“Maria’s thunder skirts flew high when she danced” —from “Siblings” in Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith “No hemos contado aún a los muertos, no sabemos nada...
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VIDA Reviews! Sharp by Michelle Dean
Women today are still fighting a fight that began in the 1970s—namely, to carve out their own space in the canon of cultural greatness. The...
Happy Little Failures (On Women Who Refuse to be Humbled)
Alice Walker has this essay: “Refusing to Be Humbled By Second Place in a Contest You Did Not Design.” In it, she pays tribute to...
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Report from the Field: On Publishing a First Book at [almost] 50
In the summer of 2015, I opened the covers of a book and read aloud to a sizable audience inside an elegant black box theater....
VIDA Reads with Writers — Sabina Vanessa Paneva!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I am currently in the midst of reading Navajos Wear Nikes by...