Iris: A Journal About Women articles from September 2002

Iris: A Journal About Women archives from September 2002

Editor's letter.(Editorial)
September 22, 2002... Activist. Feminist. Diverse. Honest. These are the buzz words we have used to describe iris for the last six months as it has transitioned into a magazine for young women who want to make a difference in the world around them. "Emerging...

Cool women to watch for: Sylvia Terry. (Iris Profile).(dean of University of Virginia )
September 22, 2002... Commitment, dedication, unconditional support and integrity are just a few of the qualities that make Dean Sylvia Terry a woman of action. As the Associate Dean of the Office of African American Affairs at the University of Virginia, Dean...

Christmas break.(Short Story)
September 22, 2002... After my mother was committed, my father took my sister and me to New York City. We left dirty dishes in the sink, dirty laundry on the closet floors. I worried about the cats scruffing around in the filthy litter box. We checked in at the...

Women of Vision and Action (WOVA). (Fuel Your Involvement).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Women of Vision and Action (WOVA) is a network of established and emerging women leaders who share the same beliefs. Their purpose is "to provide a network that supports and connects emerging and established women leaders...for creating...

Sisterhood is Global Institute (SIGI). (Fuel Your Involvement).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Sisterhood is Global Institute (SIGI) seeks to deepen the understanding of women's rights at the local, regional, national, and global levels, and to strengthen the capacity of women to exercise these rights. Founded in 1984, SIGI was born of...

www.feminist.com? (Fuel Your Involvement).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Looking for a great place to start your quest for feminism? How about stopping by http://www.feminist.com? With many inspiring quotes, endless links and resources, as well as articles and speeches, www.feminist.com is a great starting point to...

WOW--Women Online Worldwide. (Fuel Your Involvement).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... WOW--Women Online Worldwide is a great site for discussing women's issues in a global context. You can enter chat rooms, view their magazine Tapestry, read up on a message board--or even send a friendly e-card. By visiting...

Voices of Women--Journal and Resource Guide. (Fuel Your Involvement).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Voices of Women--Journal and Resource Guide provides women from all over the country access to businesses that are "women friendly." Voices of Women provides an extensive list of businesses and resources that women need every day. With over 300...

Webgrrls International. (Fuel Your Involvement).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Are you a woman making strides in the media? Well, Webgrrls International is a great organization for you to check our. Webgrrls International provides a forum for women in, or interested in, new media and technology to network, exchange job...

WomenGamers.com. (Fuel Your Involvement).(woman-centered video game forum)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Like to play computer games, but want to see more positive female lead characters? WomenGamers.com provides the latest press releases on game and product reviews, answers technology-related inquiries, and features gender-related articles on a...

Women's Institute for Financial Freedom (WIFE). (Fuel Your Involvement).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Women's Institute for Financial Freedom (WIFE) is a nonprofit organization that provides financial information for women of all ages and circumstances. The site has resources on investing and saving, retirement, budget and planning, and taxes....

Feminist Women's Health Center (FWHC). (Fuel Your Involvement).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Feminist Women's Health Center (FWHC) is an all-encompassing site for women who want to be more informed about their bodies and reproductive systems. The "Personal Stories section serves as an outlet for women who have been through traumatic...

A Women's World: Women in Politics. (Fuel Your Involvement).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... A Woman's World: Women in Politics is a 30-minute documentary that chronicles how women have shaped politics in the U.S., how they benefit directly from women in positions of power, and that urges young women to participate in public office....

The Women's Sports Foundation. (Fuel Your Involvement).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... The Women's Sports Foundation was founded in 1974 by Billie Jean King to provide girls and women with equal opportunities to participate in sports and fitness activities. The site features information on over 100 physical fitness activities...

JourneyWoman. (Fuel Your Involvement).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... JourneyWoman is an online travel guide for women who are not afraid to trek across unknown territory by themselves. It features gal-friendly city sites, travel tips, and even love stories from women who have experienced the exhilaration of solo...

