Good morning!

I loved the quote that I posted yesterday morning so much that I wanted to recognize Lucretia Mott again today as a wonderful woman of the world in honor of Women’s History Month.

I discovered this gem on Wikipedia, and I wanted to share with all of you:

Lucretia Coffin Mott (January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was anAmerican Quaker, abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of women’s rights. She is credited as the first American “feminist” in the early 19th century but was, more accurately, the initiator of women’s political rights.Early life and education

James and Lucretia Mott

Lucretia Coffin was born into a Quaker family in Nantucket, Massachusetts. She was the second child of seven by Thomas Coffin and Anna Folger. At the age of thirteen, she was sent to the Nine Partners Quaker Boarding Schoolin what is now Millbrook, Dutchess County, New York, which was run by the Society of Friends. There she became a teacher after graduation. Her interest in women’s rights began when she discovered that male teachers at the school were paid four times more than the female staff.

Marriage and Family

On April 10, 1812, Lucretia Coffin married James Mott, another teacher at the Nine Partners Quaker School. They had six children. Their first child died at age five. They had numerous descendants, including some who migrated toTennessee.[citation needed]

Early anti-slavery efforts

Like many Quakers, Mott considered slavery an evil to be opposed. They refused to use cotton cloth, cane sugar, and other slavery-produced goods. In 1821 Mott became a Quaker minister. She began to speak publicly for the abolition cause, often traveling from her home in Philadelphia. Her sermons combined anti-slavery themes with broad calls for moral reform. Her husband supported her activism, and they often sheltered runaway slaves in their home. In 1833, they co-founded the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society.

By the 1830s, Mott was gaining considerable recognition as an abolitionist. It was about this time that she and her husband befriended William Lloyd Garrison. A lifelong friendship stemmed from their initial meeting. Mott and her husband became deeply involved in the national abolitionist circle. In December 1833, Garrison called a meeting to expand the New England Anti-Slavery Society. James Mott was a delegate at the Convention, but it was Lucretia Mott who made a lasting impression on attendees.

She tested the language of the Constitution and bolstered support when many delegates were precarious. Days after the conclusion of the Convention, at the urging of other delegates, Mott founded the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. The extensive participation of Blacks tightly bound the actions of the Society to the Philadelphia Black community. This female society was the first in which the voices of free Blacks were heard.[citation needed] Mott herself often preached at Black parishes.
Around this time, Mott’s sister-in-law, Abigail Lydia Mott, and brother-in-law,Lindley Murray Moore were helping to found the Rochester Anti-Slavery Society.

Amidst social persecution by abolition opponents and pain from dyspepsia, Mott continued her work for the abolitionist cause. She managed their household budget to extend hospitality to guests and still donate to charities. Mott was praised for her ability to maintain her household while contributing to the cause. In the words of one editor, “She is proof that it is possible for a woman to widen her sphere without deserting it.”[1]

Women’s political participation threatened social norms. Many members of the abolitionist movement opposed public activities by women, which were infrequent in those years. At the Congregational Church General Assembly, delegates agreed on a pastoral letter warning women that to lecture, directly defied St. Paul’s instruction for women to keep quiet in church.[citation needed] Other people opposed women’s preaching to mixed crowds of men and women, which they called “promiscuous.” Others were uncertain about what was proper, as the rising popularity of the Grimké sisters and other women speakers attracted support for abolition.

Mott was criticized for her leading role in the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, the same gathering that heard the powerful speaking of Angelina Grimké. Some opponents threw rotten produce at their doors. Others gathered as mobs and burned abolitionist books in protest. Mott attempted to include women in the movement by organizing fairs to raise awareness and revenue; many men regarded such activities as frivolous.[citation needed]

World Anti-Slavery Convention

In June 1840 Mott spoke at the International Anti-Slavery Convention inLondon, England. In spite of Mott’s status as one of six women delegates, before the conference began, the men voted to exclude women from participating. In addition, women delegates and attendees were required to sit in a segregated area out of sight of the men. The social mores of the time generally prohibited women’s participating in public political life. Several of the American men attending the convention, including William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, protested the women’s exclusion. They sat with the women in the segregated area.

