The Nation

How Black Women Writers Got It Done

Nikki Giovanni standing by the lectern and woman singing during a performance at The Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival., 1973. (Photo by Jackson State University via Getty Images) In the early 1980s, ...
The Herald-Times

Room for all: Women Writing for (a) Change provides structure, empowerment

Humiliating others receives the frowning-face emoji in Women Writing for (a) Change. The group is an arts education and writing organization that teaches people, many of whom are females, to lead. All ...
GeekWire

The women writing checks: A list of female venture capitalists in the Pacific Northwest

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Sonali Vaid & Taylor Soper on Aug 10 ...
The Conversation

Why we still need the Women’s Prize for Fiction

Stacy Gillis does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
Philadelphia Mag

Women Writers Are Driving Philadelphia’s Literary Renaissance

Carmen Maria Machado is one of the country’s most celebrated contemporary fiction writers. A few years ago, she was catapulted into the national spotlight on the strength of her debut short-story ...
Slate

Women Writers Have Had Plenty of Babies. Here’s the Data.

In A Room of One’s Own (1929), Virginia Woolf argued that, historically, successful women writers have not been mothers. Of Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, and George Eliot, she noted, “not ...
ETH Zurich

"There was a real wave of women writing about architecture"

Anne Hultzsch, your research topic is rather unknown. How did you come up with it? The idea came partly from my teaching experience and a certain frustration with the canon of architectural literature ...
Smithsonian Magazine

For Generations, Black Women Have Envisioned a Better, Fairer American Politics

Patricia Roberts Harris, Vivian Malone and Zephyr Wright were among those in attendance at the March 1965 signing of the Voting Rights Act. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photo via Library of Congress ...
The Conversation

Women love playing sport – and writing about it. Here are 6 fascinating and surprising sports books by women

Kasey Symons has received funding from the Victorian Government, and national and state sport governing bodies, including the Australian Football League and the National Rugby League. She is one of ...
The Nation

The Obscured and Forgotten History of Black Communist Women

A new anthology edited by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean highlights the legacy and enduring relevance of Black communist women’s political activism in the early 20th century. Communist leader ...
AOL

“Men Writing Women”: 50 Times Male Authors Proved They Know Next To Nothing About Women (New Pics)

Have you ever read a book and thought, "Women's bodies don't really work like that" or "I've never seen a woman actually do anything like this"? Well, you wouldn't be alone. For most of history, ...