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What Does a Woman Need to Know?

8 March 2015 • Kimberly

"For no woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the ... Read More

Happy International Women’s Day

8 March 2015 • Kimberly

"Being a woman is not a spiritual or metaphysical experience. It is not a feeling and it is not a performative utterance. Being a woman is a lived experience with material consequences." —Elizabeth Hungerford Happy International Women's Day! #yesallwomen .   .   . xx ... Read More

You Don’t Have to Be Pretty

16 February 2015 • Kimberly

“We never say that all men deserve to feel beautiful. We never say that each man is beautiful in his own way. We don’t have huge campaigns aimed at young boys trying to convince them that they’re attractive, probably because we very rarely correlate a man’s worth with his appearance. The problem is ... Read More

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