You knew this was coming, didn’t you? I want to make sure that if you are reading this, and are a woman of any sort, that you know you are an Iconic Woman, and that you are iconically feminine. You have control over this. Words are powerful and whatever you see yourself as, whatever you […]
Iconic A: Audre Lorde and Audrey Hepburn
The depth and breadth of Iconic Femininity is perfectly illustrated by the letter A. Audre Lorde and Audrey Hepburn lived impressive lives and both became icons what it is to be a woman. Neither were women with which to trifle. Audrey Hepburn As a youth in the Netherlands in World War II Audrey Hepburn developed […]
Anonymous No Longer Needs To Be a Woman
Virginia Woolf wrote in the early 20th Century For most of history, anonymous was a woman. It seems fitting to start out a month of 26 posts, from A to Z, and centered on the topic of The Iconic Feminine with a look at feminine anonymity. This exercise is prompted by the annual April A […]
The I of Legacy Tools – Identity and Indices
is for Indexes of Identity in the A to Z of Tools for Legacy Indexes or Indices? I am old-fashioned I guess. I used the word indices when talking about more than one index. Indexes was not accepted as a legitimate a word when I was in school. No matter how you spell […]
Names and Naming
Names are powerful. Most of us know that some cultures view personal names as so powerful that they are shared only with the closest immediate family members. But many things have names. A linguistics course taken long, long ago taught me about markedness, about marked and unmarked terms. In these oppositional pairs one term is […]
My BlogHer Retrospective: The Early Experience
This year the BlogHer Conference, that is being billed as a “Selfiebration,” returns to the place it all began 10 years ago in San Jose – Silicon Valley. So between now and the start of the conference I will be posting about various aspects of my journey with BlogHer since I joined the […]