Tag: Unapologetic Women

“But writing itself, living a life defined by work and intellect rather than love or marriage, became her primary feminist commitment.”

Today’s memoirists and personal essay writers owe a debt of gratitude to the Prozac Nation author for rewriting an inhibiting rule.

Lisa Whittington-Hill on why Courtney Love deserves to be the girl with the most cake.

In fraught games of power politics, sometimes the best revenge is not being exiled to die alone on an island in the South Atlantic.

Even the Reign of Terror was no match for a determined young woman with a pug and a prophecy on her side.

Lorena and John Wayne Bobbit’s famous castration story remains relevant twenty-five years after the incident, and just as painful.

Flashy hooligans like Moll Cutpurse and Long Meg sported broad-brimmed hats, wore “ruffianly short locks,” and carried swords. Other women lived quietly in secret same-sex marriages.

Here are the voices of the Alaskans threatened by climate change.

A group of determined adventurers spent seven days driving the desert in the first all-female road rally.

Lidia Yuknavitch, author of the acclaimed new novel The Small Backs of Children, has a haunting essay up at Guernica about “Laume,” a mythological water spirit and guardian of all children that her Lithuanian grandmother introduced her to when she was young, and about the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of violence and […]