Activists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her husband Henry B. Stanton attended the convention while on their honeymoon. Stanton became angry when she could not see Mott during her speech.

Mott was honored when given a throne-like chair from which she could properly view the proceedings. Delegates approached her in groups of two or three to become acquainted. One Irish reporter deemed her the “Lioness of the Convention”.[2] Mott was one of the few women included in the commemorative painting of the convention.[3] Other women included in the painting were all British activists: Elizabeth Pease, Amelia Opie, Baroness Byron, Mary Anne Rawson,Mrs John Beaumont, Elizabeth Tredgold and Mary Clarkson, daughter of Thomas Clarkson.

Encouraged by the recognition at the convention and active debates in England and Scotland, Mott also returned with new energy for the cause in the United States. She continued an active public lecture schedule, with destinations including the major Northern cities of New York and Boston, as well as travel over several weeks to slave-owning states, with speeches in Baltimore, Maryland and other cities, in Virginia. She arranged to meet with slave owners to discuss the morality of slavery. In the District of Columbia, Mott timed her lecture to coincide with the return of Congress from Christmas recess; more than 40 Congressmen attended. She had a personal audience with President John Tyler who, impressed with her speech, said, “I would like to hand Mr. Calhoun [a senator and abolition opponent] over to you.”[4]

Seneca Falls Convention

Mott and Stanton became well acquainted at the International Anti-Slavery Convention. Stanton later recalled: “We resolved to hold a convention as soon as we returned home, and form a society to advocate the rights of women.”[citation needed

However, it was not until 1848 that Mott and Stanton organized a women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York. Stanton noted the Seneca Falls Convention was the first public women’s rights meeting in the United States. Stanton’s resolution that it was “the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves the sacred right to the elective franchise” was passed against Mott’s opposition. Over the next few decades, women’s suffrage became the focus of the group’s campaigning. Mott signed the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments. While Stanton is usually credited as the leader of that effort, it was Mott’s mentoring of Stanton and their work together that organized the event. Mott’s sister, Martha Coffin Wright, also helped organize the convention and signed the declaration.

Opinions

Mott parted with the mainstream women’s movement in one area, that of divorce. At that time it was very difficult to obtain divorce, and fathers were given custody of children. Stanton sought to make divorce easier to obtain and to safeguard women’s access to and control of their children. The more conservative Mott opposed any significant legal change in divorce laws.

Mott’s theology was influenced by Unitarians including Theodore Parker and William Ellery Channing as well as early Quakers including William Penn. She thought that “the kingdom of God is within man” (1749) and was part of the group of religious liberals who formed the Free Religious Association in 1807, with Rabbi Wise, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Her theological position was particularly influential among Quakers, as in the future many harked back to her positions, sometimes without even knowing it.

American Equal Rights Association

Elected as the first president of the American Equal Rights Association after the end of the Civil War, Mott strove a few years later to reconcile the two factions that split over the priorities between woman suffrage and Black male suffrage. Ever the peacemaker, Mott tried to heal the breach between Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone over the immediate goal of the women’s movement: suffrage for freedmen and all women, or suffrage for freedmen first?

Writing

In 1850, Mott wrote Discourse on Woman, a book about restrictions on women in the United States. She became more widely known after this. When slavery was outlawed in 1865, she began to advocate giving Black Americans the right to vote. She remained a central figure in the women’s movement as a peacemaker, a critical function for that period of the movement, until her death at age 87 in 1880.

Swarthmore

In 1864 Mott and several other Hicksite Quakers incorporated Swarthmore Collegelocated near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which today remains one of the premierliberal-arts colleges in the United States [5].

Organizations

In 1866 Mott joined with Stanton, Anthony, and Stone to establish the American Equal Rights Association. She was a leading voice in the Universal Peace Union, also founded in 1866. The following year, the organization became active in Kansas where Negro suffrage and woman suffrage were to be decided by popular vote.

