Matrona’lia and More What a great way to start off Women’s History Month! We will be celebrating the stories of regular women all month long. Be sure to stop back often to check out features about shared with us from around the globe about women who inspired us and changed the world one person at […]
Why Her Story?
There is a reason I use the word history, and not herstory, as might be predicted by my role as a feminist. I grew up in a time and in circumstances where I could not grow to be anything but a self-declared feminist. However, in many ways I am a traditionalist, though a quite progressive one. I love change, […]
The Nature of the Thing
I created this altered image from an image I found on Pixabay.com by deysanz. I added special effects and text (my own words) and watermarked the image with the url of this site using the free version of graphic editing software at picmonkey.com. For too many decades I saved things from long ago, we do it not because the […]
Tucson, Five Years On
Lives changed as lives were lost five years ago today when Tucson changed forever. It was not the first time Tucson opened her arms and gathered survivors of mass gun violence to her breast to hold and heal families in her embrace. October 29th 2002 Robin E. Rogers, Barbara Monroe, and Cheryl McGaffic, all instructors in the U of […]
Violence as Tantrum
More senseless violence: Paris, Colorado Springs, San Bernardino. I live in Tucson and know victims of “our” mass shooting. I respond to incidents of violence personally and viscerally. What’s a woman to do? Plenty. Women can collectively and actively change everything. The Women’s Legacy Project is not a political site. But women’s very essence is political in […]
Travel Amid The Fearful
This past week of Thanksgiving and multi-legged travel across the country to see grandchildren during heightened fear and security levels was enlightening for me in so many ways. Not the least of these ways was that 5 year old twin girls with Thanksgiving birthdays are wonderful bundles of joy and non-stop energies of all sorts. […]