Quotations [and Responses] by Sandy Gillespie
Oct08

Quotations [and Responses] by Sandy Gillespie

  “Quotations [and Responses]” by Sandy Gillespie                                Helene Cixous [and me]          May 11, 1988, Irvine, California I only know what my direct experience...

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Knock by Dawn Banghart
Oct08

Knock by Dawn Banghart

  “Knock” by Dawn Banghart     ____________________ Share your response to this work, in any form, here     Dawn Banghart Artist Statement: Dawn works as a health physicist at Stanford University who prefers to view theworld upside down and sideways using words, photography, sports and love as aglue and safety net.

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Living With Ghosts by Ellen McLaughlin
Oct08

Living With Ghosts by Ellen McLaughlin

  “Living With Ghosts” by Ellen McLaughlin   It might seem odd that I would begin a speech about writing by talking about how I can’t seem to write, but I have been asked to talk about something I have a certain amount of expertise in and, well… Anyway, what I decided to do, since I was having so much difficulty just writing this speech, was to examine that difficulty. The first problem I encountered was that I...

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Your Voices Are Searchlights
Sep29

Your Voices Are Searchlights

  Dear Creative Sister, When we dare to meet in the deepest pools of creative intention, how will we introduce ourselves?   A Room of Her Own’s long vision is to amass a multimedia mother archive of the collective memory and storied history of women artists and writers. Weaving the diverse voices of our radiant Waves Anthology together with newly-submitted creative work, responses to The Q, Global Camps, and more, each...

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Yellow Eye by Andrea Mozarowski
Sep29

Yellow Eye by Andrea Mozarowski

  “Yellow Eye” by Andrea Mozarowski     The woman with one yellow eye entered the narrative decades ago, following my first trip to Ukraine, post-Perestroika. She first takes the form of a Romani woman, who barges into a scene set in Portobello Market and disrupts a drama triangle that includes the female and male protagonists, post-war Ukrainian refugees. Since then, she has abided in me, until recently,...

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