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Issue #26: Featuring Photography by Jacqui Bellamy |
Becoming a Vagina Warrior
Vagina Honors This past February, I was named a Vagina Warrior. "A Vagina Warrior? What's that?" you may ask. The term "warrior" may seem an odd one to associate with anti-violence work. Yet in feminist reclaiming of the word, it...
Featured Poet: Annette Marie Hyder
An Introduction by the Poet The good mother, the bad mother, the other mother These poems all have motherhood as their subject. Some of the mothers delineated are very plainly good or bad. Others are ambiguous, more nuanced in their shading. St...
Learning to Forgive
He had been dying for awhile. Cancer. First the liver, then spreading out of control. I envisioned an internal forest fire, blazing a path of destruction through his vital organs.
Questions
"Why did he leave me?" She asked, But she never should have. A trapdoor was released within her mind and she entered The Hall of Mirrors, where her question was reflected back at her: "Why? Why? Why?"
Mother of a Boy
Memoirs of a Modern Day Housewife Maggie. This was the name of the slender, petite girl that stood in front of me. She played a pretty melody on her clarinet using her soft, pale fifth-grade fingers. I gazed at her in disbelief. A sort of bewilderme...
Lipschtick
I wear lipstick. I think it started during my waitering days, when I'd wake up around 9:30 or 10:00 in the morning after a long shift the night before. I looked horrible and I needed to go down to the corner shop for coffee and cream, and I cr...
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Leisha Sagan
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Vagina Honors This past February, I was named a Vagina Warrior. "A Vagina Warrior? What's that?" you may ask. The term "warrior" may seem an odd one to associate with anti-violence work. Yet in feminis... |
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Amanda C. Bauch
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He had been dying for awhile. Cancer. First the liver, then spreading out of control. I envisioned an internal fores...
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Sarah Eddenden
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My son had show and tell today. He was supposed to bring something he brought back from a trip anywhere: vacation, sleep... |
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Pavelle Wesser
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"Why did he leave me?" She asked,
But she never should have. A trapdoor
was released within her mind and
she entered T...
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Nelly J. Aguilar
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Memoirs of a Modern Day Housewife Maggie. This was the name of the slender, petite girl that stood in front of me. She p...
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Agnieszka Niemira
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her hair a lion’s mane her face neither old nor young her smile knowing her eyes through-seeing |
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Esther Kane
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It seems that when dealing with difficult people, one of the most challenging types is someone who is narcissistic. Without getting all psychobabble on you and...
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Emily Habermehl
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Raisins and prunes (reduced for quick sale) When asked
She had hopped on
That motorcycle (told hesitation to take a backseat) Wrapped her arms around his
Leather jac...
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Sarah Eddenden
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I wear lipstick. I think it started during my waitering days, when I'd wake up around 9:30 or 10:00 in the morning after a long shift the night before. I looke... |
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Debbie Gisonni
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Have you ever wondered where the expression, "knock on wood" comes from? There are several theories dating back to the Pagans, Christians, and ancient Celtics...
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Mark A. Michaels and Patricia Johnson
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Many traditions see desire of all kinds, but sexual desire in particular, as negative, as something that must be suppressed. Desire is certainly complex. It ca...
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Latest Comments
"Tits... or Ass?!"
EXACTLY......empowering?? Wow any girl on that show that feels empowered is very confused. That is such an insult to one... | Becoming a Vagina Warrior
Leisha,
again congrats on your award this year. You truly are an amazing women, and you stand by everything you say and ... | "Tits... or Ass?!"
People thinking that putting a nearly naked chick up on a pedestal is "loving," "respecting," "admiring," and "empowerin... | "Tits... or Ass?!"
I know! They are so smug... as if they have the best job for women in the entire universe. I shouldn't judge, I guess, b... | "Tits... or Ass?!"
funny you would write about this - I never watched this and this week I was flipping the tv around between hockey period... |
Meet the Cover Artist
In This Issue: Meet Jacqui Bellamy of Pixelwitch Pictures
A graduate in Fine Art, Jacqui founded Pixelwitch Pictures in 2004 as an umbrella for her photography and film-making skills.
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Arts
Featured Poets Meet our featured poet...
In This Issue: Talented feminist poet Annette Marie Hyder honors Mother's Day with a selection of her work
Fiction & Poetry The art of creative expression...
In This Issue: Selections from Peter Schwartz, Agnieszka Niemira, Pavelle Wesser, and Emily Habermehl. And, Amanda C. Bauch learns how to forgive. More...
The Feminist Experience
The Feminist Experience The department that celebrates the merge of Real Life experiences with Feminista! perspectives.
In This Issue: Nelly J. Aguilar and Sarah Eddenden each talk about the unique challenges of mothering a boy... and our very own Leisha Sagan is honored as a Vagina Warrior. Read more...
Self-Empowerment
Self-Empowerment Self-improvement perspectives, advice, articles, and fun.
In This Issue: The power of positive thinking; a lesson in dealing with narcissists; and more...
Sexuality
Sexuality Erotic articles, short stories, and more.
In This Issue: Tantric desire as an evolutionary tool... Read more...
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