AWP Dreaming!
Headed to Seattle? Looking for a guide to all things literary and feminist at the AWP conference? We’re pleased to share the line up put together by poet Sheila McMullin, past So to Speak editor and...
View ArticleReclaiming Agnes: More musings on Fairy Tales by Assistant Editor Christina...
The Little Mermaid’s Predecessor That Most Feminists Don’t Know About. Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” is a goldmine for contemporary feminist fairy tale re-writers. Regardless of how...
View ArticleFeminism is… pretty simple: Fiction Editor Liz Egan Cuts to the Equality Chase
I did not start identifying as a feminist until I was in my mid-twenties. Like so many women (and men, too), I didn’t understand what the word “feminist” really meant, and because I grew up in a...
View ArticleFormer StS Blog Editor Sheila McMullin on VIDA and Why We Should Number Up,...
Did you know that in 2013, 39 men and 33 women were published in Fence Magazine? Or that, in the same year, Conjunctions published 50 women and 51 men? How about that 55 women and 49 men appeared in...
View ArticleHow We Can Number Up: Sheila McMullin Continues Her Discussion on VIDA Count...
In 2012 The Paris Review dedicated a very small slice of its pie to writings by women. Fortunately, they took notice of their VIDA pie chart and rang the alarms. This past Count showed The Paris Review...
View ArticleA Christian Feminist Weighs in on Reproductive Rights
I’d like to weigh on matters of faith and reproductive rights. The Supreme Court will soon decide whether to uphold the Affordable Care Act’s so-called “contraception mandate” or to offer exemptions...
View ArticleA Welcome Note from StS’s Editor-in-Chief
By Jessie Szalay Like many people who love school (or have residual nightmares of it), for me, January 1st has never felt like the start of a new year. Rather it’s September, the time of backpacks and...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Asian-American Female Troll
The Rise of the Asian-American Female Troll Jean Kim Should I, as a long-silenced Asian-American female, be proud or horrified at the rise of the Asian-American female media troll? Yes troll, as in...
View ArticleSave the Date for StS’s Annual Will Read for Women!
So to Speak Will Read for Women Did you know it’s National Crime Victims’ Rights Week? So to Speak is proud to host our annual Will Read for Women reading benefiting the Bethany House of Northern...
View ArticleWill Read for Women is Postponed Until Further Notice
So to Speak Will Read for WomenSo to Speak’s annual Will Read for Women benefitting Bethany House of Northern Virginia was scheduled for today, Wednesday, May 6th at 7:00 p.m. but has been cancelled...
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