read This Week. Photo by Mike Mozart. I come from a line of perfect women: perfectly dressed, cordial, well spoken. An unbroken line of scheduling and doing and achieving. I remember my mother telling me, more than once, that the only thing that matters is that I be an intelligent, educated woman. I was squandering my potential if I was anything less. And that would be a shame, she said. N the chapter of. Feminists have often identified hair grooming as the first lesson in gender socialization&#...
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Placed | Vela
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Women We Read This Week. Place, writes the geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, exists at different scales. At one extreme a favorite armchair is a place, at the other extreme the whole earth. Curated by Miranda Ward. Essays are likely to address, in various ways, certain kinds of questions: how do we form and maintain and describe relationships to places? How do we develop a sense of place? How do we shape places, and how do places shape us? November 25, 2015. March 10, 2015. February 18, 2015. August 20, 2014. A few...
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Women We Read This Week. July 14, 2016. Bought my first blue plaid flannel at K-Mart it must have been 1987 or ’88, when I was a junior in high school in small-town…. May 25, 2016. When my oldest son is the size of an apple, my belly begins to push out against my overalls. It is late summer, and the monsoons have brought a week of night rain in the Arizona desert. April 14, 2016. By Amy Bess Cook. The camp director said. It’ll be perfect. December 2, 2015. Tough Odds, Lady Bird. November 10, 2015. While ...
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Outlines | Vela
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Women We Read This Week. In these conversations curated by Amanda Pleau. June 23, 2016. Investigating Injustice: An Interview with Antonia Juhasz. Write about oil, reads Antonia Juhasz’s business card. And write, speak, report about it she does: from a gas field in Afghanistan, from the…. May 19, 2016. Short Prose and Persistence: An Interview with Penny Guisinger. Penny Guisinger recently went on the United State’s easternmost book tour for her first memoir, Postcards from Here. December 22, 2015. 8220;...
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Alice Driver | Vela
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Women We Read This Week. Alice Driver is the author of More or Less Dead: Feminicide, Haunting, and the Ethics of Representation in Mexico. University of Arizona Press 2015) and the translator of Abecedario de Juárez, a collaboration between journalist Julián Cardona and artist Alice Leora Briggs that explores and maps the new language of violence in Mexico. Driver is a columnist at Al Jazeera English where she writes about activism, human rights, and women’s rights. August 4, 2015. July 15, 2015. Two ye...
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The Ism and the Alcohol | Vela
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Women We Read This Week. Photo by Jorge Santiago. The Ism and the Alcohol. Year and a half ago, I published my first essay on addiction. The story of my addiction. The campy classic Go Ask Alice. Characters teetering on the edge of sobriety in Carver’s Cathedral. But by and large, the debaucherous stories of white men dominated the addiction discussion, a discussion characterized by glorification, perhaps, but also an avoidance of simplistic moralization. In the 1990s, this undercurrent of addiction stor...
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Features | Vela
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Women We Read This Week. June 21, 2016. Mother, Writer, Monster, Maid. Recently, I was in New York City to do some publicity, and I was staying in a Holiday Inn in the Gowanus Canal of Brooklyn where the elevator shook and moaned every time we went to our tenth floor room as though the shaft were too small and the elevator was just barely squeezing through. March 2, 2016. December 9, 2015. By Leslie Kendall Dye. November 4, 2015. By Laura Sewell Matter. October 20, 2015. The First Person on Mars. Not an ...
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Women We Read This Week | Vela
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Women We Read This Week. Women We Read This Week. Women We Read This Week. August 20, 2016. Women We Read This Week. Amber Brooks’s “I Believe Love Is Largely An Act of Imagination” in The Establishment In her lyric essay, Amber Brooks sets the stakes: she’s…. Women We Read This Week. August 14, 2016. Women We Read This Week. S Isabel Choi’s “Her Prayer” in Ninth Letter It takes a supremely talented writer to build up suspense to an event that the reader…. Women We Read This Week. August 5, 2016. Women W...
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