26 Jun Harvesting Darkness
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Harvesting Darkness is the title of my new book of poems, due out this coming September.
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18 Jun Jane Fonda on Cancer and Climate
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This week, I'm turning over my blogpost space to my sister, friend, and co-founder of The Women's Media Center, climate activist and actor, Jane Fonda.
05 Jun Naming
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The philosopher Susanne K. Langer wrote, “The notion of giving something a name is the vastest generative idea that ever was conceived.”...
29 May Suffer the Little Children
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I'm not a Catholic and not a child and decidedly not a little boy. Yet this story, covered in depth by Ruth Graham of the New York Times earlier this month, haunts me.
15 May Running the Gauntlet
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I often think that every disadvantaged — hell, call it what it is: oppressed – group must endure certain ritualistic phases imposed by its oppressors.
01 May It Comes With the Territory
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Recently, I was having a conversation with a woman—a new acquaintance, highly intelligent, a theatre actor, and a feminist—who said she was finding herself furious at young people these days.
10 Apr Losin’ Your Religion?
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Here's a story that is of quite stunning importance to our country. As the United States adjusts to an increasingly nonreligious population, thousands of churches are closing every year.
27 Mar Time Out Of Mind
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I sometimes love to redefine stuff--concepts, ideas, certainly stereotypes--stuff that we were certain we had already settled and were positive about.
20 Mar Knowing Our Worth
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Women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights, once and for all. --Hillary Rodham Clinton, 1995 UN Conference on Women, Beijing, China.
Please settle in, because this may take awhile. I write it with a heavy heart.
13 Mar The Peanut Farmer Hero
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This week, on my podcast "Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan," I pay tribute to a remarkable man: former President Jimmy Carter. Our conversation (listen here), originally taped in 2014, is unique for a number of reasons.