Poetry for the Rest of Us 2022 – Ms. Magazine
April is National Poetry Month! Since my dormant love of poetry was reignited, I’ve found it so refreshing and inspiring to read beautiful collections each year and...
April 2022 Reads for the Rest of Us – Ms. Magazine
Each month, I provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.
As Book Bans Target LGBTQ+ Writers and Writers of Color, Here’s What Banned Books We’re Reading – Ms. Magazine
In the last few years, attempts at banning books in schools and libraries are occurring at a furious rate.
Book review: In Good Relation: History, Gender, and Kinship in Indigenous Feminisms – Canadian Journal of History
With In Good Relation: History, Gender, and Kinship in Indigenous Feminisms, editors Sarah Nickel (Tk’emlúpsemc, Ukrainian, French Canadian) and Amanda Fehr (white settler) have compiled...
Wisconsin Republicans Introduce Bill Authorizing Sandhill Crane Hunt – SIERRA
After decimating the state’s wolves, conservatives are targeting the iconic birds Last February Wisconsin’s Republican legislators made national headlines when they approved a hunt that...
“You Better Be Lightning”: Andrea Gibson on Gratitude and Peace Through Poetry – Ms. Magazine
Poet Andrea Gibson is not feeling gloomy right now—in fact, in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and a cancer diagnosis, they are feeling hope, gratitude, connectedness, peace and an immeasurable amount of love.