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7 Books that Inspired Jessica Handler’s Novel of Second-Wave Feminism and Rock and Roll
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Handler’s latest novel, The World to See (Regal House, May), follows a young woman’s unexpected friendship with her female rock ’n’ roll hero. My novel explores what happens when friendship becomes performance and the resulting collateral damage blocks the road to reclaiming one’s authentic self. I set the novel in the early 1960s through the late 1970s for several reasons.
THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST ASKS: Maxine Montilus on Radical Self-Love, and her "Our Bodies, No Apologies" This Saturday at Triskelion
On Saturday, February 7th at Triskelion Arts, MV Dance Project’s Our Bodies, No Apologies invites audiences to step into an intimate evening of movement, reflection, and radical self-love. Choreographer and founder Maxine Montilus draws on Sonya Renee Taylor’s The Body Is Not an Apology and her own journey—shaped by Haitian heritage and the legacy of her grandmothers – to craft a working environment that centers care, transparency, and social connection.
Our Bodies Of Two Jammu Village Guards Killed By Terrorists Discovered
Safety forces on Friday recovered the our bodies of two village defence guards (VDG) a day after they have been kidnapped and shot lifeless by terrorists within the Kishtwar district of Jammu amid protests, shutdown, and outrage over the killings. On Thursday morning, 45-year-old Nazir Ahmad and 33-year-oldKuldeep Kumar, each residents of Ohli-Kuntwara village, took their cattle for grazing within the Munzla Dhar forest.
Our Bodies and Our Mighty Spiritual Weapons to Pull Down Strongholds
Our Bodies and Our Mighty Spiritual Weapons to Pull Down Strongholds Shahla Eslamzadeh
Held Hostage By Our Bodies
By Orkney Fibromyalgia Sufferer Living with a chronic illness feels like our bodies are holding us to ransom. We get no rewards for our attempts to function like a “normal” person. We struggle with the everyday things that most people take for granted. Managing life with a chronic illness(s) is exhausting. We experience multiple layers of fatigue. It’s important to note that fatigue is different from feeling tired.
Industry Leading Scientists Bust CBD Myths
Our understanding of CBD and its potential benefits has accelerated dramatically in the past decade and will only increase further in the coming years. However, despite the popularity of CBD products, many remain confused or unsure about what it is and what it actually does. The Internet can be a fantastic resource to learn about CBD, but there is also no shortage of misinformation in the form of articles that make dismissive claims about it, or those which are flat-out false.
Unpacking “My Body, My Choice”
This article is part of the Unpacking Culture series in which we examine a well-known axiom and weigh any true or positive aspects of it against any negative or misleading connotations of the phrase. Deconstructing a Pro-Abortion Slogan On a cold Saturday morning last April, I sat on a bench in Eastown Grand Rapids, Michigan, and took notes for an article as three young adults milled around a sign with a picture of an aborted baby.
Debunking the Myth of ‘Mind Over Matter’ - Juice 107.3
Despite the recent proliferation of this research, many of our standing structures already reveal our lack of rational thinking. Look no further than marketing. Marketers have been capitalising on the persuasive power of our physical instincts for decades. For example, it’s common knowledge that advertisements use colours to evoke particular emotions so that the consumer is hooked before they’ve even processed the ad.
Debunking the Myth of ‘Mind Over Matter’
Despite the recent proliferation of this research, many of our standing structures already reveal our lack of rational thinking. Look no further than marketing. Marketers have been capitalising on the persuasive power of our physical instincts for decades. For example, it’s common knowledge that advertisements use colours to evoke particular emotions so that the consumer is hooked before they’ve even processed the ad.
Debunking the Myth of ‘Mind Over Matter’
By: Michael McQueen We all like to believe we put our mind over matter. Overall, we are rational agents with free will who have control over our bodies, impulses and sensations. However, more and more studies are emerging that prove this belief to be far from the truth. Researchers across disciplines and cultures are showing that our bodies are far more involved in our thinking than we like to believe.
A Poison Like No Other
Book Description “Informed, utterly blindsiding account.” - Booklist, starred review It’s falling from the sky and in the air we breathe. It’s in our food, our clothes, and our homes. It’s microplastic and it’s everywhere—including our own bodies. Scientists are just beginning to discover how these tiny particles threaten health, but the studies are alarming.
