by Renée Knapp | Mar 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
From our earliest feminist sisters, such as Rosa Luxemburg, an anti-war activist, philosopher and economist, and Clara Zetkin who fought for women’s suffrage and to establish a day for us all, “International Women’s Day;” to the ones who wrestled over many decades to...
by Renée Knapp | Mar 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
photo credit: Melanie Gordon Photography In her memoir, A Good Wife. Escaping the Life I Never Chose, Samra Zafar explores the roots of her abusive arranged marriage and her courageous breakaway from the confinement imposed on her. Samra Zafar, a woman of Pakistani...
by Renée Knapp | Mar 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Photo credit: Mark Haddock My friend J.S. Porter and I recently published a multi-genre volume of reflections titled Superabundantly Alive: Thomas Merton’s Dance with the Feminine (Wood Lake, 2018).* We feel that Thomas Merton and other contemplatives of mystical...
by Renée Knapp | Feb 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
The discipline of Psychology teaches us that Blind Obedience is a behaviour whereby people do as they are told without thinking for themselves on whether what they hear is true or whether they should obey orders. In combat, soldiers are trained to follow orders...
by inannaadmin | Feb 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
The world was a very different place in 1931 – a time of high ceilings and lace curtains, a time when women were expected to be subservient to their husbands. It was also the year the Empire State Building would be completed, making it the tallest building in the...
by Renée Knapp | Jan 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
When the late, great writer and poet, David W. McFadden, won the 2014 Giller Prize for Excellence in Poetry for What’s the Score? (Mansfield, 2013), my first poetry manuscript was still out in left field without a literary home. “David,” I asked, “what advice can you...
by inannaadmin | Jan 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
Photo credit: Hoda Ghods Prologue After I saw an article, Seven Hours in Tehran, published in American Libraries in early April each re-reading of it saddened me more than before. The author, Leonard Kniffel, reports how his invitation to the...
by inannaadmin | Oct 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Are we devoted to voting because we think it is our responsibility? Or with our hard-won democracy do we feel obligated to sustain it? Yet how is that helping our unstable economies, or addressing the ever-increasing natural disasters? Our daily lives are in one way...
by inannaadmin | Jun 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Sally Rooney, Ireland’s newest literary sensation, is widely regarded as the first great millennial novelist for her stories of love in the era of late capitalism. Born in 1991, Rooney is often called the voice of her generation, the J.D. Salinger of the Snapchat...
by inannaadmin | Jun 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
If we care enough to know what is happening in our world by following our daily news and examining different sources, we witness, and we learn: Africa is burning; Iraq is shattered; Syria is bleeding; uprisings and oppressions here and there in different parts of our...
