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Komplex Kai Is the Native American Rapper You Should Be Listening To - Indigenous People's Day Evette Dionne The *Seattle Times* has compared rapper Komplex Kai to Tupac—easily understood when you listen to his music. Like the...
8 hours ago
Wellywood Woman

NZ Update #11.1– The Women Who Do It - Most of the *Waru* women during a standing ovation at Toronto l-r Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu, Awanui Simich-Pene, Chelsea Cohen, Renae Maihi, Katie Wolfe, ...
1 day ago
Art Fag City

Limited Posting Resumes Next Week - [image: giphy (48)] It's 85 degrees out right now, but we might as well admit it's not summer any more. All of which is to say, it's time to get back to wo...
4 days ago
Works by Women

Interview: Saudamini Siegrist - Playwright Saudamini Siegrist has received three nominations for the Pushcart Prize and has been published in numerous publications, including Forge, Crack...
4 days ago
Words of Choice: Up the Creativity

Resources: New Survey Tags Abortions on TV, in Film - Abortion in real life is safe, common, and, in the majority of cases, not all that complicated. In fact, it's safer than childbirth. But you wouldn't know...
4 days ago
THE HOT PINK PEN

THE FUTURE PERFECT (2016): Review by Brigid Presecky - A Chinese teenager learns Spanish in her new home of Buenos Aires, imagining the myriad of possibilities her future holds. Winner of the Best First Featu...
5 days ago
Arlene Goldbard

Oh Crap! I’m Triggered Again: Part Three, Monumental Mosh Pit and Cheshbon HaNefesh - I had a friend who in her youth acquired an elaborate multicolored tattoo spanning her stomach, a symmetrical image in which her navel served as a focal po...
5 days ago
Works by Women San Francisco

Counting Actors: August 2017 Statistics - August’s count includes 9 shows, bringing the total shows counted by the project to 934 shows.
1 week ago
Epochalips

Lesbian Relationships: Different Lenses - I am standing on the shoreline of a lovely beach in Maui, carefully reading the signs (hoping to avoid a repeat of what was almost was my last vacation in ...
1 week ago
beyondasiaphilia

Rebel Without A Pause: Why we need GOOK - Just caught a matinee of Justin Chon’s film GOOK at the Alamo Drafthouse here in San Francisco. Although the movie is a bit rough around the edges for the ...
2 weeks ago
Ann Tracy's Waiting for the Muse

Halifax - We took a quick birthday trip to Halifax in August. Neither of us had ever been there before and a new airline was offering some bargain rates and wh...
2 weeks ago
WomenArts

Art Became the Oxygen: An Excellent Resource Guide for Artist-Activists - The U.S. Department of Arts and Culture has just published Arts Became the Oxygen: An Artistic Response Guide. The free, downloadable, 74-page booklet is a...
3 weeks ago
Guerrilla Girls On Tour!

AUGUST PROTEST ROUNDUP - Eileen Green, Sonia Agron, Michele Davidson August, 13, 2017. One day after alt right, white supremacist groups organized a demonstration that turned viole...
4 weeks ago
LA Female Playwrights Initiative

Nevertheless: Echo Persists in Giving Women a Voice - Damn them! Just when we’re looking the other way, yet another woman playwright is getting a premiere at The Echo Theater Company, now in residence at Atw...
4 weeks ago
Blog This Rock

Narrative and Counter-Narrative in the Streets of Charlottesville: #DefendCville #CvilleStrong - by M. F. Simone Roberts Poetry & Social Justice Fellow at Split This Rock A deep nourishment comes from working daily with poets and their voices, especi...
4 weeks ago
fbomb

Ending The Victimization Of Alleged Perpetrators Of Assault - [image: Emma Sulkowicz performing 'Mattress Project'] Emma Sulkowicz performing ‘Mattress Project’ In July of this year, Columbia University settled allege...
5 weeks ago
Kunstblog

Slumber Party Massacre - Well, here's to waiting and waiting. I first heard about Slumber Party Massacre in the early '80s, possibly when Rita Mae Brown made an appearance on Late ...
1 month ago
n.paradoxa's blog

nparadoxa Volume 40 (July 2017) just published! - Volume 40 (July 2017) is on the theme of Ends and Beginnings. This volume is a special bumper issue of 104 pages, which marks 20 years of n.paradoxa in pri...
2 months ago
Grrrl Sounds

Grrrl Sounds moving! - Moving forward the Grrrl Sounds archives will be available on: http://grrrlsounds.blogspot.com/
9 months ago
The Feminist Guide to Hollywood

Music Monday: An all girl band in Afghanistan - *They sound like a mix of Devo and Chicks on Speed to me. I don't even know what they're called, but I want to buy the full album.* *Anyone know what the ...
1 year ago
SeeLight

Characterization Handout - 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...
1 year ago
Women & Hollywood

Read Women and Hollywood Now on Medium - 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...
1 year ago
Still in Motion

Separation Anxiety: Babai - 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...
2 years ago
Timeless Rhythms

Wow! New things are happening in 2015! - 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...
2 years ago
Bright New Day

uh huh: enduring affirmations from the Spill Webinar Participants - Last week’s Brilliance Remastered Webinar (the Spill Intensive) was miraculous. We investigated our long-held narratives, decisions we had outgrown, and ...
2 years ago
littleblackbook

The Shape of My Impact: A Virtual Conversation on Survival and the Academic Industrial Complex - [image: zp_audre-lorde-in-berlin_1984_photograph-c2a9-dagmar-schultz]“I love the word survival, it always sounds to me like a promise. It makes me wonder ...
3 years ago
Club Des Femmes

Ada & After: Women Do Science [Fiction] - 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 Cinem...
3 years ago
The San Franista

Lighting the Path Intensives + Finding Calm Before SF Wakes - Sixteen months ago I was fortunate to get to take part in one of Ana Forrest’s advanced yoga teacher trainings in Colorado. I loved the experience of havin...
3 years ago
Bay Area Actor

New Home for Counting Actors - 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....
3 years ago
Steady Diet of Film

Review: Robocop (1987) - SPOILER WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS In a dystopic, but recognizable future Detroit, powerful corporations are primed to “bring back Detroit” wit...
3 years ago
MIRA'S LIST

UPDATE ON MIRA'S LIST AND UPCOMING EVENTS - 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 ...
3 years ago
Performance Ethnography

New server redirect - we have moved. you will be redirected to our new server: http://www.honeypotperformance.com
3 years ago
A Rehearsal Room of One's Own

Let's...NOT talk about sex...? - 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...
4 years ago
In the Midst of Memory.

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5 years ago
BodyLogue

Hijab no longer will block elite weightlifter - *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...
6 years ago
Vertical Hyphen

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6 years ago
TheBrooklynSocialite

Laurie Anderson, PIFF-Blessed/Chosen-Grateful - 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,...
7 years ago
Transformative Media Justice

Shawty Got Skillz2Share!:Cyberquilting/INCITE Radical Women of Color Media Skillshare - Cyberquilting/INCITE Radical Women of Color Media Skillshare We are ready now!!!! We have everything we need. So at the 2009 Allied Media Conference radic...
8 years ago
The Feminist Spectator

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