Reading can be escape and inspiration. Sometimes reading is difficult. Other times it’s easy. Reading can open our eyes and minds and hearts to different ways to think, a new world, or to life, love, and maybe death. One of the greatest things reading can give us is hope. Hope grew scarce during 2020. Now,… Continue reading Discover Hope in Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels
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She Threw Off Her Veil and Changed the World
She threw off her veil and changed the world. Huda Shaarawi (pronunciation) grew up in a harem and became Egypt’s leading women’s rights activist. Also, a philanthropist and founder of the first Egyptian feminist organization, Huda’s defiance still influences the world today. Early Life Huda Shaarawi (Also Huda Sharawi, Hudā Shaʿrāwī, Hoda Charaaoui) was born… Continue reading She Threw Off Her Veil and Changed the World
Will You Help Forge a Gender Equal World?
It takes hard work to forge a gender equal world. International Women’s Day reminds us that gender has been used to justify abuse for centuries.
Dystopian SF First Lines
The first line of a story, we’re told, must hook the reader. Do any of the lines in today’s Dystopian SF First Lines post hook you?
The First Female Presidential Candidate Spent Election Day in Jail
Fifty years before women could vote, a woman ran for the top office in the land. The law didn’t allow her to vote, but there was no law against her running for President of the United States of America. An activist for women’s rights, Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838-1927) the first female Presidential candidate spent election… Continue reading The First Female Presidential Candidate Spent Election Day in Jail