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Category: Books and Writers

  • If you haven’t heard Lizzo’s “Juice,” are you really living?

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  • Words of Wise Women

    “I created a $2B+ revenue stream for a major Corp with my imagination.” -Shonda Rhimes #wordsofwisewomen

  • Words of Wise Women

    “What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.” -Susan Sontag H/t The Paris Review #wordsofwisewomen

  • Women Talking About

    “It cost me a lot to be who I am. I stood up in front of the world with my arms wide open and I said: Come, let’s talk. Let’s talk, night after night. And the world and me, we talked every night. Sometimes I was rejected. It cost me so much to be out…

  • Imagining the civic self: architecture and public art in Cleveland

    Mirror panels reflecting Cleveland Public Auditorium The interplay between Cleveland’s architecture and public art serves as a striking and ever adapting chronicle of the city’s history and ambitions. Like many great American cities, Cleveland was an industrial titan, experienced White flight, and is now being “rediscovered” by the children and grandchildren of those who abandoned…

  • Women Talking About

    “One had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap.” -Ida B. Wells

  • Women of Portland

    Name: Anne K.F. Neighborhood: Alameda Years lived in Portland: 65+ 1. What do you like most about Portland? The fact that we come up with initiatives for change that become models for the nation. For the last eight years Morrison Children and Family Services has worked with parents identified as possibly losing custody of their…

  • If you’re looking for books by Asian American authors, check out this list created by the Los Angeles County Library for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. H/t @nancywyuen https://lacountylibrary.overdrive.com/collection/152846

  • Henrietta Lacks by Kadir Nelson Henrietta Lacks “Mother of Modern Medicine” saved and continues to save and extend the lives of millions of people around the world. Ms. Lacks was honored with a portrait by Kadir Nelson to be displayed at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of African American History and…