Tag: Women’s History Month
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Get up. You’re embarassing me.
March is Women’s History Month (in the US). This is a series of posts about important women. Do you have a friend who’s been part of your life for as long as you can remember? It’s a crazy, wonderful relationship. Almost like siblings, but you *choose* to stay close. Through the toughest times of my…
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“Changing a prejudicial law is the first step in changing society’s perceptions.”
March is Women’s History Month (in the US). I am doing a series of posts about women who’ve made an impression on me. You have probably never heard of Gwen Jacob. This is unfortunate. In the early 90s, Ms. Jacob fought in the Canadian court system for equal rights. It was a case that you…
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“I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.”
March is Women’s History Month (in the US). I am doing a series of posts about women who’ve influenced me. Katharine Hepburn was older than my grandmother, but everything about her just made sense. The more I learned about her, the more I watched her movies, the more I thought “this is the smartest ‘celebrity’…
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“One creates oneself”
March is Women’s History Month (in the US). This is a series of posts about women who’ve influenced me. The early 80s was pretty awesome for developing a love of science fiction and fantasy. A bunch of classic sci-fi movies and programs were being broadcast on public broadcasting stations on a regular basis, and franchises…
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“Organise, agitate, educate must be our war cry”
March is Women’s History Month (in the US). I’m doing a series of posts about women who have have an impact on me. History is peppered with extremes of those driven by social conscience and those driven by other goals. No country or state is free of a history of atrocities and horrors, even against…
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“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all those other ages you’ve been.”
March is Women’s History Month (in the US). I’m doing a series of posts about women who’ve inspired me. I’m running out of time for today’s post! I started reading Madeline L’Engle‘s “A Wrinkle in Time” books when I was in grade two or three. They were the first science fiction books I read, and…