Tag: Jill Salahub
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Women's History Month: Lucretia Mott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone
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Read More: Women's History Month: Lucretia Mott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy StoneEarlier this month, we featured Sojourner Truth, an abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Today we are featuring a few other early women involved in similar issues: Lucretia Mott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone. Lucretia Mott was an American Quaker, abolitionist, a women’s rights activist, and a social…
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Women's History Month: Roxane Gay
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Read More: Women's History Month: Roxane Gay~from Communications Coordinator Jill Salahub Disclaimer: I’m completely obsessed with Roxane Gay right now. I finally started Bad Feminist recently, which I’d been wanting to read ever since that time a few years ago at a department picnic when I asked Antero Garcia (who at the time was a CSU English department…
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Women's History Month: Temple Grandin
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Read More: Women's History Month: Temple GrandinEven though she didn’t learn to speak until she was 3.5 years old, Temple Grandin is the author of six books, including the national bestsellers Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism and Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior. She is a professor of Animal…
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Women's History Month: S.E. Hinton
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Read More: Women's History Month: S.E. Hinton50 years ago, a 16 year old from Oklahoma named Susan Eloise Hinton published her first book. She’d started writing it when she was 14, and it became the best selling young adult novel of all time. I began writing in grade school, eager to make my own stories happen…
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Women's History Month: Adrienne Rich
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Read More: Women's History Month: Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich was a poet, non-fiction writer, essayist, and feminist, credited with bringing “the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse.” Rich was encouraged especially by her father to read and write poetry. Her first collection of poetry, A Change of World, published during her last year as an…
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Women's History Month: Amy Krouse Rosenthal
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Read More: Women's History Month: Amy Krouse RosenthalIf you have young children who love to read, you may already know Amy Krouse Rosenthal, maybe without even realizing it — she’s a best selling author of over 30 award-winning books beloved by children, including “Duck! Rabbit!,” “Spoon,” “Yes Day!,” “Little Pea,” and “The Wonder Book,” (see a full…
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Student Spotlight: Dakota Lewis
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Read More: Student Spotlight: Dakota LewisDakota Lewis BA English: Writing Concentration BS Business Administration: Marketing and Computer Information Systems Concentrations What inspired you to get a degree in English? My mom has a degree in English herself and taught it for a while, and my dad is a published writer. They instilled in my sister…
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Women's History Month: Edith Wharton
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Read More: Women's History Month: Edith WhartonEdith Wharton may not have published her first novel until she was 40 years old, but she was a prolific writer who actually began writing poetry and fiction as a young girl, even writing a novella at age eleven. Publishing was seen as something women, especially those of her class, didn’t do (their…
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Women's History Month: International Women's Day
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Read More: Women's History Month: International Women's Day“The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.” ~Gloria Steinem International Women’s Day commemorates the movement for women’s rights, and was originally called International Working Women’s Day. The earliest…
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Women's History Month: Sojourner Truth
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Read More: Women's History Month: Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth was an abolitionist and women’s rights activist born into slavery, originally named Isabella Baumfree. At eleven years old, after the death of her original owner and then his son, she was separated from her family, and sold at an auction with a flock of sheep for $100. Sold two more times…