When I first read Virginia Woolf (sometime in my high school), I was struck by her distinctly feminine voice. I was so enchanted by it, I didn’t want to read anything that did not sound like her. At that time, I had been reading hard fast-paced masculine mystery and thriller novels by John Grisham, Jeffrey… Continue reading Virginia Woolf
U for Urvashi Butalia, the force behind Zubaan Books. 🙂
T for ❤ ❤
Q for Qiu Jin. 🙂 Okay, I am going to admit, I didn’t think my Q through when I began this series; but but as a result I discovered this incredible woman. If you don’t know about her, Google her, you’ll know what I mean. Unfortunately, there weren’t a lot of pictures for me to… Continue reading Qiu Jin
My K ❤ Like many non-Malayalam readers, I got acquainted with her first through her autobiography…it might be one of the first truly feminist writing I had seen until then. I loved it so much, I made my mother sit down so I can read parts of it to her- ultimate sign of a book’s… Continue reading Kamala Das
Letter G! I knew what I was going to make for some of the letters before I even started doing my A. This was one of them. And yeah yeah, you might say that she is really more of a journalist than a writer, but she has been writing words for decades, and those words have… Continue reading Gloria Steinem
“Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.” – Charlotte Perkins Gilman Portrait #3 for letter C! {If you want to purchase this, contact me at turna.ami@gmail.com. All portraits in this series will be priced at 200 to 250 USD (+shipping).}
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