Vicki Randle ©2013 All rights Reserved
On Race and Gender- Michfest
...(My) thoughts about the controversy over the womyn-born-womyn policy at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival: As a person who on a daily basis perceives and endures sexism, racism, homophobia, and outright class-based snobbery, I really do understand what it feels like to be standing on the outside of the place where power resides...Read More
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Rachel Wahba  ©2013 All rights reserved
The Rock Star Room? Nope... "What? NO! You really don't want that room? Whyyyyy? Come on!" says another cute young guy at the front desk. (Rock star hotel manager was gone for the day.) "uh, can you see we are not 20-something, dude? I mean I love the STONES and I just saw them in concert, but this room...ah..no..." Read More |
 Monica Palacios ©2013 All rights reserved
Gender Fluid- On the Rocks
I became a big basketball jock at my all girl Catholic high school and the chicks liked my silly sexy vibe. Those coquettish girls would always tell me, "Monica, you act like a guy." To which I would reply exuding my swagger in my jock apparel while running my fingers through my hair, "So." They wanted to bounce my ball, hard... Read More |
Dr. Glenda Corwin ©2013 All rights reserved
Lesbian Dating, Building Trust
You just can't talk someone into trusting you. It's a process, it develops by itself, and if you push it too much, you're being...untrustworthy! I say untrustworthy because when you've got an agenda to convince someone she should trust you, you're not really respecting her pace, or listening to what she says... Read More
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Robin Lowey © 2013 All rights reserved
DJ Rockaway: The Interview
I've been DJ'ing for over a decade. I was born and raised in NY, and all my life I have loved music. I absolutely love to dance. I dance in my car. I dance walking down the street. I dance in the middle of the grocery store aisles. One day I just woke up and said, "I want to be a DJ". I knew it was in my blood... Read More
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Jewelle Gomez ©2013 All rights reserved
Have We Come A Long Way, Baby? I recently went to hear a conversation between feminist icons Gloria Steinem and Letty Cotten Pogrebin and felt lucky that they were still around to reflect on from whence we've come. Both in their seventies, have survived cancer and were discussing how to care for loved ones who are ill without becoming a pain in the butt... Read More
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Margie Adam © 2013 All rights reserved
Toni Morrison & Ntozake Shange
JG: Ntozake Shange had a sense that there was a way for her to capture the beautiful energy women had with each other and that African Americans in general had with each other. She didn't do it by going back in history as much as creating a dramatic place that existed just for her. "For Colored Girls..." existed in a very particularized place. Read More
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