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WOW2 – July 2022 Trailblazing Women - Special Edition
There are five Saturdays in this July, so I’m taking tonight off to celebrate his birthday with my husband.The next regular installment of WOW2 will post on Saturday, July 23rd.With all the big ongoing...
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Morning Open Thread: Silence Will Contain All the Sounds
July 18th is World Listening Day.Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post with a MOTley crew of hosts who choose the topic for the day's posting. We support our community, invite and share ideas,...
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WOW2: July's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History - July 17 through...
WOW2 is a four-times-a-month sister blog to This Week in the War on Women. This edition covers trailblazing women and events from July 17 through July 24.The next installment of WOW2 will be on July...
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Morning Open Thread: If Humanity Seems to Have Left You Behind
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. — Eric Hoffer, American longshoreman and philosopher.Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post with a...
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WOW2: July's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History - July 25 through...
I believe that the rights of women andgirls is the unfinished business ofthe 21st century.— Hllary Clinton“We are not really senseless, and we are not angels, too,But very human beings, human just as...
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Morning Open Thread: Reprise of the Dame Days of Summer
.The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in turning. — Natalie Babbit Welcome to Morning Open...
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WOW2: August's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History - August 1...
“Feminism is the radical notionthat women are human beings.”― Cheris Kramarae, Women’s Studies ScholarWOW2 is a four-times-a-month sister blog to This Week in the War on Women. This edition covers...
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Morning Open Thread: We Should Be Kind While There Is Still Time
“The children start school now in August.They say it has to do with air-conditioning,but I know sadism when I see it.”― from My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South, by Rick...
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WOW2: August's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History - August 9...
“…the right to terminate a pregnancy arose straight out of the right to purchase and use contraception. In turn, those rightsled, more recently, to rights of same-sex intimacy and marriage. They are...
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Morning Open Thread: Poets Forged in the Heat of August
“I just completed a long car trip on a Sunday in August with two small children, which believe me is enough to convince you that Samuel Beckett was right about everything.” ― Lev GrossmanWelcome to...
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WOW2: August's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History - August 17...
“Lawmakers, either get out of the vagina business or go to medical school.”– Wendy Davis, Texas State Senator.WOW2 is a four-times-a-month sister blog to This Week in the War on Women. This edition...
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Morning Open Thread: The Mindfulness of Memory and Time Getting On
This is a week to celebrate some triumphs in the long struggle for Universal Human Rights, but also a time to recognize the evil and cruelty of the past, and to rip off the masks of all of Evil’s...
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Bookchat: Astronomical Non-Fiction – The Last Stargazers
Welcome to bookchat! Where you can talk about anything; books, plays, essays, and audio books. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us.I’ve been married for almost 40...
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WOW2: August's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History - August 25...
“We cannot accept any code or creed that uniformlydefrauds woman of all her natural rights.”—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Woman's Bible WOW2 is a four-times-a-month sister blog to This Week in the War...
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Morning Open Thread: August 28 - Two Poems by Rita Dove on Her Birthday
Good morning everyone and welcome to Sunday’s Morning Open Thread.Morning Open Thread is a daily, copyrighted post from a host of editors and guest writers. We support our community, invite and share...
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Morning Open Thread: Between Truth and Falsehood, a Little Empty Space
“All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, ’Something’s wrong, let’s change it for the better.’”– Sonia Sanchez, poet, activist, and scholar Welcome to...
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WOW2 – September's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History - 9-1 through...
“Charge hell with a bucket of water.”– Liz Carpenter, American political humorist, speech writer, and feministWOW2 is a four-times-a-month sister blog to This Week in the War on Women. This edition...
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Morning Open Thread: This Is Not a Small Voice You Hear
“The poet speaks to all men of that other life oftheirs that they have smothered and forgotten.”– Dame Edith Sitwell.Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post with a MOTley crew of hosts who choose...
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Morning Open Thread: September 8 – Two Poems by Jack Prelutsky on His Birthday
Good morning everyone and welcome to Thursday’s Morning Open Thread.Morning Open Thread is a daily, copyrighted post from a host of editors and guest writers. We support our community, invite and share...
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WOW2: September's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History - 9-9 through...
If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote.”–Dolores...
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