On this final night of Ramadan, I’m thinking of relief. Of the well-meaning sentence repeated in a month of late spring days, after years of summer fasts: Give thanks we have what we need to quiet hunger and thirst, some don’t. I’m not sure this Read More …
On Sunday, I was in the future. Six hours ahead of New York, standing under the Brandenburg Gate. I’d spent the afternoon visiting monuments along the Berlin Wall, following its line to various sites. I was focused on how we each act twice: action in Read More …
I’m forever a street kid. I wear out shoes and backpacks faster than I should, spend as much time as I can outdoors. This weekend’s heat invited sociability and irritability. I overheard multiple fights and frenzied invitations. Friends cheerfully calling to each other on opposite Read More …
Dear Readers Who ROAR: Last week I went to Kansas and participated in feminist history. That’s not a sentence I ever thought I’d type, but it’s true. A friend I’ve known for a long time asked me to visit and address the anniversary meeting of Read More …
A few days ago, someone suggested I’m an Angry Black Person. I was startled because I was eating delicious guacamole, and couldn’t recall sharing my work or opinions with this person. It was automatic, but maybe to prove something to myself, to her, to the Read More …
Dear Readers Who ROAR: Recently I attended a bookstore event with two authors, both women. One of them said, in an offhand comment, “Well, I’m not writing as a feminist,” meaning that she doesn’t include a lot of sexual politics in her novels. When she Read More …
Dear Readers who ROAR: You may not read everything that goes up on our site, and that’s fine—but if you’re reading any of the things that go up, you will have noticed that our world is in turmoil. The first time I understood that our Read More …
The Huffington Post article, “Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Under Fire For Comments About Trans Women,” is just one of the many that have recently been published regarding Adichie’s comments about trans women’s experiences. In an interview for British news station Channel 4, Adichie suggests that Read More …
Friends, co-agitators: One of the things I’ve realized in the past couple of weeks when I talk to people about ROAR is that we have awesome content that still needs to be discovered. Part of that process involves designing a new site that will allow Read More …
Friends, We have made it ONE month (actually we’ve been publishing now for 38 days when you read this)! Roar went live on Janurary 20th with a full week of content, and we started publishing every day with “My Abortion Story.” On January 27th, we Read More …