6 Classic Wellness Books For Women That Still Rule
Back in the 80’s and early 90’s, wellness wasn’t nearly the cultural phenomenon it is now. It was long before the days of superfoods and meditation retreats and trend-setting celebrity lifestyle gurus took centre stage in the mainstream. Before all THIS, wellness advice was a very different beast – it was a simpler time for every body-dwelling human being and health books followed suit. Here are six classic books worth checking out for their back-to-basics wisdom.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: 50 Years of Education and Activism
Living reference work entry First Online: 10 February 2022 3 Mentions 5 Downloads Abstract Our Bodies Ourselves has been at the forefront of the women’s health movement for half a century, both reflecting and shaping that movement. This chapter summarizes that history, including how its mission and distribution have evolved over time.
Women Lay Claim: Anindita Ghose's Artful Debut Novel Confronts Privilege, Falters on Solutions
In early 2020 a communal riot had swept through parts of New Delhi in the wake of protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, prompting Arundhati Roy to describe rising religious intolerance in the country as “our version of the coronavirus”. (The pandemic was still not at our shores.) Describing an ideology in terms of a disease is not new – one is reminded of Albert Camus’ The Plague, Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward, and Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor.
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How we changed in 2020
My dreams often ring with sounds of “mute yourself, children”. If work deadlines weren’t enough, now there are ones of scanned homework and weekend assignments. This has been the year when online classes took over my entire life. On most days, we are swimming in printouts on the water cycle, mixed math problems and bird feathers. You have to hear it to believe the power of that loud “MUMMMMAAAAA, my network is disconnected”, which makes one drop everything to pray to the Wi-Fi gods.
Just 25 Reproductive Rights Books Literally Everyone Should Read-Yes, Everyone
Photo credit: john francis From Cosmopolitan ICYMI: Reproductive health advocates have been worried about the future of abortion access since President Trump took office. Since 2016, he quickly reinstated the global gag rule and appointed two conservative justices to the Supreme Court. But when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—a bastion of reproductive rights—died just a month before the November 2020 election, it felt like the last nail in the coffin of Roe v. Wade.
Inside The New Human: The Near Future of Embeddable, Implantable Technology
The line separating human from machine got a bit fuzzier last month, when Google finalized two patents for smart contact lenses designed to alert people with diabetes to potentially dangerous dips in blood sugar levels. Around the same time, scientists at the University of Louisville helped three people with complete lower limb paralysis move their legs and feet by stimulating electronic devices they’d embedded in their spinal cords.
The War Crime No One Wants to Talk About
nonfiction Soviet soldiers harass a woman in Leipzig in 1945. The Red Army assaulted hundreds of thousands of women across Germany, Christina Lamb writes in “Our Bodies, Their Battlefields.” Sept. 22, 2020 OUR BODIES, THEIR BATTLEFIELDS War Through the Lives of Women By Christina Lamb In one of the more haunting stories in Christina Lamb’s urgent book, a 7-month-old baby is raped.
The War Crime No One Wants to Talk About (Review)
OUR BODIES, THEIR BATTLEFIELDS War Through the Lives of Women By Christina Lamb The atrocities in “Our Bodies, Their Battlefields” horrify, as they should. Lamb, a veteran foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times of London, does society a service by forcing us to look. Rape, she writes, is the “most neglected” war crime of the 1949 Geneva Convention. It’s rarely prosecuted. It’s rarely written about.
Mothers, daughters and rocky roads
I am not revealing too much when I say that the thread running through the first episode of Masaba Masaba is a mother’s anxious calls—unanswered, ignored—to her daughter. The “can’t live with them-can’t live without them" mother-daughter dynamic at the heart of Netflix’s new show about designer Masaba Gupta and her mother, actor Neena Gupta, is compelling precisely because we have seen so little of it. To be fair, the trope has been sparingly explored even globally.
Valentine’s Day
Say It With Chickens Photo by Jordan Whitt on Unsplash At some point in the relationship, every man I’ve ever gone out with has looked at me sadly and concluded “You aren’t very romantic, are you?” I am not. I am loving and funny and loyal. But romance has never been my thing. Hearts and flowers? Strolling hand-in-hand? Candle lit dinners for two? No thanks. Love at first sight? Not for me. I’ve always been this way.
The difficult poetry of love and loss
HomeLatestTrendingMy Reads Auto Expo 2020Budget 2020Assembly Elections 2020Market DashboardCompaniesMarketsPodcastsMoneyStart-upsMutual FundsNRI Investment QueriesInsuranceTechnologyIndustryLoungeOpinionPoliticsMint 50 - Top Mutual FundsMark To MarketLong ReadsPlain Facts Detail from ‘Group Of Three Girls’ (1935) by Amrita Sher-Gil. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) 4 min read .