Why chicks dig vampires: sex blood, and Buffy.(Buffy the Vampire Slayer)(girl-power in mass media)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2002... Nowadays, powerful girls are everywhere on television and in the movies, even in genres previously populated only by men, especially action, science-fiction, and fantasy. Buffy Summers, the protagonist of television's Buffy the Vampire Slayer...

Voices of Our Own: Mothers, Daughters, and Elders of the Tenderloin Tell Their Stories.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... By Nancy Deutsch Author Nancy Deutsch describes the Tenderloin as "a neighborhood with the highest concentration of poverty in San Francisco--a neighborhood struggling with prostitution, drug addiction, and poverty, yet also a neighborhood...

Across the Pond.(Poem)
September 22, 2002... Across the pond I have gone across the pond, whatever it is, on the lumbering Staten Island ferry. We move slowly in this turtlebacked anachronism. I am not wowed, but thank you for the wind, miscellaneous, if indeed it...

Ride Down.(Poem)
September 22, 2002... Ride down. The ride down he drank anisette, zagging His beeper, the black Caddie Those ringlets at the back of his skull How he looked nude, chopping wood The mystery of the van, trashed deep in the woods How she had been a drug...

Trail guide.(Short Story)
September 22, 2002... This is southeastern Utah, BLM land. There's no real trail through this canyon, just the wash, the canyons narrow cleft. Fresh cowpats underfoot--who knew cows were such intrepid canyoneers? These must be part mountain goat, negotiating ledges,...

Been there done that: intergenerational perspectives.
September 22, 2002... Reflecting on their undergraduate and graduate experiences, University of Virginia professors examine the progress and remaining challenges of their academic progeny. Today UVa is ranked as the #2 public university in the nation. Its...

Representing "comfort women": activism through law & art.
September 22, 2002... Before and during World War II, some 200,000 Asian women were used by the Japanese government as sexual slaves for the Imperial Army and euphemistically called "comfort women. Since the early 1990s, the struggles of the few aging survivors of...

Interview with Isabella Bannerman.(Interview)
September 22, 2002... Opening a newspaper to the Comics page, you are unlikely to find more than two or three strips drawn by women. If you are lucky, however, you will find Six Chix, an innovative nationally syndicated cartoon launched in January 2000, created by...

Take a Bite.(Poem)
September 22, 2002... Take a bite. something that won't rub off if you should wish to take it in your hands--Jorie Graham Always the little bit of whether it's real or if I want it too hard like a lover's look like understanding quantum...

Interview with Jane Miller.(Interview)
September 22, 2002... Jane Miller is the Senior Associate Director of Athletics and the senior woman administrator at the University of Virginia, a position she has held since October 1995. Miller began her career at Virginia in 1983, as both head field hockey and...

What Now?(Poem)
September 22, 2002... What now? In the bathroom mirror, I look like someone's grandmother, white hair, round glasses, square face, a smile. I think of saying let's have cup of tea. One grandmother loved me. I wear her hands. I play with my veins as I...

Women and the military.(sex discrimination)
September 22, 2002... An introduction... In many ways, the military is the last bastion of manhood. It is a male-defined space where throngs of men (and women) are prepared to fight tooth and nail to maintain its masculine nature. Individual women working in...

Interview with Awiakra.(Interview)
September 22, 2002... Born under the stars of Tennessee, poet, essayist, and activist Awiakra (as she prefers to be called) had a childhood suffused in the glow and shadow of the nearby Oak Ridge atomic research facility. Her writing traces the subtle patterns of a...

Hanging with Juliette.(Short Story)
September 22, 2002... It is four o'clock, and the leaves from the trees in Morningside Park are falling in assorted piles of browns and yellows atop empty crack vials, beer cans, and cigarette lighters. Morningside Park is the great divide. The green spaces from...

Next Door.(Poem)
September 22, 2002... Next door. It would be late, 10 or 11, and there'd by a thin wail licking through the open window like a tongue of flame that would be the baby waking, needing I suppose to be fed, and I'd put down my book for a second and lift...

