Home, Body, Witches: Laura Grothaus Writes on the Interior Spaces of the...
The following is a guest post by Laura Grothaus, author of Baba Yaga in Conversation with her Home, poetry runner-up. The time has come to examine the term “homebody.” As a lady, wary of the booby...
View ArticleFailing Feminist or Oversimplified Ideology? Lucy Green Writes on Love and...
The following is a guest post by Lucy Green, author of Melt, StS’s Nonfiction Contest Winner. I am honored to have my essay “Melt” included in the Spring 2013 issue of So to Speak. I’m also surprised...
View Article“The Thousand Gestures,” or What I Learned from Hagar
The following is a guest post by Caitlin Cowan author of Every Creeping Thing, StS’s Poetry Runner-Up Winner Yesterday I saw a pink plastic vacuum cleaner in the toy department at Target. This is why...
View ArticleAWP Recap: StS Favorite Feminists Reading
Moira Egan, Lara Glenum, Danielle Pafunda What a whirlwind of an AWP weekend! For all of you who made it to Boston, we hope you had the most amazing time, met your favorite writers, met new favorite...
View ArticleWill Read for Women 2013!
On Friday, April 12th, So to Speak will host our second annual reading drive to benefit a local domestic violence shelter. The reading will feature poetry by Kyle Dargan, Jill Leininger, Mel Nichols,...
View ArticleOn Writing “Empty Cases”
The following is a guest post by Spring 2013 fiction contributor, Sarah Seybold. As I worked on “Empty Cases,” I didn’t think of it as a feminist piece of writing. In fact, I think of my writing as...
View ArticleFriday, April 12th Will Read For Women Donation Drive
Tonight, at the Black Squirrel in Adams Morgan (2427 18th Street NW Washington D.C.),we will host our second annual Will Read For Women Donation Drive to benefit the Bethany House women’s shelter of...
View ArticleI AM WOMAN
The following is a guest post by Sheryl Rivett, George Mason University MFA Fiction student and StS 2013-2014 Blog Editor. During the second wave of feminism in the sixties and seventies, my mother...
View ArticleWhat? You Birth at Home AND You’re a Feminist?
I was pregnant three weeks after I was married. It was unexpected, delaying my undergraduate graduation for longer than I care to admit and derailing my plans for graduate school until a later season...
View ArticlePerfect People are Boring: Monica Marier from Tangent Artists speaks out
Monica Marier By Day: Mother of Two and Freelance Artist) By Night: Writer, Character Design, and Pencils for “The Knights of Leviathan” First of all, I’ll state, for the record, one of the first rules...
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The following is a debut post by Paula Beltrán, George Mason University MFA Fiction student and StS 2013-2014 Assistant Blog Editor. I’ve known I was a feminist since before I could write the word in...
View ArticleAuthor Elizabeth Huergo on Feminism, Writing, and the Experience of Exile –...
Elizabeth Huergo is a professor of English at Montgomery College, and an adjunct professor in Women’s Studies at George Mason University. She recently published her first novel The Death of Fidel Pérez...
View ArticleAuthor Elizabeth Huergo on Feminism, Writing, and the Experience of Exile –...
(photo credit: National Geographic Magazine Photo of the Day, May 18, 2010) We continue our conversation with Cuban-American professor and author Elizabeth Huergo. If you missed the first half of the...
View ArticleLooking Back at StS’s Hispanic Heritage Month Series
Color Guard and Mariachi at the John F. Kennedy Center this past September (Larry French/Getty Images) The past few weeks So to Speak has devoted the blog to “Hispanic Heritage Month,” the official...
View ArticleOn Being Silenced
The following is a guest post by writer and HIV nurse, Melissa Schuppe: Last week, I attended an evening writing workshop with a local college professor. I went out of a desire to get out of the house,...
View ArticleFairy Tales and Feminism: Christina Collins on the Need to Retell
Fairy tales—a term that might not be considered “literary” in some circles, but So to Speak’s assistant editor Christina Elaine Collins will argue with you for days on end about the artistic, social,...
View ArticlePull-Ups: One Feminist’s Take on the Controversy
photo by Stephen Morton for The New York Times As a feminist, I was interested in the Marine Corps’s January decision to delay the implementation of its testing standards when 55 percent of women...
View ArticleAWP 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...
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