It’s a Good Thing I Have a Dog
Otherwise I’d Be Talking to Myself Captain (photo by Diane Blum. Used with permission.) One of the best things about having a dog is that you always have someone to talk to. I’m not a crazy old lady talking to herself. I’m a crazy old lady talking to a Yorkie-poo. What do I tell Captain? Just about everything.
Death Comes For Fluffy the Cat
Loss Hurts. That’s Why You Need a Friend. Photo by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash I’m always sad on the anniversary of the day my mother died, so when Stella phoned to tell me her cat was failing, it’s not as if her news wrecked an otherwise fabulous afternoon. Cancer took my mother on April 27, 1979. At 57, she was not ready to die and, at 24, I was not ready to lose her. Since then, April 27th has been a tough day for me. “Is there any chance you could drive us to the animal hospital?” Stella asked.
Books of the week: From These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light to VK Krishna Menon's biography, our picks
Living Aarushi Agrawal Dec 08, 2019 09:48:03 IST We love stories and there is nothing like a good book that promises a couple of hours of absorption. Every Sunday, we will have a succinct pick of books, across diverse genres, that have been newly made available for your reading pleasure.
Binge Worthy: Crowdfunding Picks
Sometimes there’s no better way to decompress from a long day or a stressful week than watching an episode of your favorite show. Or four. Or 10. There’s no shame in a good binge-watching session every so often. Luckily, Women and Hollywood’s new crowdfunding selections have you covered the next time you’re looking to watch a serial narrative unfold before you, one episode at a time. Whether you watch them over the course of a few weeks or all in one sitting — that’s none of our business.
June 2019 Film Preview
The summer movie season is kicking off with dozens of films helmed by and centered on women. From Sundance pics to mega blockbusters, June promises to be a month chock-full of exciting releases. The highly anticipated, Mindy Kaling-penned “Late Night” (June 7) features Emma Thompson as the only female late-night talk show host — who it turns out does not have a single woman on her writing staff. Kaling’s character is in the right place at the right time and gets her dream job.
Weekly Update for May 31: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Playing Near You
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING Too Late to Die Young – Written and Directed by Dominga Sotomayor (Opens in NY; Opens in LA June 7) Set in post-Pinochet Chile in the summer of 1999, “Too Late to Die Young” tells the story of Sofía (Demian Hernández), a 16-year-old who finds herself on the brink of major change. Her commune is debating whether or not to move forward with a generator that would bring them electricity.
Essential tips and tools to make your sex life deeper
Whether you’re taking time for yourself to wind down and relax or to massage the stress out, your mental health benefits from self care just as much as your physical health. And we all know they’re equally important – especially if you’re sexually active. Sexual self care is vital, end of story. Yes, regular doctor visits are important, but are they enough when it comes to your sexual health? Getting to know yourself sexually is not only a lifelong journey, but it’s extremely rewarding.
Books That Shaped America
Theodor Seuss Geisel was removed as editor of the campus humor magazine while a student at Dartmouth College after too much reveling with fellow students.
7 Popular Banned Books Related to Health and Wellness
7 Popular Banned Books Related to Health and Wellness In honor of Banned books Week, we compiled a list of popular health-related books that are victims of censorship. By Carolyn Cakir September 24, 2014 Photo: Amazon.com It’s Banned Books Week, a celebration of the freedom to read. In honor of this occasion, we compiled a list of popular health-related books that are victims of censorship. The titles below have all been either challenged or outright banned by various organizations.
Literature About Medicine May Be All That Can Save Us
Literature About Medicine May Be All That Can Save Us The language gap frustrates your visit to your doctor. He seems not to understand the problem because you can’t describe it lucidly enough. You don’t understand the proposed treatment because he can’t explain it. I’ve sometimes foresworn medical help because the complexity of voicing what is wrong has felt heavier than the sickness itself.
Just 25 Reproductive Rights Books Literally Everyone Should Read—Yes, Everyone
ICYMI: Reproductive health advocates have been worried about the future of abortion access since President Trump took office. Since 2016, he quickly reinstated the global gag rule and appointed two conservative justices to the Supreme Court. But when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—a bastion of reproductive rights—died just a month before the November 2020 election, it felt like the last nail in the coffin of Roe v. Wade.
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