Nina MacLaughlin says that she began her brilliant, lyrical, painful new book “Wake, Siren” when she took a stab at rewriting the ancient Greek and Roman tale of Callisto from…Continue Reading →
Tess has time-traveled to 1992 to attend a riot grrrl concert at the start of Annalee Newitz’s new science fiction novel “The Future of Another Timeline” (Tor Books). She’s snuck…Continue Reading →
On Thursday, Marilyn Artus brought her national “Her Flag” women’s suffrage centenary celebration to Boston. To mark the hundredth anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed the right to vote…Continue Reading →
The idea for the Make The Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon originated with a bad day in a bathroom at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab. After the birth of…Continue Reading →
What happens when you take India’s two-millennia-old epic the “Mahabharata” and retell it with an all-female cast? That’s the experiment Stage Ensemble Theater Unit (SETU) explores in its performances at…Continue Reading →
“I was able to do something maybe wilder than I would have on my own,” the Boston artist Barbara Swan would say about her illustrations for Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston poet…Continue Reading →
“The Women’s March was coming,” Narya Marcille recalls, “and I was furious about the outcome of the election and I had nowhere to put that energy. I so wanted to…Continue Reading →
After the 2017 Boston Women’s March, thousands of participants left their protest signs around the iron fence surrounding the Boston Common Central Burying Ground. They were going to be thrown…Continue Reading →
Here are some of the best signs from “The Cambridge/Boston Women’s March 2018: The People Persist.” The rally attracted thousands of people to Cambridge Common this afternoon. Also: See our main…Continue Reading →
One year after hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets in Women’s Marches across the nation to signal their opposition to the Trump administration, Brockton’s Fuller Craft Museum…Continue Reading →