Tag Archives: women
In Dreams
I lost my dreams. Dreams — daydreams and night dreams — used to guide me. In the morning when I woke, I would make sure to remember what had happened to me during the night, and that memory would cling … Continue reading
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Rockhall-onomics
“‘Weekly record sales for a performer or band leap 40 to 60 percent, on average, in the weeks after selection,’ says David Bakula, a senior vice president at Nielsen SoundScan.” That’s why it matters that more women need to be … Continue reading
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Women, Art, and Activism
Last night I saw three generations of the Partnoy family present their creative works at LMU. Matriarch Raquel showed slides of her paintings and talked about what it was like to have a daughter “disappear” in Argentina. Poet Alicia had one of her daughters, a LMU senior, enact a story about her time in an Argentine “concentration camp.” Continue reading
More Women Killed
It seems to me that since the economic crash, violence against women, primarily perpetrated by men they know, has proliferated. Bud and I first noticed this in Miami, where often Latin men acted out their rage at economic disempowerment with … Continue reading
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See "The Runaways"
There are precious few movies about women rockers: The Girl Can’t Help It, What’s Love Got To Do With It, The Rose, Dreamgirls, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains. This paucity is just one of the reasons that Floria Sigismondi’s … Continue reading
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