The Golden Notebook
I am so sure that everything we now take for granted is going to be utterly swept away in the next decade.
Tag: women’s rights
In A German Pension
Frau Brechenmacher Attends A Wedding“Fancy Theresa bringing that child with her. It’s her...
Ways Of Seeing
A woman is always accompanied, except when quite alone, and perhaps even then, by her own image of...
A Century Later
The school-bell is a call to battle, every step to class, a step into the firing-line. Here is the...
The Dispossessed
“Men are physically stronger,” the doctor asserted with professional finality.
“Yes, often, and larger, but what does that matter when we have machines? And even when we don’t have machines, when we must dig with the shovel or carry on the back, the men maybe work faster – the big ones – but the women work longer… Often I have wished I was as tough as a woman.”
First They Killed My Father
One evening, three soldiers went to the family’s hut and told her parents they needed Davi...
A People’s History of The United States
White abolitionists did courageous and pioneering work, on the lecture platform, in newspapers, in...
Slip of the Tongue – Adriel Luis
I’ll tell you bout my ‘ethnic makeup.’
I wear foundation,
not that powdery shit,
I wear the foundation laid by my indigenous people.
It’s that foundation that makes it so that past being globalized,
I can still vocalize with confidence that i know where my roots are.
I wear this foundation not upon my face, but within my soul,
and I take this from my ancestors
because I’ll be damned if I’d ever let an American or European corporation
tell me what my foundation
should look like
