Exhibit D: Lipstick and rifles--Ukrainian women at the base of the fight

Exhibit D: Lipstick and rifles Ukrainian women

Join me March 2, 2020 on the podcast Presenting Evidence that God Still Loves Women and Writers for this wide ranging conversation with Olha Onyshko, a filmmaker born in the Soviet Union who documents the work of women in Ukraine’s struggle to establish and maintain their fragile independence. After watching seamstresses who worked at a Ukrainian opera house make bulletproof vests from scrap metal and grandmothers standing against the Russian back army in Maidan, Onyshko maintains that women have the power to transform the world.  Find out more about her film, Women of Maidan. Women of Maidan

featuring music by Talitha Gabrielle

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Onyshko selected three very different picks for Opening Paragraph:  Jaden Rose Phoenix’s Beyond Human, A.K. Shevchenko’s The Game, and James Ragan’s Womb-Weary.   Beyond Human The Game Womb Weary.

Exhibit C: The beauty of chunky blankets

Exhibit C: The beauty of chunky blankets

My grandmother spent the latter years of her life making quilts and blankets for those she loved. Perhaps that is why I find myself making blankets for my loved ones now.  My favorite are made with really fat yarn–perhaps because I don’t have the patience required to use regular sized wool or perhaps because the fat yarn feels so luscious! 

I remember a childhood friend of my mothers said at my grandmother’s funeral, that my grandmother covered us all with her love. The quilts and blankets had become a metaphor and a signature. I still have one of her blankets on my bed and several more in closets.

Join the podcast Presenting Evidence that God Still Loves Women and Writers on February 24, 2020 for Exhibit C. And for this episode’s Opening Paragraph, Prince reads from her own work–“Empty Vessel”.

Exhibit B: Talking food and family with Sufiya Abdur-Rahman

Join us February 17, 2020 as my guest, Sufiya Abdur-Rahman talks about food and family. She writes creative nonfiction. Her work has appeared in publications including Catapult, The Washington Post, Washington City Paper, Bull Men’s Fiction, The Source, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and NPR. Her writing investigates questions of family, identity, race, and religion and, often, how they intersect. You can find her work here: herehttps://medium.com/@sufiyaabdurrahman.  

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We close the exhibit today with Abdur-Rahman sharing her pick for Opening Paragraph–Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns. The Warmth of Other Suns

featuring music by Talitha Gabrielle

Exhibit A: Old photo albums

Join me for the first episode of the new podcast: Presenting Evidence that God Still Loves Women and Writers. Sit with me as I ponder over what to do with mounds of old photos.  

And listen to the Opening Paragraph of “Careless,” a tender story of a marriage at the brink, from Kerry Neville’s collection Remember to Forget Me. Remember to Forget Me

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featuring music by Talitha Gabrielle