Death

Mott died on November 11, 1880 of pneumonia at her home, Roadside, in [[Cheltenham, Pennsylvania],]when she was 87. And was buried in the Quaker Fairhill Burial Ground in North Philadelphia. She is commemorated in a sculpture by Adelaide Johnson at the United States Capitol, unveiled in 1921. In 1983, she was posthumously (after death) inducted into the U.S. National Women’s Hall of Fame.

Descendant in like work

Her great-granddaughter, an American then living in Rome, Italy, was feministBetty Friedan’s interpreter there for a controversial speaking engagement.[6]

Biographical Excerpts

• Carl Schurz first met Mott in 1854. He described her in his autobiography published in 1906: Lucretia Mott, a woman, as I was told, renowned for her high character, her culture, and the zeal and ability with which she advocated various progressive movements. To her I had the good fortune to be introduced by a German friend. I thought her the most beautiful old lady I had ever seen. Her features were of exquisite fineness. Not one of the wrinkles with which age had marked her face, would one have wished away. Her dark eyes beamed with intelligence and benignity. She received me with gentle grace, and in the course of our conversation, she expressed the hope that, as a citizen, I would never be indifferent to the slavery question as, to her great grief, many people at the time seemed to be.

• Editorial, Time and Tide (9 July 1926): Beginning with Mary Wollstonecraft in the late 18th century, the feminist movement owed its next big impetus (in the eighteen forties and fifties) to Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony, of New England. It was Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth C. Stanton who organised the first Equal Rights Convention which was held in New York in 1848; and it was Lucretia Mott who laid down the definite proposition which American women are still struggling to implement today: ‘Men and Women shall have Equal Rights throughout the United States.’

AH: Considering I found this on Wikipedia, anything you can add here or adjust if necessary? And since biographies don’t usually get into the intimate personal details of life, and I hear Ms. Mott was quite the looker..anything salacious you can tell us about her? :) Do tell. Thanks. I HOPE you three are enjoying yourselves.

PEACE OUT. HAPPY SATURDAY EVERYONE!

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Good morning!

Although Women’s History Month is half over, it isn’t over yet. What have you done, if anything, to celebrate, to learn more, to inspire? Me, I signed up to receive daily e-mails to learn more about women’s history from A-Z.

So…even though there is only two weeks left, it doesn’t mean you can’t start celebrating now. It also doesn’t mean that at the end of March we stop celebrating, or we stop reading, or we stop inspiring others to continue to learn about women…what we have accomplished historically, and what we are doing currently to create history.

Here are a dozen ways to celebrate women…some ideas on how you can honor women’s history today. And hey, perhaps you’ll be so inspired by one of these that it will become something you continually do, to help keep women in the forefront of everyone’s minds year round:

Readers: And if none of these on the above list turn you on, although I can’t imagine not one would, think of something that does, and do it. Perhaps you need a little inspiration to get you motivated. When I do, I usually look toward one of my favorite inspirational icons. In your life, it could be a friend, someone famous, or anyone in between, that you respect and admire.

Since everyone is familiar with our president, and I think most of us will agree, President Obama is one of the most inspirational speakers, I am posting the Presidential Proclamation of Women’s History Month to inspire you to take some sort of action in support of women…this month and always:

During Women’s History Month, we reflect on the extraordinary accomplishments of women and honor their role in shaping the course of our Nation’s history. Today, women have reached heights their mothers and grandmothers might only have imagined. Women now comprise nearly half of our workforce and the majority of students in our colleges and universities. They scale the skies as astronauts, expand our economy as entrepreneurs and business leaders, and serve our country at the highest levels of government and our Armed Forces. In honor of the pioneering women who came before us, and in recognition of those who will come after us, this month, we recommit to erasing the remaining inequities facing women in our day.

This year, we commemorate the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, a global celebration of the economic, political, and social achievements of women past, present, and future. International Women’s Day is a chance to pay tribute to ordinary women throughout the world and is rooted in women’s centuries-old struggle to participate in society on an equal footing with men. This day reminds us that, while enormous progress has been made, there is still work to be done before women achieve true parity.

