Archive: Creativity
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Jul 10, 2010
No CommentsFirst Wave Flashback: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Last month, several of you read our Facebook link to Amanda Marcotte’s Slate.com article “A Short History of ‘feminist’ Anti-feminists” and asked for the full Gilman poem we shared. While we warned of the dangers of nostalgia for First Wave Feminism because of its exclusionary vision and goals, some of the ideas and arguments still...
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Jun 26, 2010
No CommentsVagina: A Poem
The following poem came about from an intense few days of frustration and self-doubt . . . go figure. I was trying to write an article for Feminist Lab and kept hearing this voice in my head criticizing my right to “speak for women” (which is not at all how I see my work, or...