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Letting Go
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This is my last blog for 2024. As the Thanksgiving weekend closes and we
enter the December holidays, there’s a lingering nostalgia for the end of
many th...
Two Kinds of People
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Are you as confused as I am about how to comprehend and respond to the
current political moment? Many people seem certain, far more certain than
I, but wha...
Things Will Be Different
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This indie drama/sci fi/horror from writer/director Michael Felker is
intriguing and well made if a bit confusing. Siblings Joseph and Sid (Adam
David Tho...
Don’t miss Horizon’s Gala at Cal Academy!
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Horizons is the world’s first community foundation of, by, and for LGBTQ
people. Their Mission? ‘We invest in LGBTQ nonprofits, strengthen a culture
of LGB...
Re-Evaluation in Feminism(s) and Contemporary Art
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A hybrid one-day conference – Friday 13 September 2024, 10am -7 pm (GMT)
Eventbrite tickets available free: Re-evaluation in Feminism and
Contemporary Art ...
Ready for Turkey?
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October ended up scurrying away from me this year. And here we are in
November with turkeys on the horizon. We'll see if I can make two posts
this mont...
Battle Cry
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- The Touch Issue
- sailor moon
Rosa Cartagena
[image: Sailor Moon, a girl with long blonde pigtails and a feminine sailor
costume sits in a...
Wellywood Woman Leaves For Other Gardens
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Time to turn 'Wellywood Woman' to compost, take it to new gardens, real and
metaphorical. Time to go.
Blogger's been unsatisfactory for a while, since ...
Split This Rock Enters Fallow Season
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[image: Over a white background, bold black text with a yellow outline
appears that says “Fallow Season July 1, 2021 - April 1, 2022.” Under this
text is...
ICYMI: A is For Announces New Playwriting Contest
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photo credit: Dianna Bush photography A month ago, A is For, a nonprofit
organization dedicated to advancing reproductive rights and ending the
stigma agai...
April Shows to See!
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KILL THE DEBBIE DOWNERS! KILL THEM! KILL THEM! KILL THEM OFF! From Anton
Checkhov’s Three Sisters Directed by: Beth Willmurt and Mark Jackson
Performed ...
Story
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Again, here's a handout I use in my fiction/prose narrative classes that I
thought might be useful to others. Feel free to use these guidelines in
your wor...
The Origins of Girl Power
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What are the origins of "girl power," as a phrase? Most people know it from
either the late 90's British singing group The Spice Girls, or from the
early 9...
Read Women and Hollywood Now on Medium
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After five great years on Indiewire and the end of the blog network, Women
and Hollywood has moved to a new home on Medium.
You can read us here: https://b...
Separation Anxiety: Babai
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At its international premiere at this year’s Jubilee edition of the Karlovy
Vary International Film Festival, Visar Morina’s intense and immediate
father/s...
Wow! New things are happening in 2015!
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Hello world! Away from the online journal here at Timeless Rhythms Studio,
I have been growing my life in different directions for some time now! For
examp...
Ada & After: Women Do Science [Fiction]
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Coming soon...
in partnership with
BFI Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder and Film London
20, 21, 22, 23 November 2014
ICA/Hackney Picturehouse/ Aubin Cine...
New Home for Counting Actors
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As of this month's post, the monthly report from the Counting Actors
project moves to the Works by Women San Francisco blog. March's post is
linked below....
Review: Robocop (1987)
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SPOILER WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS In a dystopic, but
recognizable future Detroit, powerful corporations are primed to “bring
back Detroit” wit...
UPDATE ON MIRA'S LIST AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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Greetings long lost friends,
I am still alive and kicking but not doing this blog anymore. I do,
however, go around the country and speak about the things ...
Let's...NOT talk about sex...?
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So a friend of mine recently experienced some sexual harassment and had the
courage to write about it publicly. I’ll give you a moment while you go and
r...
Hijab no longer will block elite weightlifter
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*by Thomas Roberts.*
After a hard-fought battle in the name of her faith, Muslim weightlifter
Kulsoom Abdullah is now able to compete without violating her...
Laurie Anderson, PIFF-Blessed/Chosen-Grateful
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In Joan Rivers new documentary, despite the over-arching theme of her
heroic battle to maintain eroding celebrity, she talks a lot about being
chosen. Yes,...