My Administration has elevated the rights of women and girls abroad as a critical aspect of our foreign and national security policy. Empowering women across the globe is not simply the right thing to do, it is also smart foreign policy. This knowledge is reflected in the National Security Strategy of the United States, which recognizes that countries are more peaceful and prosperous when their female citizens enjoy equal rights, equal voices, and equal opportunities. Today, we are integrating a focus on women and girls in all our diplomatic efforts, and incorporating gender considerations in every aspect of our development assistance. We are working to build the participation of women into all aspects of conflict prevention and resolution, and we are continuing to lead in combating the scourge of conflict related sexual violence, both bilaterally and at the United Nations.

In America, we must lead by example in protecting women’s rights and supporting their empowerment. Despite our progress, too many women continue to be paid less than male workers, and women are significantly underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. By tapping into the potential and talents of all our citizens, we can utilize an enormous source of economic growth and prosperity. The White House Council on Women and Girls has continued to remove obstacles to achievement by addressing the rate of violence against women, supporting female entrepreneurs, and prioritizing the economic security of women. American families depend largely on the financial stability of women, and my Administration continues to prioritize policies that promote workplace flexibility, access to affordable, quality health care and child care, support for family caregivers, and the enforcement of equal pay laws. I have also called on every agency in the Federal Government to be part of the solution to ending violence against women, and they have responded with unprecedented cooperation to protect victims of domestic and sexual violence and enable survivors to break the cycle of abuse.

As we reflect on the triumphs of the past, we must also look to the limitless potential that lies ahead. To win the future, we must equip the young women of today with the knowledge, skills, and equal access to reach for the promise of tomorrow. My Administration is making unprecedented investments in education and is working to expand opportunities for women and girls in the STEM fields critical for growth in the 21st century economy.

As we prepare to write the next chapter of women’s history, let us resolve to build on the progress won by the trailblazers of the past. We must carry forward the work of the women who came before us and ensure our daughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles to their achievements, and no remaining ceilings to shatter.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 2011 as Women’s History Month. I call upon all Americans to observe this month and to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8, 2011 with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities that honor the history, accomplishments, and contributions of American women. I also invite all Americans to visit www.WomensHistoryMonth.gov to learn more about the generations of women who have shaped our history.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord two thousand eleven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-fifth.

I don’t know about you, but I’m inspired.

Ideas? Thoughts? Blog me.

Carrie: Great article. Malcolm: This was definitely important to repost. Thanks.

Azumi: I have asked that same question, and I don’t know. I believe like Hitomi, that this happened for a reason, as terrible as it is. And if it didn’t happen now it would’ve happened sooner or later, and perhaps more deaths would’ve occurred in Japan and other countries. Perhaps now, we, the entire world, will look at nuclear energy in a different light and make some serious and strong changes before something else major happens somewhere else in this world.

I’ll leave it at that for now.

Peace out.

Oh…PS – don’t forget to check the Super Moon tonight! It should be spectacular!

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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michelle

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Good morning!

Women’s History Month is celebrated every year in the United States in March.  Like Black History Month, many of us question, “Why only a month?”. Women should be honored and revered every day. And not just in the U.S. but throughout the entire world.

I try to do that here as often as I can. Bring women to the forefront of our minds, whether it be the wonderful women in the world that touch our lives, or to enlighten the out of touch, with respect to the plight of women on our planet.

Which is so much of the reason why I blog about women in a variety of ways. To celebrate them in their strength and support, their love and loyalty …and to reveal them in their most vulnerable states, so that those who would rather turn their heads and look the other way, are confronted with the realities that women face and endure on a daily basis, and will HOPEfully be inspired to do something.

I began this month last Saturday honoring the Princess, whoever and where ever She may be. And what better way to honor women, but to honor the Princess, who is the life source to all that we know.

Today I will recognize the women of Guam.

