writing

February 21, 2019

Lily R. Mason’s Workshop for Writing Queer-Centered Sex Scenes

Ultimately, all of Mason’s tips and tricks to writing good queer-centered sex scenes are about embracing the vulnerability of such…

April 28, 2017

"You shouldn’t have to put whatever the fuck men want in front of your own discomfort."

April 3, 2016

Alice Walker's adverse experiences forged her into the woman of strong character and conviction who so beautifully championed race and…

March 31, 2016

Words have power. Stories, articles, and novels shape us. The writer and theorist Gloria Anzaldúa understood that. And because Anzaldúa's…

March 19, 2016

Mary Shelley is more than just the author of the immensely popular and well-known novel "Frankenstein," which inspired the creation…

February 12, 2015

I have sussed all taste and elegance from my mother. A box of Capris naps on her thigh, right…

March 12, 2014

As she refused to comply with societal gender norms, Sor Juana is considered to be one of the first women…

February 11, 2014

In the time of Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, women were allowed to study gynecology, obstetrics, healing, and midwifery,…