Reasonable person: A feminist goes to law school.
September 22, 2002... But like a substantial number of politically committed people pursuing graduate English studies, I found myself increasingly frustrated by the often attenuated relation between scholarly work and social justice. As my partner went through law...

Ladies' Holiday.(Poem)
September 22, 2002... Ladies' Holiday Aunt Flo, My redheaded aunt from Red Bank is visiting, so I Can't go swimming. It's raining Down south and it's all Eve's fault I Fell off the roof. I've got the Grannies so give me chocolate. For this...

Joyful sound: an Ani DiFranco concert review.(Concert Review)
September 22, 2002... There is just something about live music that I love. I am addicted to it, really. While I am eager to praise a good studio album as much as anyone, for me nothing compares to the joy of seeing a great live performance. This past year alone I...

Returning for Alex.(Poem)
September 22, 2002... Returning for Alex When I come home from another meeting at which everyone's talked too long, the door is not just unlocked but wide open, so that I could be any stranger climbing these stairs, to prowl the rooms where you...

Interview with Gretchen Tibbits.(feminism and equal opportunity)(Interview)
September 22, 2002... Does a glass ceiling exist? Are there problems? Yeah, it's out there. What better way to break through the proverbial "glass ceiling" than simply to ignore its imposing presence? That's what former president of the National Association for...

Flowers and me.(Short Story)
September 22, 2002... This was my childhood. I had fun just being a little kid. I was five years old and good at making up games. I would organize other kids on the block, who were all looking for fun things to counter the boredom. One time my girlfriend Angie...

Indian summer with John Ashbery.(Poem)
September 22, 2002... The music composed by my mother's laughter pivots on a self-induced trance like sleep. We sit in the shadow of Daniel Boone's statue, and I start getting this feeling of exaltation. If Dan were alive, he'd have little respect for so tame a...

Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut. (Book Reviews 2002).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... By Emily White New York: Scribner's, 2002 Think fast! What was the name of your high school slut? What entire athletic team was she rumored to have favored? Chances are, these answers spring to your lips faster than you thought she was...

Venus Envy: A Sensational Season Inside the Women's Tennis Tour. (Book Reviews 2002).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... By L. Jon Wertheim New York: HarperCollins, 2001 It's a common malady among those who consider themselves feminists: to be optimistic and hopeful for social change (which we should be), but in situation after situation to be...

Disciplining Feminism: From Social Activism to Academic Discourse. (Book Reviews 2002).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... By Ellen Messer-Davidow Durham: Duke University Press, 2002 The institutes which the feminist movement set out to change, Disciplining Feminism argues, have ultimately transformed feminism. As the social-change-oriented...

Heartbreak: The Political Memoirs of a Feminist Militant. (Book Reviews 2002).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... By Andrea Dworkin New York: Basic Books, 2002 From Philly to South Jersey, Judaism to Plato, atomic bombs to pacifism, from Greece to Amsterdam, prison to pornography--Andrea Dworkin invites the reader to listen to her incredible life...

Self-titled EP: Yeah Yeah Yeahs. (Cd Reviews 2002).(Sound Recording Review)
September 22, 2002... "Indie" rock paradoxically became this past year's over-exposed craze as scenesters rushed to crop their prior year's bleached raver spikes to shaggy carpet-colored (or for the super-hip, jet black) mops, and bombard vintage stores to replace...

Voyage to India: India.Arie. (Cd Reviews 2002).(Sound Recording Review)
September 22, 2002... Although very much a part of the Neo Soul Movement, India.Arie is not from the traditional Philly-based crowd. This Atlanta-based singer/songwriter draws an audience with her guitar and passionate outlook on the world. In her 2001 debut...

Noise.(Short Story)
September 22, 2002... She should have known from day one that something would go wrong. JJ might have seen it coming, on instinct at least, as she lugged her belongings up to the studio apartment over the Remblays' garage and happened to turn her head toward the...

Say what?(feminist quotations)
September 22, 2002... A pedestal is as much a prison as any other small space. Gloria Steinem One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. Mario...