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Tag Archives: Feminism
TCS: Adrienne Rich and the Meaning of We
Good Morning! ____________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early riserson Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum,so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole inyour brainpan, feel free to add a comment.____________________________ It was an old … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Adrienne Rich, Adrienne Rich and the Meaning of We, Feminism, Second Wave, TCS
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TCS: They All Danced with Fire – Poetry for Women’s History Month
Good Morning! ____________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a comment. ____________________________ … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Aphra Behn and Yosano Akiko, Dorothy Keeley Aldis and Audre Lorde, Feminism, Helen Keller and Yesenia Montilla, Marge Piercy and Kishwar Naheed, Naomi Shihab Nye and Nikita Gill, TCS, They All Danced with Fire – Poetry for Women’s History Month
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The Woman’s Bible: the Feminist Book that Suffragists Rejected
by Nona Blyth Cloud Sunday, January 16, 2022, will be Religious Freedom Day, a celebration of this statute, written by Thomas Jefferson, and passed by the Virginia Assembly on January 16, 1786, which became the basis for the protections of … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Equal Rights
Tagged Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminism, Religious Freedom Day, Seneca Falls Convention, The Woman Suffrage Movement, The Woman's Bible, The Woman’s Bible: the Feminist Book that Suffragists Rejected
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Why We Oppose Votes for Men – a Poem from 1915
Alice Duer Miller (1874-1942) was born on July 28, 1874, in Staten Island, New York. She was an American poet, novelist, screenwriter, satirist, and feminist. The New York Tribune published a series of her wonderful satirical poems lambasting the objections … Continue reading
June 30, 1966 – National Organization for Women Day
June 30, 1966 – National Organization for Women Day: the largest U.S feminist organization is launched, and begins organizing immediately. Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Pauli Murray, and Gloria Steinem were among its first leaders. They were attending the Third National Conference … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged Betty Friedan, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Feminism, Gloria Steinem, National Organization for Women, NOW, Pauli Murray, Shirley Chisholm, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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TCS: International Women’s Day – The Day the Mountains Move
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Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Audre Lorde and Ada Limón, Feminism, Kajal Ahmad and Naomi Shihab Nye, Landays of Afghan Women, Muriel Rukeyser and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Solmaz Sharif and Yosano Akiko, TCS - International Womens Day - Day The Mountains Move, Yesenia Montilla and Tess Gallagher
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Word Cloud: ACTIVIST (REDUX – Women’s History Month)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Ask two hundred people on the main streets across America to name American women poets — if they came up with anyone, almost certainly it would be Emily Dickinson, and most would stop there, though a … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion, Activist, Cats, Feminism, Gardening, Marge Piercy, What Are Big Girls Made Of?, Women's History Month
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A Poem for Black Poetry Day
Coal by Audre Lorde I Is the total black, being spoken From the earth’s inside. There are many kinds of open. How a diamond comes into a knot of flame How a sound comes into a word, coloured By who … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights, Poetry
Tagged Audre Lorde, Black Poetry Day, Black Women, Coal, Feminism, LGBT rights
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Word Cloud: INNER-B!ȾȻH
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Originally posted on July 15, 2016 – I still feel under the weather, so I’m giving you a “golden oldie” this week that’s in keeping with Women’s History Month. :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: I normally try to abstain from vulgar … Continue reading