For your Feminist Friday enjoyment: every plant and animal from Emily Dickinson’s poems, catalogued.
Read Weird Sister Caolan Madden’s poem “Haworth Honeymoon” in the new issue of Inferior Planets.
Krystal Languell talks about unpaid labor, ethics, and the unsung heroes of small press publishing.
“There needs to be a literary Juneteenth. We can’t rely on publications and presses that have, through the actions and complicity of their leadership, proven oppressive.” – Casey Rocheteau on why she left The Offing.
“The last few years alone have given us grown-up rocker girls (Girl in a Band, Rat Girl, Violence Girl, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl), science girls (Lab Girl, The Girls of Atomic City, Rise of the Rocket Girls), WWII girls (Lilac Girls), ballet girls (Girl Through Glass), and journalist girls (Good Girls Revolt)” – Robin Wasserman on the “unstoppable wave of ‘Girl’-titled books.”
“Lemonade is not a textbook—it is the product of a black woman’s lived experience.” – Tamara Winfrey Harris responds to bell hooks’ critique of Beyoncé’s album.
“His eyes looked like eyes because they were eye-shaped, not almonds.” — from “If White Characters Were Described like People of Color in Literature.”
What did we miss this week? Let us know in the comments! <3
