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What Women Want

No longer just a film featuring Mel Gibson — We women want a pretty simple thing, one that society has made so hard and convoluted: to be free from discrimination based on sex. This line is buried in Ashley Judd’s opinion piece on CNN.com, following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg. I read the statement several times, wishing it…

Womens Rights

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What Women Want
What Women Want
Womens Rights

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Published in An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)

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On Menstrual Synchrony

Where poets and science collide in the body — “Could menstruation and its observances in fact be experienced as empowering for women?” Social anthropologist Camilla Power writes, discussing the tradition of menstrual huts of Northern California’s Yurok people. I read this, while menstruating alone in my basement apartment, in the middle of quarantine, grieving the loss of blood —…

Menstruation

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On Menstrual Synchrony
On Menstrual Synchrony
Menstruation

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Published in Wisdom Body Collective

·6 days ago

Everything’s Changing

A review of Chelsea Stickle’s new chapbook from Thirty West Publishing — When lockdown began Stephanie Michele and I exchanged an old suitcase. She filled it with books; I filled it with fruit on her birthday. We dropped it on the doorsteps of houses above our basement apartments and waved from our cars. …

Book Review

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Everything’s Changing
Everything’s Changing
Book Review

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Published in Wisdom Body Collective

·Jan 11

Wolf Moon: When Things Feel Far

What We’re Looking Towards This January at WBC — This weekend’s full moon, the first of 2023, was a “micro-moon.” While the days are getting longer (slowly) this month, the moon is further away from earth. I have a friend who calls this the “ January slump.” While some of us at WBC are prepping for the new semester…

January

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Wolf Moon: When Things Feel Far
Wolf Moon: When Things Feel Far
January

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Published in Wisdom Body Collective

·Mar 10, 2022

In Time All Things Burn

Winter Rituals A Flame — I just typed this line: in time all things burn. In a new adaptation of Bluebeard also known as the woman murderer, I’ve made Blu aka the man with the azul beard the fourth generation man to inherit coal land. …

Fire

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In Time All Things Burn
In Time All Things Burn
Fire

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Published in Wisdom Body Collective

·Dec 11, 2021

The Answer to Why Is in the Act

A Wisdom Body Collective Series on Artist Statements — Weeks ago, I launched our series on artist statements with a call to action — why artist statements are an important artifact of artistic communication. In reality, I’ve made very few public artistic statments. …

Artist Statement

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The Answer to Why Is in the Act
The Answer to Why Is in the Act
Artist Statement

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Published in Wisdom Body Collective

·Nov 15, 2021

in woman time is a gossamer wing

Poetry Sunday

Poetry Sunday

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in woman time is a gossamer wing
in woman time is a gossamer wing
Poetry Sunday

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in woman time is a gossamer wing

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Published in Wisdom Body Collective

·Nov 5, 2021

Artist Statement as Artifact

On writing artist statements, A Wisdom Body Series — In the summer of 2008, I enrolled in Writing for Artists at UCSC. Taught by Christina Waters, a local journalist whose name was (any likely still is) always a byline in the Goodtimes, we spent the summer writing and rewriting short statements about artwork. We watched Andy Goldsworthy’s Rivers and…

Artist Statement

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Artist Statement as Artifact
Artist Statement as Artifact
Artist Statement

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Published in Wisdom Body Collective

·Updated Mar 29, 2021

Paschal Moon

Worming our way into spring — The snow is melting, buds are blooming and after a devastating week for our hearts in Boulder, Wisdom Body Collective ushered in the Worm Moon tonight by finishing the layout for More Revolutionary Letters: A Tribute to Diane di Prima on Zoom. This week brought two surprise additions to our…

Call For Submissions

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Paschal Moon
Paschal Moon
Call For Submissions

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Published in Wisdom Body Collective

·Updated Mar 1, 2021

Creating a Chapbook Cover

A Wisdom Body Series on the origin of our first book. — They may say don’t judge a book by its cover, but we all know we still do, so what does a small woman-run artist collective dedicated to process and the tangibility of matter do when designing their first chapbook? Our first collective book More Revolutionary Letters, was born out of the collective loss of poet, woman, activist, and Jack Kerouac School founding member Diane di Prima last fall.

Diane Di Prima

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Creating a Chapbook Cover
Creating a Chapbook Cover
Diane Di Prima

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amy bobeda

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