Gasoline Heart | Shannon Barber Price : $15.00 Available via Lark Books & Writing Studio In a letter, Kafka asks for books than can be an ax that can cut through the icy sheath of a wintered lake; the lake, obviously, a metaphor in service to the human consciousness. A young brown woman growing up…
Category: feminist
Taking Space Without Apologies : 5 Artists & Art Projects Fighting Against Street Harassment of Women
By Scherezade Siobhan Roughly around mid 2016 I created a digital storytelling space called “The Mira Project” – a global, cross-cultural conversation about street harassment, gendered violence and its impact on mental health. The clear goal for us was a rather simple one – Take Space. Without apologies. As part of this initiative, we started…
5 Voices in Poetry We Look Forward To
by Crystal Vega-Huerta For those who have not limited themselves to the canon, but instead have read from the outpouring of work from lesser heard voices in both published works and literary journals, will find women poets at the forefront of a fantastic year for poetry. While the work of women poets on the end-of-year lists…
Parlourwaalis
All that I’ve learned about feminism and its intersectionality, pitfalls, and successes can be distilled into a visit to my neighborhood beauty parlour. You know the kinds. You’ve been to one too; the types with no fancy frills or single-use wax sticks. The one where there’s no concept of disposable ‘gowns’ for you to wear….
5 South East Asian Women Poets You Should Be Reading Right Now
In the recent months, sufficient controversy & public discourse has been generated about the popularity of Rupi Kaur – a Canadian poet of South Asian descent. Kaur has gained substantial international fan-following via social media, Instagram in particular, for writing condensed verses accompanied by minimalistic sketches that skim over subjects pertaining to immigrant life, gendered…
Book Review : Pizza and Warfare
Published by Garden Door Press Author : Nikki Wallschlaeger Price : $10.00 Pizza and Warfare by Nikki Wallschlaeger opens with a facebook post about a visit to an optometrist’s office. It describes the humdrum act of getting your eyesight checked, suddenly decussating it with an investigation of instructional language so rampant in use throughout our daily lives. The…