Tag: Women Authors

Why Representation Matters

The sixth grade stands out for me as one of those important milestones in life. As an adult, I have numerous precise moments of recollection where a memory…

Feminist Killjoys

In my ‘Problems and Issues in Feminist Theory’ graduate course in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, my professor assigned a new release in feminist and queer theory…

Linda Hogan’s Women Warriors

What first drew me to Native American literature and studies was a Native American fiction class in my Master’s program. Before this class, I hadn’t read any Native…

“Three Mountain Pass” — Connecting to Vietnam

For teenagers, the world they live in is often described as “normal” and everything else is “weird.” One of my goals as a history teacher is to help…