A few weeks ago, a rejection email popped into my inbox. That’s not exactly unusual; dealing with a constant stream of rejections (punctuated, happily, with...
Archive for tag: gender
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PLEASE SUPPORT VIDA’S PRESENT & FUTURE VIDA stands for accountability, transparency and change. We work for gender parity and justice. And we depend on you, our community of supporters,...
VIDA Reads with Writers — Treasure Shields Redmond!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I am reading Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow and Toni Cade...
Report from the Field: Racial Invisibility and Erasure in the Writing Workshop
In a novel excerpt I turned into workshop, my narrator uses the word “chinky.” My narrator is a Korean American woman speaking to a successful...
The Unbearable (White) Maleness of US Poetry: And How We Can Enable a Structural Response to Literary Yellowface and Gender Inequity in Publishing
On Labor Day, news broke widely that White writer Michael Derrick Hudson’s poem “The Bees, the Flowers, Jesus, Ancient Tigers, Poseidon, Adam and Eve” is...
Report from the Field: The Other Section
I attempt to practice a feminism rooted essentially in intersectionality. As a woman who has had the privilege of studying feminist theory that illuminates the...
VIDA PAST AND FUTURE: VIDA ANNOUNCES CHANGE IN LEADERSHIP
For Immediate Release For more information, please contact: Amy King, VIDA Executive Board aking@vidaweb.org VIDA PAST AND FUTURE VIDA ANNOUNCES CHANGE IN LEADERSHIP WELCOMES FOUNDERS...
Report From The Field: The Defensive Male Writer
There are so many very important articles on the victimization of women in society. And this is not one of them. Nope. This is an...
The Count in the Ivory Tower: Gender Parity in MFA Programs
A graduate PhD student and a tenured professor walk into a coffee shop—sounds like the beginning of a hackneyed joke. Instead, it’s the catalyst for...