This is for you Anna, Lea and all of the girls in Guam: I HOPE the annual art show this year is a tremendous success for the women of Guam.

Women of art: 6th annual art show celebrates Women’s History Month

Women unite this week to celebrate femininity. Handmade dolls, twisted pots and abstract paintings adorn the Infiniti Art Gallery in its biggest weeklong event of the year — the 6th annual Women’s Art Show. This year’s theme is “The Women of Guam.”

The show started six years ago as a way to help women in the community and celebrate Women’s History Month. The event was so successful it became an annual event, says Ron Castro, marketing manager of Nissan Motor Corporation in Guam.

Georgette Conception of the Soroptimist International of Guam says this is the perfect opportunity to celebrate women in the arts.

“Our group is all about promoting women’s best interests, and that’s why we’re apart of the art show,” Conception says.

The show opened Friday night in the 4,000-square-foot gallery, and will continue until Friday.

“This is really a special event. More than 300 people always attend the opening night party,” Castro says.

Much of the art will be available for purchase.

What’s new

This year the exhibit holds artwork of every medium by professionals and hobbyists.

“The female artists gather and support each other. No one’s art is better. We all just have different styles. I’m known for my crooked paintings and that’s just my style,” says artist Mary Camacho.

This year will have some veterans in the art community as well as fresh faces.

“There are a lot of new artists this year, which is exciting. And artists who have participated before will be showing new work,” Castro says.

For Camacho, the show symbolizes how far women have come in society.

“For the longest time, there was a stigma that women were limited in our abilities. Reality is we’re just as good and great as anybody, and this art show proves that,” Camacho says.

She’s also proven that through her art and more than 20 years with the U.S. Army.

This is her fourth year exhibiting in the show, this time displaying her “Coco posts,” postcards made from coconut.

“I like to utilize what’s available on island. It helps promote the local culture, and since it’s also Chamorro Month it all just fits together,” she says.

Her specialties also include wood carving.

Girl power

The leap: This painting of the two lovers’ leap is one of many being showcased during the sixth annual Women’s Art Show at Nissan Infinity showroom. This year’s theme is “The Women of Guam.” / Photos by Jesse Castro/For Pacific Sunday News

Various nonprofit groups also are participating, including female youth organization Island Girl Power. The art show is the perfect opportunity to showcase the group and what it does, empower young women.

“We participate because it’s important for our young ladies to be aware and observe Women’s History Month,” says Program Director Juanita Blaz.

The organization’s contribution is always a group project by girls in the program. This year it will be a poetic collage.

“Some of the girls partnered up to create a poem. Each young girl wrote a poem about one of the other girls. Then they grouped them together to be displayed as a whole,” Blaz says.

The project is unique, promoting empowerment. The girls were inspired to look at the positive aspects of each other when writing their poems.

“It deters them from being negative and teaches them to think that way in everyday life,” Blaz says.

“Women are not the minority. We are just as capable, that’s why it’s rather important for women to both participate in the show and attend the show,” Camacho says.

Being surrounded by strong females at the art show also gives the girls a taste of life as a strong adult woman.

“They get to meet the other artists, some who are professionals, and they connect with these women that become role models to them,” Blaz says.

Display: The sixth annual Women’s Art Show will feature artwork from female artists around the island using an assortment of different mediums for their work. / Photos by Jesse Castro/For Pacific Sunday News

IF YOU GO

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Jng:  I would never for a moment think that the activities of Roi or the TAO towards the cattle on this planet would carry any weight with you. I was speaking of his assistance to help other beings (those below the surface and from other planets/galaxies) He is one who stands alone and yet risks his life for others when they odds are against him.

Thinking logically, if Roi would risk his life for others why would he not risk his life to find the Princess, knowing the She is the answer to the continuation of the Universe? Why would Roi or the TAO attempt to deceive you or anyone for that matter, when it is in their best interest as well to find the whereabouts of the Princess?

