Sarah Fawn: How did this the idea for this anthology come about? What prompted your role and vision as an editor? Susan: I became a...
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Archive for tag: misogyny
VIDA Reviews! A Book of Untruths by Miranda Doyle
Lie Like Them: Writing the Unbelievable Parent Who is telling the truth? I wrote this note for myself in the margin of one of my...
Report from the Field: A Catalog of Exchanges: When Men (Don’t) Read My Words
You are apparently famous, though I have never heard of you. You workshop my piece at a prestigious writing workshop in California. It is my...
Body of a Poem: Transition as Act of Consent//Writing as Act of Consent//Ghosts as Act of Consent
I. When I began thinking about hormonal transition—long after I had articulated a gender of in-betweenness to myself—it was in the middle of a long...
Where Do We Go From Here? Against Hegemony, Toward Integrity: The Dissident Artist’s Struggle
Artists have declared their dissent from Trump. #WritersResist, #ArtAfterTrump, and #J20ArtStrike are a sample of many anti-Trump events organized by artists worldwide. It’s important to...
Writing as a Mother Worker: A Socratic Inquiry
Things we know: Lorrie Moore is a writer of humorous fiction, and many would call her prolific and successful. Lorrie Moore is also mother to...
Report from the Field: Encounters with Misogynists or, the Lap Dances I Never Received
This isn’t a lesbian club, the bald-headed bouncer spat before tossing us onto the icy Montreal street. The details before and after are hazy. I...
Notes Toward a New Language: On Women Poets and Nourishment
In 2010 I began to construct an anthology of poetry written by women who had and/or continue to struggle with an eating disorder. The initial...
Report from the Field: On (Not) Reporting Sexual Violence
During my first six months of graduate school I was stalked and sexually harassed by a guy in my cohort. We were both about thirty...
Report from the Field– Speak Test: The Silencing of the Racialized Body
In my third year as an MFA student, I received an email from my English department requesting that I schedule and pass a Spoken English...
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