Archive for tag: femininity

08.092018September 10, 2019

Body of a Poem: Clown

Body of a Poem: Clown

By Sarah ClarkIn FeaturedTags Addie Tsai, ballet, Body of a Poem, depression, femininity, gender, gender performance, gender presentation, genderfluid, GNC, hair, poetry, queer, race, twins

The story of my father lives in my body as precise as clockwork. The story of my father during summer is an easier one to...

01.052018September 10, 2019

VIDA Reviews! Glimmerglass Girl by Holly Lyn Walrath

VIDA Reviews! Glimmerglass Girl by Holly Lyn Walrath

By Sarah ClarkIn VIDA Review ReviewsTags body, femininity, gender, Holly Lyn Walrath, Jody T. Morse, poetry, review

From the opening lines, Glimmerglass Girl by Holly Lyn Walrath propelled me into an intersection between ethereal loftiness, humorous speculation, and poignant consideration. “in the...

27.042018September 10, 2019

Kill Your Heroes: Examining Marianne Moore’s Fraught Racial, Misogynistic, and Capitalist Politics

Kill Your Heroes: Examining Marianne Moore’s Fraught Racial, Misogynistic, and Capitalist Politics

By Sarah ClarkIn FeaturedTags Annie Winifred Ellerman, Arts Club, class, Cynthia Hogue, femininity, Feminism, first wave, Guggenheim, Gwendolyn Brooks, historical racism, implicit bias, intersectionality, James Sibley Watson, Julianne Neely, Marianne Moore, parenthood, poetry, poverty, Pulitzer Prize, racism, Scofield Thayer, sexism, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, TS Eliot, white feminism

Gwendolyn Brooks had already become the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry when fellow poet Marianne Moore sent this letter...

29.092017September 10, 2019

The Authored Self

The Authored Self

By Sarah ClarkIn FeaturedTags authority, censorship, classism, domestic violence, eating disorders, education, exoticism, femininity, Feminism, gender studies, gendered violence, healing, male gaze, memoir, persona, purity culture, racism, rape culture, recovery, Reema Zaman, sexism, shame, theatre, trauma, victim-blaming, writing

Writing, for me, means freedom. Which is to say, everything prior to discovering writing was entrapment. You cannot desire freedom, you cannot be gripped by...

30.082016September 10, 2019

Report from the Field: White Stockings: A Poetic Study of Mythical Freedom Fighters

Report from the Field: White Stockings: A Poetic Study of Mythical Freedom Fighters

By VIDAIn Reports from the FieldTags athletes, cinepoems, femininity, invisibility, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, Lithuania, masculinity, Nadia Savchenko, poetry, Russia, Russian folklore, sexism, war, white stockings

Centuries pass, yet Russia continues to weave its myths. Traditional Russian folklore is simultaneously bleak yet enchantingly surreal—full of stories about hoary, evil forest women...

13.022016November 12, 2019

Amrita Pritam: Sexual Politics and Publishing in Mid-20th Century India

Amrita Pritam: Sexual Politics and Publishing in Mid-20th Century India

By Lisa SummeIn FeaturedTags Amrita Pritam, femininity, Hindi, New Delhi, poetry, Punjab, rita banerjee, Sahir Ludhianvi, Ṭhāṇḍiyāṇ Kirnāṇ, Urdu, woman

That was our tryst, yours and mine. We slept on a bed of stones, and our eyes, lips and finger tips, became the words of...