I’ve always been a fan of the ballet. I remember reading a New Yorker piece about Misty Copeland three years ago which explored her past, her present and her indisputable mark on the ballet industry. Considered a prodigy, Copeland did not discover dance until she was 13. This is about 10 years too late, a […]
There’s a certain stigma to women of the 1900’s. We assume them to be reserved, polite and above all, anonymous. As we’ve learned from George Elliot, Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Bronte, while they may have published under fake names, they were anything but reserved. We don’t know as many famous women from the 1900s as […]
I believe, you see, in the dream…. There’s a lot to say about Diana Vreeland. As the former editor-in-chief of Vogue from 1963 until 1971, founder of the Met Costume Ball and style icon, she changed the idea of not just fashion, but individuality. With nothing but a dream, she rose to prominence without formal education […]
Martha Gellhorn was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist, who is now considered one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century. She reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career. Gellhorn was also the third wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway, from 1940 to 1945. At […]
On Friday, February 10th we will experience a Lunar Eclipse in conjunction with the Full Moon in Leo. The Full Moon of February is also called the Snow Moon. Full Moon Lunar Eclipses are intense and bring change. They force us to burn what no longer serves us in preparation for what is to come, […]
Hilda Terry was a cartoonist mostly known for ‘Teena’, a comic strip about a teenage girl that ran for 20 years in American newspapers. She was the first woman allowed to join the National Cartoonists Society in 1950 and became a pioneer in early computer animation. Born in 1914, Terry was raised in Newburyport, Massachusetts. She […]
The word feminism pops up a lot: we’ve heard about it on ‘Broad City’ and ‘Master of None’, read about it in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘We Should All Be Feminists’ and obviously listened to Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’. For better or worse, pop culture cashes in on feminism; regardless of that, the movement has gained important political […]
There’s no one way to be an artist. There’s no one type of artist. And there’s definitely no one who is going to come and declare you an artist. For many, following an artistic pursuit means abandoning many of the pursuits deemed necessary by society. It means following your own path, a path filled with […]