Before Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began writing his first compositions, his older sister Maria Anna Mozart, nicknamed Nannerl, had already proven herself a prodigy. The two toured Europe together as children—she…
Identity politics has its roots in an expansive, radical agenda. But you wouldn’t know that from its liberal critics. “We haven’t taken the intellectual contributions of black women seriously enough…
“You wouldn’t give the vote so I had to use a rock” - Carry A. Nation. {listen}
Our series dedicated to the women's movement continues with the changing cultural roles of the 1970s, when women poets refused to be marginalized or tokenized, and public poetry readings and…
A woman who died in 1998 was married to a man who was born a slave and fought in the civil war in the union army. {listen} here is her…