On the Move in Mongolia: An Interview With Shebana Coelho
Shebana Coelho is a writer, director and filmmaker, who has produced radio and TV documentaries for BBC Radio Four, NPR’s On the Media, the…
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Women We Read this Week
It’s exciting and encouraging to note that two of the most significant and widely discussed stories this week were by female journalists. They’re reviewed…
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Women We Read This Week
Nicole Pasulka’s “Wanted: Macho Men With Moustaches” in The Believer I never spent a lot of time thinking about the cultural phenomenon of the…
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Freedom to Speak: An Interview with Sampsonia Way’s Silvia Duarte
In her essay “Forbidden,” this week’s guest writer, Katie Booth, writes about her experience teaching writing at a university in Guangzhou, China. As an…
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Women We Read This Week
Helen Hayward’s “My children, my life,” in Aeon Magazine In this thought-provoking personal essay, Hayward challenges the assumption that a woman can’t dedicate herself…
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Interview with Vela’s Featured Writer: Amy Butcher
You and I met a little over a year ago at Colgate University, when I was the out-going Olive B. O’Connor Fellow in Creative…
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Women We Read This Week
This has been a seriously amazing week for women’s writing on the web, so we’ve got a healthy list of links for you today….
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Featured Writer: Miranda Ward
1. You just wrote your first book, F**k the Radio, We’ve Got Apple Juice: Essays on a Rock n’ Roll Band. Can you tell…
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Featured Writer: Alice Driver
1. How did you end up in Mexico City? Can you talk about your trajectory as an academic? The day after I defended my…
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