I am aware that an anomaly is happening in the Universe, and no one knows the cause. Natural laws that have been taken for granted or proven to the useful tools of calculation or analysis have broken down. Perhaps because the Universe is in a state of flux currently, the luck in finding the Princess is putting many on edge, and you are just looking to each other for reason that She can not be found.

Perhaps you are just looking for someone to blame. And since Roi has been here on Earth, he is the one you choose to blame. I can see from your comments and your response to me that you are so self-involved, you can hear nothing but your own reasoning. Still…I’m going to try, and HOPE that you come to your senses and release him.

Ghadah: Thank you for writing in for Konduz. I don’t know what will happen. There is so much destruction going on there right now. Be strong, stay safe, and follow Madaline’s advice.

Hi Al: I too an concerned for the women in the Middle East. Between what is happening here and the flux of the Universe, we are certainly at a stage of random chaos. I HOPE you are well.

W63453e: Thank you for answering my question. A very different meaning than what was noted on the website. I like the true meaning and symbolism much better that you shared.  I enjoyed the visual you gave of “wet skis in the clouds” although I somehow doubt my vision is anything like the actual. Nice to hear from you.

Peace out.

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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Good morning!

The Art Of Choosing

I found this very interesting talk on choice that I thought would be so appropriate today.

Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices, and how we feel about the choices we make. She talks about both trivial choices (Coke v. Pepsi) and profound ones, and shares her groundbreaking research that has uncovered some surprising attitudes about our decisions.

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Sheena Iyengar looks deeply at choosing and has discovered many surprising things about it. Iyengar’s research has been informing business and consumer-goods marketing since the 1990s. Her ingenious experiments have provided rich material for Malcolm Gladwell and other pop chroniclers of business and the human psyche.

One area that Iyengar speaks about is the difference between how white Americans make choices compared to Asian Americans. How in one study with children, whites tended to make choices based on their own singular needs, where the Asians made choices with the collective in mind. I found this so very interesting. Iyengar explains it much better in her talk – a talk well worth listening to this morning.

Readers: Would our world change if we made choices with others in mind besides ourselves? – no brainer – Of course it would.

Ah…but can we still be true to ourselves and yet keep others in mind when we make choices that will have an affect on others? I think that is so much of the problem in this country. So many are only thinking of themselves when their actions of choice affect so many.

Is unlimited choice good for us? Does it give us the success, happiness, and freedom that we expect from it?

We have lots of choices in this world and we all know in our heart what the right choices are. All one has to do is put greed and racism aside, and the right choice will be the one that is left.

Just a few things to think about. Answers? Other questions? Blog me.

And if you want more information on my choice for Wonderful Women of The World today, Sheena Iyengar, check out Iyengar’s website.

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Good morning!

I just discovered this poet: Suheir Hammad. She performs two spine-tingling spoken-word pieces: “What I Will” and “break (clustered)” — meditations on war and peace, on women and power.

In her poems and plays, Suheir Hammad blends the stories and sounds of her Palestinian-American heritage with the vibrant language of Brooklyn to create a passionately modern voice.

Suheir Hammad is the author of breaking poems, recipient of a 2009 American Book Award and the Arab American Book award for Poetry 2009. Her other books are ZaatarDiva; Born Palestinian, Born Black; and Drops of This Story. Her work has been widely anthologized and also adapted for theater.

Her produced plays include Blood Trinity and breaking letter(s), and she wrote the libretto for the multimedia performance Re-Orientalism. An original writer and performer in the Tony-winning Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, Suheir appears in the 2008 Cannes Film Festival Official SelectionSalt of This Sea. She is the Artist in Residency at the NYU’s APA Institute for 2010.

“In these poems, it’s no longer necessary to speak in argument convincing sentences; the fact of her being, speaking, the fact of her family’s, her communities’, the fact of women surviving in Palestine, in Iraq, in New Orleans, is argument enough.”

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Readers: I am speechless. As one commentator wrote, “If this does not move you, check your pulse.”

Well…are you moved? Blog me. Tell me your thoughts. How did her poetry make you feel?

Peace & Love, “Live it, Give it”

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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michelle

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