She wrote lusty work about her life. She also started what may have been America’s first feminist press, Shameless Hussy, in her garage. By Penelope Green Shameless Hussy Press was a shoestring ...

When Lizzo took the stage earlier this month to accept the Grammy for record of the year, not only was she the first Black woman to win the award since Whitney Houston in 1994, but she also was one of ...

EMILY HELLER CRUSHED IT at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival this year—in a comic-on-comic stand-up battle, she bested the likes of Guy Branum and Dana Gould, earning the coveted* title of Iron Comic at ...

“I know I was lookin’ good, I had my Kenneth Cole shoes on/ My Gianni Versace blue leather suit/ My nails were done and my hair was fierce.” These words open up the 1984 hit song “The Men All Pause” ...

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A self-described Black lesbian mother warrior poet, Audre Lorde lived a life of possibility. To her readers, colleagues, and admirers, she offered a radical and liberating vision of the world in her ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been reflecting on the nature of inspiration as of late. The author is releasing a companion piece to her 2014 book We Should All Be Feminists — a guided journal bearing ...

Diane di Prima, a poet and writer who was regarded as the most significant female member of the Beat Generation, the male-dominated countercultural movement of the 1950s to which she lent her feminist ...

A depiction of a lesbian couple engaging in intimacy. In the latest installment of the Rainbow Center’s “Out to Lunch” series, queer Black femme feminist poet M. Mick Powell gave a powerful ...

My daring pen, will bolder sallies make, and like my self, an uncheck’d freedom take.” The writer of those words did her best ...

Carol Rumens, who has died aged 81, was a poet whose practice and teaching did much to promote the importance of the art form ...